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Author Archives: James Thigpen
Retrospectives and Appreciations
So I had a career milestone today, and I’m more than a little proud. I facilitated (with a great deal of help from the fabulous Olivia Zinn) a retrospective covering what we’ve done since the last CheezCon (CheezCon being the … Continue reading
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Agent of Change: Show, Don’t Tell.
At the Alt.Net Seattle, there was lots of talk of being an “Agent of Change”, an activist in your organization, evangelizing “The Way” where “The Way” is a whole truckload of TLA’s (Three Letter Acronyms) such as TDD, DDD, IoC, … Continue reading
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I don’t like WordPress. This has been documented somewhere in this blog. I’m too lazy to link it. Some other people don’t like WordPress either sometimes. I was just bitten by that same caching issue. You see, I had made … Continue reading
External Dependencies and You
I’m having a lot of problems with external dependencies lately. Especially with Castle Project. It’s not because Castle Project is bad. I think it’s more because Visual Studio is stupid. Visual Studio basically encourages people to put all their external … Continue reading
ALT.NET Seattle
So, I know ALT.NET Seattle closed 2 day ago, which, in “Internet/Blogger Time” is approximately 1.5 million years ago, but I want to blog about it anyway. Warning: rambling ahead. Passion. That sums up a great deal of what the … Continue reading
ALT.NET Seattle
I will be attending ALT.NET Seattle. The list of people that will be there are amazing! I’m so excited to be around so many amazing people. I’m going to be star struck! And I get to see Ben, too! Go … Continue reading
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Principles of Software Design: DQK
Design is important. Quality is paramount. Kittens are adorable.
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Delegate Covariance
Once again I slam into a VB.NET2005 limitation I’m told is fixed in 2008. 2008 sounds pretty hot. Again, this post derives from adventures in Newsgroupland! Here is what I was trying to do: Public Class Part End Class Public … Continue reading
Implementing and Overriding Read Only Properties
Ok enough crazy posts about divine design beings shining down on me from up on high. That’s what too much caffeine on an empty stomach does to a person! So I’m beginning to hate VB.NET. Yup. There, I said it. … Continue reading
Resharper
Ok, so I know the blog-o-sphere is covered with these kinds of posts, but I just had to say how amazed I am with ReSharper. It’s amazing! In a way it’s not really amazing at how much ReSharper does, it’s … Continue reading