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Infecting a team with Agile: Part 3: Educating Management

By jonezy | Published: November 25, 2009
In part 2 of the series we reviewed some ways to bring an inexperienced development team up to speed on some of the core concepts and fundamentals of agile. This week we will talk about the same topic but with a different target audience. Management. Now a good friend of mine, and colleague that I learned [...]
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Infecting a team with agile “Part 2″ – Education

By jonezy | Published: November 11, 2009
In part one of the series I covered some of the preparation I had to go through to start on the journey of getting my new team infected with agile. Things have been going ok, there are some improvements to some of the tools I would like to see, but hey that’s the point right? If it doesn’t [...]
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Infecting a team with Agile: Part 1 – Preparation

By jonezy | Published: November 6, 2009
One of the core tenants of agile is: “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools” But anyone that has done any work in an agile shop knows that to achieve many of the goals of agile you need to have certain types of tools in place to facilitate the process.  This past week I have been preparing [...]
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Infecting a team with agile

By jonezy | Published: November 4, 2009
Part of what I’m doing at my job is getting the development practices we use internally up to date.  Previous to my current job i worked at a company that went through adopting agile as it’s primary development practice.  The result was a fantastic working environment and that is my goal here, to create a [...]
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Connecting to different database on the fly using Subsonic 2.x

By jonezy | Published: November 3, 2009
Recently I started working on a project at work that requires me to connect to more then a single database at a time (different parts of the app connecting to different databases at the same time). I figured this should be pretty straight forward, Subsonic is relatively mature and should probably support this out [...]
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subsonic won’t update my bit field?

By jonezy | Published: October 28, 2009
I recently ran into a really strange problem while using SubSonic.  I had a bit column in my database that was set to not allow nulls and had a default value of false.  Pretty standard stuff in the world of database design I guess. When it came time to start saving my entities to the database, [...]
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xcopy won’t copy .css files

By jonezy | Published: October 20, 2009
I use xcopy as part of a build script to copy a bunch of files and directories from a subversion checkout directory to another directory so that I can zip them and upload them to a server. I have an exclude file that I use to tell xcopy to ignore files like the obj directory and [...]
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If your gonna fuck up, do it early

By jonezy | Published: October 15, 2009
I’ve worked in the online industry for the last 12 years or so, one thing above all else I’ve learned in my time in this industry You are going to fuck it up Now I use the phrase “fuck it up” in place of fail for effect, for impact, ya know if this was a power point [...]
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Building new features makes sense!

By jonezy | Published: October 13, 2009
But spending an insane amount of time upfront without ever having tested or planning said feature doesn’t make sense at all. If you are going to spend time working on new features, don’t spend time on planning what you think might work. Build something quickly and let your users decide on how it should work. You [...]
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ASP Menu controls aren’t rendering correctly in google chrome

By jonezy | Published: September 29, 2009
“ASP Menu controls aren’t rendering correctly in google chrome” I did a search for this exact phrase about a month ago to solve a quirky problem that I encountered while using the built in asp:menu control that was introduced with version 2.0 of the framework. I could go into a long explanation of how difficult it was [...]
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