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• Rare Company or a Persuasive Man?

  Troy mentioned in a comment on my previous post on ASP.NET MVC and Agile that I must be in a rare company, or I must be a lucky or persuasive man. There is certainly an aspect of truth to both those observations. It is certainly nothing out of the ordinary... Posted Aug 14 2008, 07:36 AM by Casey Charlton with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Practices and Principles, Rants, Architecture, Featured

• ADO .NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence

  Instead of repeating amongst us why the Entity Framework concerns us, an open letter has been written to hopefully persuade Microsoft to reconsider the Entity Framework, or at least some major aspects of it. To save me repeating it, here is what Dave... Posted Jun 24 2008, 08:02 AM by Casey Charlton with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Practices and Principles, Rants, .NET, Architecture

• Is Alt.net Duplicitous?

  Roy makes a number of accusations about the Alt.net community, particularly centred around their espoused ideals clashing with their comments and blogs. I respect Roy greatly, his blog was one of my first real sources for great TDD information, and he... Posted May 21 2008, 10:54 AM by Casey Charlton with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Practices and Principles, TDD, Mocking, Rants, Architecture, Featured

• What Determines High Quality Code?

  Code quality is an abstract concept again, and can be defined may ways depending on how you perceive quality. A good discussion of the many aspects of code quality can be found on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_quality Some general... Posted May 16 2008, 02:59 PM by Casey Charlton with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Practices and Principles, Agile, Rants, Architecture

• Statistics and How They Lie

  Industry experience suggests that the design of metrics will encourage certain kinds of behaviour from the people being measured. The common phrase applied is "you get what you measure" (or "be careful what you wish for"). A Brief... Posted May 16 2008, 10:49 AM by Casey Charlton with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Practices and Principles, Agile, Rants, Architecture

• Lines of Code as a Measure of Progress

  Some reports will highlight lines of code as a figure to attach some relevance to, and these become measures used to establish progress. These are possibly the most misleading figures to use, in fact almost always within a well designed application and... Posted May 16 2008, 09:51 AM by Casey Charlton with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Practices and Principles, Agile, Rants, Architecture

• Measuring Progress

  "Working software is the primary measure of progress" Fundamentally, there is no more valid measure for progress, than the working software itself. This only leaves open to discussion, the definition of "working software". Defining... Posted May 15 2008, 09:48 AM by Casey Charlton with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Practices and Principles, Agile, Rants, Architecture

• The Only Certainty is Change

  I got an email at the end of last week from a developer asking about Agile development. It highlights a few problems with development in general, and with Agile as a "badge of honour" that are worth exploring. It deserved a fairly detailed reply... Posted May 14 2008, 07:08 AM by Casey Charlton with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Practices and Principles, Agile, Rants, Architecture

• How to Make Late Software, Even Later

  I'll start by quoting Brooks Law , as no doubt you expect me to: Brooks's law is a principle in software development which says that "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" . It was coined by Fred Brooks in his 1975... Posted May 08 2008, 08:39 AM by Casey Charlton with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: Practices and Principles, Rants, Architecture