Please vote for Scrumr!
In my spare time, I’ve been working on an open source project management tool called Scrumr. Scrumr is a lightweight app for managing sprints per Scrum methodology. You can find out more about the...
View ArticleIt’s Official – Scrumr is #2!
A huge thank you to everyone who voted for Scrumr in the Community Coding Contest– were #2 by two votes. The #1 project was CCConfig, and given the growing interest in agile development methodologies,...
View ArticleDevTeach, Day 0
Preconferences started today, but today was my travel day. Just the usual–circling Philadelphia for over 30 minutes, then a mad sprint to the flight to Montreal. I barely made the plane, but my...
View ArticleDev Teach, Day 1
Keynote was a thoughtful talk by Ted Neward of Thoughworks. Ted say’s we’re in a perfect storm of development due to the emergence of tools, virtualization, processors and something else I couldn’t...
View ArticleDevTeach, Day 2
I’m in Markus Egger’s (Pubisher of CoDE Magazine) “Intro to Silverlight” talk, and he just dropped the bombshell that the next version of Silverlight will support out-of-browser experiences! In 2.0,...
View ArticleDevTeach, Day 3
Today I got to meet Nitin, publisher of the awesome and free cheat sheets at http://www.refcardz.com/. All free PDF downloads, covering a range of topics. They’re introducing 12 new .NET cards next...
View ArticleDevTeach Post Con, Entity Framework with Julie Lerman
Umm, yeah. That could turn into a conference unto itself. After you run through the little wizard, you have something pretty easy to use, but under the covers, it’s amazing how much functionality and...
View ArticleDevTeach wrap-up
I can’t believe I’ve been back for a week, this week has been a blur. I have to say thank you to the Montreal .NET Community, JS Tougas, Eric Moreau and Guy Barrette in particular. JS was my personal...
View ArticleAn Unofficial Guide to CodeMash
Preface: Be excellent to each other. Please, just be excellent to each other, and have a good time. In the last few years, I’ve been a sponsor/exhibitor/speaker/attendee at CodeMash, and it truly...
View ArticleHow to buy tickets for CodeMash
CodeMash is a very, very popular conference—demand for tickets far exceeds supply. CodeMash sells out in minutes, and try as they might, the organizers simply can’t make everyone happy, nor assure...
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