Rework is ok. Refactoring is ok. BDUF (Big Design Up Front) is bad. Minimal amount to get to market is good. Getting to market is good. Don’t get into analysis paralysis. Best book that cleanly cuts to the chase I’ve read in a long while: Rework …and a few friendly reminder videos I really can’t... Continue reading →

I’m a huge advocate for high quality code. I will admit I don’t always get to write, or am always able to write high quality code. But day in and out I make my best effort at figuring out the best way to write solid, high quality, easy to maintain, easy to read code. Over... Continue reading →

Social media, albeit being a great boon in many regards, has also become a massive time suck for almost everyone involved! Sure, news is up to date, down the the minute, almost real-time with every single little bit of craziness there to read about right now! The t0-read, to-do, to-make, to-code lists all keep getting... Continue reading →

I’ve been using the 1.3 SDK now for about a week. I have one single machine that can deploy an ASP.NET MVC Application to Windows Azure. The other 32 bit machine and 64 bit machine do not, fail pretty much every time I do a build on them. This is how it looks so far.... Continue reading →

I’ve been having oodles of deployment issues with Windows Azure lately ever since upgrading to the 1.3 SDK. It seems on one machine (which is 32-bit) when I do a build and deploy it appears to word. On my 64-bit machine with a COMPLETELY clean load of Win 7 and VS 2010 + the Windows... Continue reading →