FrazzledDad

UPDATED: It’s now December, 2010 and I’ve got another open position on my team! Everything below still applies. Contact info is at the bott...

Tom DeMarco, author of the seminal book Peopleware has written a short, interesting article Software Engineering, An Idea Whose Time has Co...

I’ve got a number of upcoming speaking gigs through September: 23 July. Three Tips to Improve Your Development Process , Dayton .NET De...

Beautiful Security , ed. by Andy Oram and John Vega, ISBN 0596527489, published by O’Reilly. Like O’Reilly’s Beautiful Teams , this book’...

The Nomadic Developer by Aaron Erickson, published by Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-321-60639-6. If you’re in the software consulting business, ...

The Manga Guide to Physics by Hideo Nitta and Keita Takatsu. Published by No Starch Press, ISBN-10: 1593271964. This book is an awfully fu...

The Economics of Iterative Software Development, by Walker Royce, et. al., published by Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0321509358. This is a lean b...

Last night I gave my “Three Tips to Improve Your Process” talk at at the Cincinnati Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) . There were...

Beautiful Teams, by Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene. Published by O’Reilly, ISBN 0596518021. This book’s a good read and a nice add...

Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management by Scott Berkun, pub. O’Reilly, ISBN 0596517718. This book’s been enjoyable and useful...

Implementing Automated Software Testing by Elfriede Dustin, Thom Carrett, Bernie Gauf. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0321580516. This book isn’t f...

Normally I don’t use my blog as a venue for job postings, but this one’s for a rather unique opportunity. My wife works for Syracuse Resea...

Following the neat idea of the Columbus Code & Coffee , Chris Schroll , Derek Hubbard , and I are going to meet up at the Panera Bread a...

I’m a big fan of retrospectives for teams. Retrospectives smooth out bumps in your team’s environment and it gives everyone a sense they’ve ...

For some time I’ve been giving Jeff Blankenburg , our region’s Microsoft Developer Evangelist, a good-natured ribbing over the lack of tests...

I’ve spent some time over the last month fooling around with using Cucumber to write some acceptance tests for bits and pieces of the next ...

Problem: The “Test With” menu from TestDriven.NET isn’t showing up in Visual Studio’s context menu when you’re right-clicking in a test fi...

Last night I posed the question on Twitter: Aside from ReSharper, what are your favorite add ons for Visual Studio?  Below are the respons...

The Art of Lean Software Development by Curt Hibbs, et. al. Published by O’Reilly, ISBN 0596517319. This is a concise work weighing in at...

Mike Wood has the registration open for the Central Ohio Day of .NET ! The event’s on 18 April at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, smack ...