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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.

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

.NET, Agile, News, Technology .NET, CodeStock

Let’s talk about Microsoft. Let’s talk about how we feel about Microsoft.

Large. Prevailing. Controlling? Invasive. Driving. Organized.

They come across as a large organization that wants to impress you with its largeness and organizationess. They will do what it takes to make their products needed or required.

What about Google? Let’s talk about how we feel about Google.

Now, I don’t really mind that Google is a large controlling, all-invasive, monopoly-wannabe. I have warm fuzzy thoughts about Google. I don’t use everything they make but I try just about everything they put out.

Google is the kid in my neighborhood that made it big. He set out to do something really well and did it. Even at the top, he still has some of that underdog charm.

But what’s the real difference between Microsoft and Google? Impression, mostly. They both have critical, pervasive primary products. Both have scores of emerging products with lots of promise. My impression of them is different. For Microsoft, it’s as if they went about their business growing it, expanding it, doing whatever it took to make them #1 without really thinking about how they were being perceived.

Perception is reality. Well, not really, but you know what I mean.

Technology Google, Microsoft

Just got my hands on the new book Silverlight 2 In Action by Chad Campbell and John Stockton and will be publishing a review soon.

Hopefully I’ll be able to show off the Silverlight site I’m working on while reading this book.

Technology .NET, Silverlight