Journeyman to Master

Joel Spolksy, of Joel On Software fame, published an interesting Inc Magazine article yesterday. The article, titled “How Hard Could It Be?: Five Easy Ways to Fail”, covers a number of issues that we developers see from our side of a software project.

As I was reading this, I started

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It truly is amazing the tools we can get our hands on these days. The two that I have a very bad addiction forcannot code without are CodeRush and SQL Prompt.

The only trouble is

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I’m late to the Agile party, I know… but I cannot help but keep seeing many failures and shortcomings of the past being accepted, welcomed, and then addressed in the Agile space.

How many times have you

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In a series of posts on both Coding Horror and the linked Me Talking Out Loud, comments have arisen that suggest Venn diagrams are insufficient to properly represent SQL Joins.

I totally disagree, Venn diagrams fit perfectly. The biggest problem is

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So I’m looking at taking JPB’s advice on a Visual Studio project setup and his reference to using NAnt for his normal builds - even small projects. I’ve seen reference to NAnt for years now and am still having trouble thinking this is just overkill for a “small” standard project.

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