Last week I was formally invited to become a member of the JetBrains Development Academy Board – to celebrate, I decided to give something back to the community that has a JetBrains flavour. As I mentioned in my last post – we’ve been doing a lot of ALM / DevOps work in the last year [...]
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In the last 12 months we’ve been doing quite a lot of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) projects helping teams setup Continuous Delivery processes. One of the tenets of Continuous Delivery is “Automate Everything” – which has been a core part of my “work smarter, not harder” ethic for a number of years. The technology that [...]
First of all, I apologise for the length of this blog, but there’s some serious stuff to be said! The Machine that Changed the World by Womack, Jones & Roos This is a book that has been on my reading list for a few years and I finally got round to reading it a few months [...]
Agile is a double-edged sword! On the one hand, following a period of intense change, budget spend and organisational upheaval… your department will have quicker cycle times to market, be more predictable operationally, produce higher quality software, have better working relationships with its customers and will be more adaptive to changes of business objectives and [...]
Ethical Foundations When we founded endjin, Matthew, Lloyd and I spent a lot of time thinking about the type of company we wanted to create; one recurring theme was that in our personal time we each did a significant amount of work for “good causes” and we derived a huge amount of joy and satisfaction [...]
A few weeks ago Geoffrey Smith, the Sharp Architecture Development Lead and I were invited onto .NET Rocks! to be interviewed about the Sharp Architecture project. After we talked about Sharp Architecture – the conversation lead on to other open source projects I’ve been involved with such as Templify and StyleCop for ReSharper. You can listen to the [...]
Anyone who follows me on Twitter will know that I love food. Cooking it, eating it, thinking about it… That industry has an above-average number of incredibly driven, creative, focused individuals who have a passion for what they do; the flair to do it; and, above all, the willingness to pass on that experience to [...]
In 2008 Microsoft released Source Analysis a tool to help solve the thorny problem of coding standards in C# projects, soon afterwards they re-launched it using it’s original internal Microsoft name, StyleCop (to avoid confusion with the TFS Code Analysis tools), along with an SDK that allowed the community to extend the product. In May [...]
I’ve always been surprised by the number of people within the technology sector, in particular the software development industry who don’t have a traditional computer science background. Some of the most talented software developers I’ve worked with have university backgrounds in chemistry, astrophysics, geography, marine biology, just not Computer Science and two of the most [...]
This blog was prompted by a question from fellow endjineer and all-round genius, Ian Griffiths. He wanted to know how Expression Blend managed to find the Visual States exposed by the standard controls, and how you might, therefore, do the same job in your own code. (If you want to read up a bit about [...]
