DLINQ - Hibernate with Microsoft flavor
I have read somethings about the
LINQ-project
at Microsoft. I haven’t fully understood it yet but from this
video
i see that it’s really cool.
Also - as i understand it - this could be a way to build Hibernate-like
functionality with Microsoft products… for anyone who like that ;)
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SCRUM - an nice overview
Have been
reading up on SCRUM and found some nice articles and presentations.
This is an
overview
from a company that apparently has developed a Add-in for Visual Studio
Team System to use on SCRUM-projects, but don’t mind that but focus on
the important stuff about SCRUM instead.
Here’s another good introduction site: http://www.scrum-master.com/,
especially check out Ken Schwabers top ten tips
Coming from the RUP-methodology i like the presentation but i also
realise that this a bit against the whole “agile”-concept. In short - i
like it.
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Visual Studio tips and tricks
I am always interested in finding stuff that simplifies my day-to-day
use of computer software. I love shortcuts and macros or rather i hate
doing repetitive stuff that just is boring and tedious…
Here is an great article about shortcuts in Visual Studio
2005
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One Easter - coming up
On my way to work today i noticed that the Easter was initiated in
the windows of the shops i passed. This is a discussion you don’t hear
so often; the shops starting Easter earlier and earlier each year. I
mean the same is said for Christmas … wonder why.
Anyhow - these times are always hectic and this year is no exception;
40 years jubilee for the Vasa Corps
Concert with brass band
A lot of different meetings and committees
etc
But - as always - most of these are fun things to do so i am not that
worried. Besides - spring is in the air. There is something about the
light and air this time of the year that fills you with hope, like “you
know what? We just might make it to summer. Again”
Have a good one - peace out.
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Free books and presentations on Agile stuff
Found the site InfoQ (do NOT mix this with
AvenueQ) that contains some very good
articles, presentations and even books about agile development and
related stuff. Have up to now just seen and read some parts but it all
looks very promising.
Here are my shortlist so far:
Book on Domain Driven
Design
Great OOP
presentation
Visual Studio tips and
tricks
This will be often visited by me in the future. I promise…
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Agile?
During the last months i have snowed in on Agile development. I don’t really know why i first started to look at it but i think it has to do with that all the problems that agile methods claims to solve they always state in the outset of the description of the method. For example: Does the requirements often change in your project? Would you like a system that improved in quality over time? Is your system hard to test? Is it hard to predict how long time or how big a change in your system is? … and more of the same kind… It’s all very “selly” and provocative but i have actually ran into most of these points in projects, recent and distant. Altogether this force me into looking into it more which probably (and hopefully) will reflect on the blog. Here is a quite annoying but also...
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Traffic in Russia
If you ever
are in Russia… in St Petersburg… please take the
bus. This is one of the crossings in the town.
No lights. No stop-signs. No speed limit. Looks pretty
dangerous. Or like Borat says: to drive like that
“.. is like giving gun to monkey. Very Dangerous! “
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Gambling...
The
last posts has been a bit boring… Sorry, i mean technical. So here is
something maybe a little more refreshing.
Mr Kenny Rogers is the great country star of USA (or the world maybe).
And apparently The Gambler is his great hits. This version is with
Muppets and is quite sweet…
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Great article - humble Marcus
Found this article on Agile Software Development and it made me realize two thing that humbled me: I haven’t done to much of Agile development. And reading this article makes me sad… This thoughts that agile development base the whole development process on is solution to many of the problems that i have encountered in different projects. I have even said and been the guys that mr Folwer talks about as “the old, bureaucratic engineering” developers. Brrr - sends shivers down my spine when i think about it :) The .NET community is a bit behind… or in any case can only harvest the good ideas invented by the Java-community. This article is written 2000! And! in it he talks about these methodologies as they have been around for some year. But then again - isn’t this what it is all about. Get some new idea, try it out, adapt...
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Art down below
Found this site http://www.istadensspar.se/.
Apparently this is a guy that used to drive a subway train in Stockholm
underground who got tired of getting the same question all of the time;
“what does it look like in the tunnels?”. So he brought his camera and
took some pretty amazing pictures.
The pictures on the site is just a small selection of the pictures in
the book but very very nice. The book will probably be bought and placed
on a future coffetable…
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