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• You are not going to need it

  When you are writing code it is common to think "I may need XYZ" but I am not really going to need it, Agile advocates using the available time as best as possible and if you do not really need it then why waste time ? Agile also advocates refactoring... Posted Nov 14 2008, 05:49 PM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog Filed under: General Software Development, Agile

• JQuery and Microsoft, some thoughts.

  I noted this last night from Scott Hanslemans twitter messages and Scott Gu's blog post , it makes a lot of sense that a popular javascript lib have VS support and be included in the MVC framework. What caught my attention the most however was these... Posted Sep 29 2008, 05:28 PM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog Filed under: General Software Development

• VibrantInk for tired eyes

  I've been using a black color scheme in VS ever since Rob released his VibrantInk scheme . Lately however I've been suffering with tired eyes after hours of looking at the screen and decided that I need to make some changes. Beyond the screen... Posted Sep 17 2008, 12:38 PM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog Filed under: General Software Development

• Agile has the answers?

  Some software approaches run in cycles Gather requirements (sometimes) Write Code Test code (sometimes) Get the requirements wrong and the requirements change midway through writing the code and your writing more code or changing code and the time scale... Posted Aug 26 2008, 02:22 PM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog Filed under: General Software Development, Agile

• Software Estimation is hard (right)?

  Martin Woodward has a great article on software estimation, why it is hard and what Agile brings to the table . The approach I have seen the most in the past is the grand old FITA analysis (Finger in The Air) estimate. Get it right and your on time, get... Posted Aug 26 2008, 02:03 PM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog Filed under: General Software Development, Agile

• MbUnit @ ThoughtWorks geek night

  I'll be giving a talk on MbUnit at the next ThoughtWorks geek night here in Manchester, UK on the 27th of August . The night will be a double bill, right after me Chris Morris will be leading a workshop designed to find out what you believe quality... Posted Jul 31 2008, 01:09 PM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog Filed under: MbUnit, General Software Development

• Wanted: a code discovery tool

  Picture this, large scale enterprise app, small scale legacy application, third party code...in other words a code base you are not fully familar with and need to understand. Sure enough can apply the feathers rules but if your in a hurrry to understand... Posted Jul 24 2008, 05:34 AM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog Filed under: .NET, General Software Development

• Alan Turing

  Jeff Attwood has a post on possibily the greatest man in the computing age, Alan Turing. As Jeff states during WW2 Alan helped break the enigma code and went on to become one of the fore-fathers of AI. There are several books on Alans life that are well... Posted Jul 04 2008, 07:56 PM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog Filed under: General Software Development

• MVP & MVC simply put

  This question seems to get asked a lot, this recent article on codeproject does a decent job of explanation as well as this article from Infragistics Guidisan Todd Snyder . If I was sum it up very simply, the different is entry point into the pattern... Posted May 13 2008, 08:08 AM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog Filed under: General Software Development, Patterns

• The work\life balance and my absence of late.

  For the first time in 7 years of blogging I almost managed no blog posts in a month. I (for fun) graphed the last 12 months of blog posts and sure enough the amount of posts has seen a steady drop. I then graphed all the posts I have made on weblogs.asp... Posted Apr 24 2008, 07:36 AM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog Filed under: General Software Development

• The design in TDD

  Lately I've been drafting posts on my daily commute and post them up in batches (just in case you were wondering :). I recall an article (not sure where I read it) about Ron Jeffries and his ability as an 'alpha architect'. Such people are... Posted Mar 10 2008, 06:13 PM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog Filed under: General Software Development, Patterns

• IronScheme

  I have been watching the development of IronLisp, a Lisp compiler for the DLR for a while now . A little while ago it was released onto codeplex and more recently the project was dropped and reformed as IronScheme (Scheme being a Lisp variant). Great... Posted Feb 26 2008, 03:54 AM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog Filed under: .NET, General Software Development, DLR

• IronMonkey

  Todays Flex 3 announcement also carried with it the announcement of an Adobe OSS site . I was looking around the Tamarin site when I noticed the IronMoney project . Being lead by Seo Sanghyeon, an IronPython developer, I at first thought it was an attempt... Posted Feb 25 2008, 07:43 AM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog Filed under: General Software Development

• MbUnit and some news

  MbUnit has achieved a lot in 2 and half years, it was around that time that Peli joined Microsoft and MbUnits future was undecided. Peli wanted to open-source MbUnit but with his new role was unable to do so. I asked Peli and Jamie if I could take this... Posted Dec 22 2007, 12:38 PM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog Filed under: MbUnit, General Software Development

• Learn Lisp today and other stuff

  Master Jedi Jeff had an itch in between Gallio coding and over on the Gallio contrib coded up a Instrumentation API using Mono Cecil , very sweet. The contrib section is just something that is not on any channel and we keep to throw out our ideas. As... Posted Sep 12 2007, 01:34 PM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog Filed under: MbUnit, General Software Development