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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.
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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
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I will be presenting two sessions at the Richmond Code Camp tomorrow: Refactoring This will be a walkthrough of the Martin Fowler example but in C# (thanks to our very own, Bryant Smith who converted it to C# some time back). We will also get in to why,
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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
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Google's new Trends service (which appears to be the old Zeitgeist but now on demand) allows you to find out what people are searching on. I tried it with a number of different Microsoft agile terms and was surprised at the results: It is only a relative
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In our last round of hiring, I had a great response from my blog post so I am trying it again. We are looking for another top calibre developer to join our team - this is a great opportunity to practice agile techniques on the Microsoft .NET platform
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Over the last few months, I have presented a session on Pair Programming to two User Groups ( WinProTeam Rockville and PA FoxPro ) and one Code Camp ( Richmond this last weekend). I especially enjoy presenting this topic for a number of reasons: It is
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I will be presenting on two topics at the Richmond Code Camp on 4/22/2006. The event starts at 8:30AM and runs all day. If you have never been to a Code Camp before, you are missing out. They are a great place to ask questions and find out about technology
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Unfortunately the speaker for March is unable to make it so I have been asked if I would present this month instead of later this year. I will be presented on Pair Programming at the Potomax Area FoxPro Users Group on Thursday 2nd March 2006 in Fairfax,
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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
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I was recently interviewed by Judith Dinowitz in this article from FusionAuthority . The interview came about after I blogged about my experiences presenting TDD at our local Maryland Cold Fusion User Group . Jonathan Cogley is the CEO and founder of
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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
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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
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One of the problems that we come across as our projects mature is that the number of tests increase and so do test suite times. It seems inevitable ... something like the sun setting in the west and the CPU speed doubling every few years. The obvious
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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
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