FrazzledDad

Are you hesitant about getting involved with professional communities in your area? Get over that hesitation and dive in. Or at least get yo...

During my first-ever webinar with Telerik this week I spoke briefly about learning how to keep your tests maintainable. This is something ne...

I'm tremendously excited to announce my new career change: as of today I'm Telerik's newest evangelist! I'll be spreading...

Today’s my last day at Telligent. I’m moving on to a very exciting position that hits a lot of my core passions, but I’ll leave that for a...

Good mentors are worth their weight in gold for oh so many reasons: their experience gives them views into problems you’d never considered, ...

I’ve played the guitar for 37 years now; however, I took a 35 year break and just picked it back up two months ago. For years I’d been feeli...

I’ve been mulling this post over for a year or more now, perhaps as long as two. I’ve started a number of drafts and thrown them out, dissat...

UPDATE: I totally forgot one critical part of what I spoke on being a team leader – thankfully Dave Fancher’s summary of KalX reminded me....

My second favorite conference[1], the Kalamazoo X Conference , is rapidly approaching! Please come join a passionate, interactive, engaged g...

I (mostly) diligently update my resume twice a year. I do this regularly because I use the updating process as sort of a retrospective on wh...

Too often folks on a project focus on getting to 100% complete of a specific feature, feature set, or even project. Unfortunately, too often...

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 ...