FrazzledDad

Thanks again to the folks who attended my talk on Effective Distributed Teams during the Cincinnati Day of Agile on Saturday. You can fin...

Skype’s Firefox extension gets installed whether you want it to or not. Uncool. This plugin is notoriously unstable and resource hogish. Mor...

Adam Goucher has a great blog post on looking for comment-based code smells in software you’re testing. Every occurrence of //TODO, //HA...

Calling out folks in your organization for things they’ve done and milestones they’ve achieved is not only cheap, it’s a highly effective wa...

Driving Technical Change by Terrence Ryan. Pub by Pragmatic Press. ISBN 1934356603 Having problems convincing your team, organization, co...

The great Cincinnati Day of Agile conference is coming up SOON! I’m honored to have been picked up to give a talk on making distributed t...

Clarity of an API’s intent and behavior is critical when you’re developing an API, be it internal or external. Overloads seem like a sexy wa...

Problem: You’re seeing odd SharePoint exception behavior throwing vague “Unable to evaluate expression because the code is optimized or a n...

Continuing with more reviews I’m horribly overdue on… Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley. Published by Pragmatic Press, ISBN ...

I occasionally need a larger disk in one of my VMWare VMs, and I always forget how to do it. I’m writing this post to save myself time the n...

Problem: Internet Explorer 8 won’t clear out authentication credentials and keeps signing you on to a site with a set of undesired creds. I...

Problem: Your code snippet fomatting in Blogger looks like poo – extra line breaks “helpfully” injected by Blogger leave your snippets with...

Repeatedly typing out msbuild command lines with configuration switches (release, debug) and clean/regular, FTL. Here’s a quick Ruby scrip...

If you want an effective project team, then you need to ensure everyone on the team is able to make the right things happen. This is especia...

It’s been a long time since I’ve written up reviews on anything from my book pile. Here’s an overdue catch up post with short reviews of sev...

Problem: You have the physical files for a Hyper-V virtual machine and you need to convert it to VMWare. (Maybe you’ve downloaded one of Mi...

Problem: In VMWare 6.x and 7.x I constantly run in to the problem where I set the VM to full screen mode and then have the cursor in the VM...

Problem: You get the infamous, unhelpful error message screen in SharePoint 2010 (“Click here to troubleshoot problems with SharePoint Foun...

CodeMash 2011 is in the can and I’m mostly recovered after a weekend at the Kalahari and several naps yesterday. Behind the scenes we orga...

Thanks to Joe Fiorini , I have an awesome countdown tool that helps me know exactly how close CodeMash 2011 is! It’s been an amazing run...