FrazzledDad

In case you’re looking for me on Twitter, I’m not. Twitter turned in to a massive time sink for me (and I didn’t have time to sink in the ...

Hard disks are cheap and greatly ease the past pain of having to manage free space, but that’s not the case for me: I have a small-ish Cruci...

Problem: After upgrading an ASP.NET site to 4.0 you get HTTP 500 errors with exceptions when Javascript is making web service calls: “Syste...

Your test code is production code. Treat it the same way. Don’t let cruft build up, and follow good software engineering principles – like D...

Want to be part of a team that’s deeply involved in fundamental changes to how a company builds its software? Don’t mind hollering “Sancho! ...

You’re fired up about something, but you need approval to make it happen. Maybe it’s asking for approval to go to a great developers’ confer...

I’ve given my Unit Testing 101 talk several times in the past month or two. I really love this talk because it’s fun to give and it’s obviou...

Managing Humans by Michael Lopp. Published by Apress. ISBN 159059844X. I’m torn by this book. There’s a lot of really useful, interesting...

I’m giving my “Three Tips to Improve Your Development Process” talk tomorrow (Thursday, 7 Oct) at the Cincinnati Programmer’s Guild. This ...

I’ve got a somewhat busy October for speaking! This Thursday (7 Oct) I’ll be talking at the Cincinnati Programmer’s Guild hoste...

A couple weeks ago I drove up to the Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group to give my Intro to Unit Testing talk. The MIGANG crowd is always g...

Congratulations! Your company is doing well enough that you need to find new folks for your growing team. I’ve been on the hiring side of th...

When I started hiring to build up my QA team I took a great idea from a friend who was hiring for her team: give potential candidates a ques...