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Investment in your developers

May 11, 2009

It is far too common that companies are not investing enough in their coders, and I don’t mean strictly monetary compensation.  Developers need to learn and network with other developers about new projects, technologies and methodologies in order to stay fresh and current.  Developers need to know that they’re not alone in their concerns, and [...]

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Investment in a process

May 9, 2009

There is definitely such a thing as having too much process in a development cycle, and, of course, conversely there is definitely such as thing as having too little process.
I like to surround myself with people (well, mostly developers) that believe that a little time investing in a lean process goes a long way. Let’s [...]

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Rolling my own blog engine, part 1

May 8, 2009

So I’ve been rolling my own blog engine just for the learning experience, and the plan was to use it to host this portfolio site.  Once I got into the code, I realized how much I wanted to get out of it, and the feature set was large, so, I stepped back, and took my [...]

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Development tools that I use

May 8, 2009

I feel that sometimes the presenter’s development tools that they’re using has been overlooked in screencasts, or other tutorials that I read, so, I thought I’d get it out of the way right now.
For my day to day development, I use the following common tools/addins to help speed up my coding time:

ReSharper 4.5

From adding using [...]

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So, here we are…

May 7, 2009

So I’ve decided to create another blog to add to my current collection (iworkwithcomputers.com, oneof.us), but I was hoping to do something different this time, aside from being vain about the domain name. I wanted to create a portfolio site, of sorts. Something to catalog my developer side, such as highlighting projects I’ve worked [...]

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