Getting Teams to Deliver Predictably
As recently as this week, I’ve been involved in conversations with customers about how we can help make their teams deliver more... more »
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Escape Process’ Death Valley, or How to Tell a Cat From a Washing Machine
More and more leading edge thinkers are starting to focus on this dichotomy of approaches – organic vs mechanical. Each rightly has it’s... more »
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Using Peer Code Reviews as a Professional Development Tool
Over the years, I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of developers. Overall, I have found them to be intelligent, witty,... more »
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Domain Events with Ninject and ASP.Net Web API
How to hook up domain events to concrete implementations using Ninject as an IoC container and the ASP.Net Web API.
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Daniel Cook on 8 Laws of Productivity
Daniel Cook has a great PDF on the 8 Laws of Productivity. The subtitle is “8 Productivity Experiments You Don’t Need to Repeat.”... more »
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Top 5 Cucumber best practices
Once you get started with Cucumber, the question is how to write your features. How can you keep your features maintainable so you don’t... more »
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Pair Programming Benefits: Part 2 - The Rest
When last we spoke, I discussed some of the pleasant discoveries that I had in my initial pair programming outings. In this post,... more »
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On GC in Games
To summarize: no mainstream language does this “right”. What you want is a language that’s memory safe, but without relegating every... more »
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7 Agile Best Practices that you Don't Need to Follow
There are lots of good ideas and practices in Agile development, ideas that really work. But there are several common best practices that... more »
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The Strangler Pipeline: Winning over Hearts and Minds by Steve Smith (Podcast)
Continuous Delivery is not just about automation - it's also about persuading people to adopt a revolutionary mindset. But how do you... more »
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RPC over WebSockets
Wouldn’t be cool to use WebSockets as a transport for an RPC mechanism? Imagine if you can make any request to a server in your... more »
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Andy and Okra is your Windows 8 App Store MVVM app building supercharger
Today's Modern Monday project by Andrew Wilkinson is one of those kinds of projects that makes me love developers.
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SFML
SFML provides a simple interface to the various components of your PC, to ease the development of games and multimedia applications. It... more »
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Loadtests for the Real World
The gold standard for systems performance measurement is a load test, which is a deterministic process of putting a demand on a system to... more »
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Abstractions
I remember back when Delphi came out. It was a revolutionary product, no doubt, but it added a high amount of abstraction to the development stack.
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Top 5 Tips & Tricks for Surviving TechEd 2013
On Sunday, June 2nd, I will depart for TechEd North America held in New Orleans, LA. It is a four day event starting on June 3rd thru the... more »
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The soul of Kinect For Windows Interactions from Soul Solutions
Today is is like a six for one deal day where we highlight a series of articles from Soul Solutions about our favorite hardware device... more »
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Under the Hood: The natural language interface of Graph Search
The Graph Search engine is built upon highly structured data in the form of a graph, representing hundreds of types of nodes and... more »
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XBOX, XAML/C++, Direct2, Direct3, scalable, repeatable and immersive art form game engines
Cool stuff about the Xbox launch. You will need to stick with my blog as I show you how to work with C++ and Direct2 or Direct 3.
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Image Processing toolkit for .NET framework using C++ AMP
Manipulation of images is an excellent scenario for GPU computation. Apart from Aviary, we were pleased to know that PrecisionImage.NET... more »
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