Jonathan Cogley

Verify 2006 Conference: Day One (arrived)

Thycotic is sponsoring our first ever vendor booth at the Verify 2006 Conference in Crystal City, VA (Washington DC Metro Area). The conference is all about testing, testing frameworks and tools but from a quality assurance and developer perspective. Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 7:51 AM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

Richmond Code Camp 2 : review

At 5:00am on Saturday morning, I headed in to downtown DC to get some prizes and a few books from the Thycotic office. Then off to collect Ryan Olshan at 5:30, and John Morales at 5:45. We hit 95 and headed south for Richmond. The drive was uneventful Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 7:16 AM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

What motivates software developers?

Developers who simply work for a paycheck have different priorities so I am going to ask you to forget about them for a minute. If you joined software development out of pure passion for the industry then you have a different agenda. Building software Read More...

Posted Monday, May 15, 2006 2:59 AM by jonathan.cogley | 1 Comments

Building and deploying applications with NAnt and MSBuild in Vienna, Virginia

I will be presenting at the WinProTeam Vienna .NET Users Group on 3/1/2006 at 6pm. We use NAnt and CruiseControl.NET for all of our products and client projects. The power of a continuous build for improved quality, rapid feedback and engaging your customer Read More...

Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 6:46 AM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

Refactoring is not free (so defer it)

Paul Gielens has an interesting post discussing the cost of refactoring and deciding when to do so. I agree with Paul that refactoring is certainly not free and is in fact a very expensive process since it lacks one of the central benefits of Test Driven Read More...

Posted Sunday, December 04, 2005 11:12 AM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

Summer Internship in Software Development with TDD and .NET

This is an opportunity to get incredible work experience with hardcore .NET consultants defining the current state of the art in Agile .NET development. A Thycotic Summer Internship in Software Development will allow you to work on interesting projects Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 12:59 PM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

Tag based languages - ColdFusion, CFUnit, mind shifts ... and TDD.

Earlier this week, I presented at the Maryland Cold Fusion Users Group on Test Driven Development (TDD). Let's get this straight, I had never used ColdFusion before and I happily installed it at 8:30pm the night before the presentation. I was really presenting Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 9:23 AM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

Is Lean an easier sell than Agile or Extreme?

Last Thursday (7/14/2005), Mary Poppendieck was hosted by a local consulting company ( Sphere of Influence ) and spoke on Lean Software Development . The session was fascinating and presented a new spin on many of the familiar Agile topics. Tom (Mary's Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 1:43 AM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments

Jonathan's blog is here.

Jonathan's blog is here . Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 07, 2005 10:26 PM by jonathan.cogley | 0 Comments