Tales from a Trading DeskNoise from an Investment BankMoving to WordPress- November 18, 2005 If WordPress is good enough for Scobleizer, then its probably worth the move. I'm over here now.http://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/2005/11/18/430924.aspx Business Cards- November 18, 2005 Since Finetix is currently re-designing their business cards, maybe they should get Scobleizer involved in the process :)http://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/2005/11/18/430868.aspx Microsoft doesn't get TDD- November 18, 2005 Via Sam.http://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/2005/11/18/430867.aspx Orcas - Visual Studio 2007- November 16, 2005 Blogged by Somasegar who runs Microsoft's Developer Division.http://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/2005/11/16/430694.aspx Must Read MSDN Magazine Articles- November 15, 2005 The last few issues of MSDN Magazine have had a number of excellent articles that in my view are must reads for all .NET developers .NET 2.0 CAS - software engineers never know enough about security SUPERASSERT - When John writes, everyone should read Impact of Low-Lock Techniques - Did you know that .NET 2.0 has a different memory model to the ECMA memory model Reliability Features - CLR hosting, ICLRPolicyManager, Safe Handles... Performance Pitfalls - always worth a re-read, especially when.http://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/2005/11/15/430604.aspx Skinkers- November 14, 2005 I see that the BBC and XBox both use Skinkers, and now the sports betting industry is beginning to use the software. Wonder if any investment banks use it - London Stock Exchange uses it for internal communication.http://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/2005/11/14/430496.aspx Sam's War Room- November 14, 2005 Sam's been blogging about his pure agile team recently. This weekend he posts about his War Room.http://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/2005/11/14/430495.aspx Another Sprint, Another Release - we're on the Grid- November 12, 2005 Yesterday saw the end of another sprint, and a milestone for the current project. We finally managed to get the Informix drivers installed on the UAT grid, followed by a release of the pricing service. This was a major step forwards - it feels like we are on the home straight now. Moving from a custom in-house cluster environment to a commercial grid application has been "interesting" - possible the most diplomatic word I could use. Its been challenging to...http://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/2005/11/12/430391.aspx Microsoft admits .Net skills shortage- November 10, 2005 Sorry but Mark Quirk at Microsoft is behind the times on this one. From what I have seen, there has been a shortage of .NET software engineers for the last few years, and it's not getting any better. I suggested a long time ago that Finetix should begin to train .NET developers, since our clients appear to have an appetite for these resources. I'd also point out that paired programming has a lot of advantages in the trainingknowledge transfer arena.http://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/2005/11/10/430181.aspx Rally finally starts blogging agile- November 10, 2005 Herehttp://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/2005/11/10/430176.aspx |