Here’s wishing all DaedTech readers who celebrate Thanksgiving today a safe and happy holiday. I will most likely not make anymore posts this week as I celebrate the holiday over this long weekend. Posts will resume as per normal next Monday. Cheers!
For the last few years, I’ve focused largely on desktop development doing WPF and C#. I’ve dabbled a little here and there in web development, but the lion’s share of my web development up until the last few months occurred several years ago or earlier. Recently, I’ve been doing nothing but web development, in the…
Are Unit Tests Overused? I was reading this blog post by Andrew Hunter recently where he poses the question as to whether or not unit tests are overused. The core of his argument is a rather nuanced one that seems to hinge on two main points of wariness: Developers may view unit tests as a…
As of Thursday, 11/02/12, a baby ASP MVC project named FeedPaper (later to be feedpapyr.us) has arrived. It is healthy and weights 0 pounds and 0 ounces. Both it and I are doing well, and while it does not yet have much in the way of functionality, it does have its father’s logo and some…
Getting Incentives Wrong A while ago I was talking to a friend of mine, and he told me that developers in his shop get monetary bonuses for absorbing additional scope in a “waterfall” project. (I use quotes because I don’t think that “waterfall” is actually a thing — I think it’s just collective procrastination followed…
