December 2008
Environmental Constraints, Business Requirements, and Implementation Details
Environmental constraints often play a big part in an application's architecture. Although we like to pretend the slate is wide open with possibilities for implementing users requests, it would be naïve to ignore the technical, political, and user environment constraints always present on any decent size project....
May 2008
Living for Hope in Fear of the F Bomb
Einstein said it: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."
February 2008
Get Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System FREE from Microsoft
In order to get people up to speed on Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategy, Microsoft is offering a free copy of the book Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System.
Cool Links IV- .NET 3.5, Architecture, AJAX, UML, EPF, Patterns, GOF, VSTS 2008, WPF, Silverlight, SQL 2008, XAML
This is the fourth installment of cool links. It includes links on .NET 3.5, Architecture, AJAX, UML, EPF, Patterns, GOF, VSTS 2008, WPF, Silverlight, SQL 2008, XAML, SPARX EA, Visio, Seam Carving, New Books, FXCop, etc.
January 2008
The delusions of an unreal deadline and its deliverables.
Using deadlines as an excuse to skip doing proper architecture and design is just that, an excuse. It is not a reason.
September 2007
Microsoft Office Visio 2007 WBS Modeler
Although I never use Visio anymore, I found this tool pretty cool. It adds a new dimension to those giant project plans my project managers like to create.
