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Continuous Integration Signs

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

And I thought our Hulk Hogan sign was cool…

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Ruby on Rails

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Since I have a long weekend due to the holidays, I thought I would spend some time getting familiar with ruby on rails. RoR just came out with version 2.0 this past month and pretty much all tutorials and resources are centered around previous versions and a lot has changed. RoR is built around the […]

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Application Naming

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Yesterday I learned a very important lesson when naming a new application.  Make sure you say it three times fast to make sure you won’t end up in the HR office once it is released.
Often, in Agile Software Development, teams practice continuous integration(CI).  Often one person becomes the guru regarding CI  and is referred to as the Build […]

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Scrum with TFS

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

     Last week I attended my first VSTS (Visual Studio Team System) user group in Minneapolis with Adam, the product manager of my team.  It was a very small group.  There were only about 5-7 people and 4 pizzas.  There was definitely enough to go around.  I think the group was just small because the […]

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SCRUM with TFS

Monday, April 30th, 2007

At code camp this past weekend I was given a brochure that contained user groups and classes that take place in twin cities area.  I notice that there was a VSTS (Visual Studio Team System) user group.  I thought I would check out there site tonight.  While doing so I noticed that the next event […]

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Twin Cities Code Camp

Monday, April 30th, 2007

This past Saturday I attended the second Twin Cities Code Camp with a few members on my team.   I was very impressed with this event and best of all, it was free.  Some presentations were better than others and some were more useful than others.  I am very excited for Code Camp III.  Hopefully there will […]

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Insert Code Feature

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

So maybe everyone has this feature in their blog software, but this is the first time I have seen this since I am new to the blogging scene.  There is a feature in BlogEngine that allows you to insert code  into your post.  It parses out C#, J#, VB.NET, T-SQL and ASPX.  Pretty Sweet!  So testing […]

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