Is your Enterprise too big to fail?
on Nov 5, 2009 in Architecture Disconnected rants complexity Software Architecture software design too big to fail Visual Studio We have met the enemy, and it is Complexity. About a year ago, the media was flooded with debate about financial institutions that were deemed “too big to fail” by industry analysts, financial experts, and government representatives.  A...

Agile Leadership: Methodology Ain’t Enough
on Nov 4, 2009 in The Business of Software agile leadership management methodology Process software development It’s a running joke in software development that as soon as someone demonstrates that he’s a good software developer, he’s promoted to management, whether he wants it or not. Image by Cappellmeister via Flickr In recent years...

Smashing Magazine on Mastering CSS Coding
on Oct 30, 2009 in .Net Development Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are critical to web layout these days.  If you do any web work at all, you owe it to yourself to have at least a passing knowledge of CSS, while most of us need a solid grasp of the subject. Just because CSS is nearly ub...

Callouts: I need a WordPress plugin
on Oct 24, 2009 in Blogging Platforms Open Source Cascading Style Sheets CSS Google Reader Plugin RSS Wordpress In a recent post, I wanted to break out a paragraph into a callout or sidebar — a little box of goodness inset into the body of my post. This proved rather more difficult than I’d planned. Initially, I crafted the callout by hand, using...

Tilting the web — really?
on Oct 14, 2009 in Disconnected rants browsers CSS Firefox Google Chrome web design Here’s a gem for you, courtesy of Engadget: Firefox 3.6 will support accelerometers, make the internet seasick (video). Right.  I can’t wait to write CSS for this.  Are you kidding me?? If you look at the picture of this browser, you ca...

The construction analogy
on Oct 10, 2009 in Architecture best practices building code construction design Software I did it again – just like so many others before me. Last night, Rob Conery dropped a rant about an industry heavyweight who, Rob felt, was doing us all a giant disservice by suggesting that perhaps less could be more, process-wise.  So, of co...

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Cloud pricing: is Azure competitive?
on Oct 8, 2009 in Uncategorized Amazon Azure Google App Engine Microsoft SQL Azure Now that Azure’s pricing model is starting to take shape, we’re starting to see what Microsoft meant when they said Azure would be priced “competitively”.  This week, Oakleaf Systems compared Azure to Amazon’s cloud off...

CSLA – free anti-obsolescence toolkit
on Oct 6, 2009 in .Net Development CSLA .Net Architecture framework Image via Wikipedia Rocky Lhotka recently announced another CSLA upgrade.  One of the features in this release is support for data annotations that work in both WinForms and SilverLight.  Yesterday, Rocky blogged about this implementation (Lever...

Conference packing list
on Oct 5, 2009 in The Business of Software SQL SQL Server Jeremiah Peschka just dropped a great post on prepping for an upcoming SQL Server conference: Random Thoughts for Enjoying the PASS Summit. Not going to PASS?  Don’t worry – this is a great general-purpose packing list.  Use this to pre...