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Developers

Coding Kihon

February 2, 2010Developers

I loved Sara Ford’s thoughts about coding katas. Yes, most coding should really be referred to as coding kihon (as you practice daily), and coding kumite when you’re deep in a project. Nice one. I also enjoyed Steve Andrew’s post on Shotokan Development that Sara linked to.
Oh, and good luck in your new [...]

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Team System Web site clean up

December 12, 2008Community

I’ve always liked how the Team System team work hard to provide details on what they’re up to. This is becoming more the norm on Microsoft assets (just check out the great job Beth Massi has been doing on the VSTO site for example), and so I shouldn’t be surprised to see just how serious [...]

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Software Craftsmanship

November 13, 2008Developers

My good friend and colleague at Elcom, Angus McDonald (aka Falkayn), and I have been chatting about ways to improve the software processes at work. He’s taking over many of the responsibilities I’ve held – now that I’m moving on – and is a considered thinker.
Angus is much more Agile focussed than me, and [...]

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Office DevCon – 15-16 November 2008 – Sydney, Australia

October 15, 2008Community

Yes, Office DevCon is on again. Here’s the details:
Office DevCon is an annual community-driven conference that allows Microsoft Office developers and power users to come together in one location to hear expert speakers present on a wide range of Microsoft Office-related topics.
Come along and discover how to do things you never knew you could do [...]

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Steve Ballmer and Sydney Developers

September 30, 2008Developers

Fin has posted the news that Steve Ballmer wants to chat with developers when he comes to Sydney in November. Get ready for all those ‘Developers, Developers, Developers’ jokes. Seriously though, I think this will be a good thing – at the MVP Summit earlier this year, listening to Steve talk about his passion for [...]

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Great developers

June 23, 2008Developers

[UPDATE: Fin has posted the full list of responses – great advice there!]
What’s a great developer?
An email went around recently asking a few people what they thought constituted a successful developer.
My first thought was: did you mean successful or were really asking what is a great developer – since we all know a few [...]

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