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Organizational Debt or Ignorance
Welcome back, it’s 2008, the weather sucks and I’m more bitter then ever. I will try to blog in a smaller scale at least once a month during 2008 and I’m starting the year with slapping all my...
View ArticleBlog? What Blog?!
Hello.Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home?-- Pink FloydFrom what Google tells me no one actually reads this, which is fair since I don't actually write anything...
View ArticleWe All Make Misstakes
EDIT 2012.04.28: I have removed all the old post completely. If you want to read them drop me an e-mail and I'll happily send you a copy.We all make mistakes and we will never be able to prevent that....
View ArticleThe Importance of Deadlines
Usually the word deadline sends a chill down everyone’s spine. Maybe this is because it contains the word dead or maybe we all just have bad memories from deadlines gone south.However deadlines are...
View ArticleIt's Not the Face, It's the Brain
Finally we have a new layout.I spent about a week messing about with the layout of this blog. It was a really painstaking flashback of PHP, HTML and CSS all mangled into each other and intertwined.Last...
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Estimating in Trees, Probing the Unknown
One of the biggest problems for me ever since i started doing professional software development has been estimation.Back in the dark ages we used to get a huge spec and spend a couple of weeks going...
View ArticleSave Time with Test / Source Toggling Macro
For the past 2-3 years all the development I have been doing has been test driven. I don't really want to count how many hours I have spent looking for corresponding test file / source file.Last week I...
View ArticleWhy You Will Never Get Rich by Consulting
There is a know fallacy in consulting as a business model. The idea of charging someone a fix sum of money for an hour of labor can only be profitable until you run out of time to sell.If you run a...
View ArticleUsing Syntax Fairy Dust to BDD with NUnit
A project that I'm currently involved in is leaning more towards the BDD style syntax of writing tests. We decided to use NUnit instead of any of the spec frameworks out there because NUnit has a large...
View ArticleNew Beginnings
As some of you know I have taken a leave of absence from work. I'll be away from "proper" work for 3 months, but this doesn't mean I won't work.I will use the next 3 months to work on project Mindhex....
View ArticleAdmitting Defeat
As hard as it may be to admit; I have failed miserably.About 3 months ago I set out on a journey into independence. I named it project Mindhex. The basic idea was that I would give myself free hands to...
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Getting Back on the Blog Wagon (again)
I'm back on the blog wagon with an old/new blog. I had to close down my blog for a couple of months because it got hacked due to me not updating WordPress frequently enough. In the process of...
View ArticleThe Secret of the Polyglot Programmer
"Polyglot (person), someone who uses many languages" --Wikipedia A while back I had an idea about something I called the Software Developer Tool Belt. Basically the idea states that every problem is...
View ArticleWhy I Really Don't Care If You Have .NET On Your Resume
This post started as a reply to "CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire .NET programmers" by David over on the Expensify blog but it got so large that I decided to turn it into a blog post instead.I work at...
View ArticleHello World in IronRuby - The Macho Way
Those of you who know me know that I'm a big Ruby fan. I've been doing as much Ruby as I can squeeze in for the past 6 years, which hasn't been that much since I usually get paid for doing .NET (C# /...
View ArticleInstalling IronRuby from Source on Mono
This whole thing started as an effort to get IronRuby on board the rvm train. I started looking around for documentation on how to build/install IronRuby from source with Mono but the blogs and...
View ArticleThird Time's the Charm
"Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not."--Virgil ThomsonI saw this...
View ArticleKill the Goat
Yesterday I was at the regional finals of EY Entrepreneur of the Year to support my long time friend and partner in business Deniz Yildirim. Deniz managed to snag the “Male Rising Star of the Year”...
View ArticleDon't Jump the Gun on Criticism
Earlier this year I wrote a blog post on our company blog about one of our core values "Challenge the World". This is not only one of our company values but something I have been subscribing to myself...
View ArticleWhy You Should Talk To Strangers
After I attended Euruko 2011 I got an idea for a talk; a talk that was about developers just getting along. I knew this would be a really hard topic to sell so I wrapped it up in a nice package with...
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