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Our latest project: Live Election Results for 2010!

November 1st, 2010

That’s right, our latest project turned into a pretty big effort; live election results for the entire US! We’re allowing you to customize which races you want to watch in real-time.

The idea for this project started back in August of 2010 as a simple site to show some local live election results for one county. It was a quick and simple application that worked really well.

In October, we started working on some improvements and decided to expand the scope of the results to cover all U.S. Senate, U.S. House races, and as many states as we could before November 2nd. Oh, and we redesigned the Silverlight UI and added a ton of functionality.

On top of that, the project now includes a mobile web version for the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry devices. And a custom Windows Phone 7 client application with some really advanced features. Not to mention a ton of new really smart high-availability back-end data services.

So, yeah, lots of work and not much sleep. But it’s really awesome and we’re very happy with it. Check it out: Live Election Results for November 2nd 2010.

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CodeStock 2010: Chaos to Awesome

June 28th, 2010

We’ll be posting our notes and slidedeck a bit later, but here are some of the resources we talked about in the presentation.

VisualSVN Server: http://www.visualsvn.com/server/
Ankh SVN (plugin for Visual Studio): http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/

Hudson Continuous Integration: http://hudson-ci.org/

Fitnesse (.NET/SLiM): http://www.fitnesse.org/ and http://www.fitnesse.org/FitNesse.DotNet

You can always message us on twitter @jwcarroll and @benfarmer.

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CodeStock 2010

March 12th, 2010

My good friend Josh Carroll and I have submitted a session to CodeStock about practicing Agile on small software development teams. Sign up and vote for our session!

Chaos to Awesome in 60 minutes / the heart of Agile without all the fluff
Track / Area: Developer / Methodology
Technology: Agile, CI, testing, development processes, tools
General / Specific Experience Level: Beginner / Beginner
Co-Presented with Josh Carroll.
Want to increase visibility, collaboration, and communication in your development process? Striving to ensure higher quality products with rapid feedback cycles? Don’t know where to start?
Our goal is to show you how we use simple tools and practices to work in an agile way – without any fluff. We will cover how we manage our task board and source code; simple continuous integration; unit testing with mocks; design patterns for clean separation of concerns and testability. All in one hour. ‘Cause that’s how we roll.

Chaos to Awesome in 60 minutes / the heart of Agile without all the fluff

Track / Area: Developer / Methodology

Technology: Agile, CI, testing, development processes, tools

General / Specific Experience Level: Beginner / Beginner

Co-Presented with Josh Carroll.

Want to increase visibility, collaboration, and communication in your development process? Striving to ensure higher quality products with rapid feedback cycles? Don’t know where to start?

Our goal is to show you how we use simple tools and practices to work in an agile way – without any fluff. We will cover how we manage our task board and source code; simple continuous integration; unit testing with mocks; design patterns for clean separation of concerns and testability. All in one hour. ‘Cause that’s how we roll.

You can check out all the details on the CodeStock session page.

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