The State of Team System (YAP)

Yet Another Podcast, (YAP) talking not just about Team System but about effective, predictable software process and the tools that can be used to enact one. (Primarily TFS, but a few others were mentioned.) This discussion, with the issues that were highlight, only further emphasizes to me the definite advantage of using the right process [...]

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Is Software Development Too Complex? (YAP)

Yet Another Podcast, (YAP) this time about the complexity of software development, the different types of complexity of consider, and an all-around interesting conversation.
Panel: Is Software Development Too Complex?
Recorded live at devLink in Nashville, Tennessee. Billy Hollis, Kathleen Dollard, Jim Holmes, and Josh Holmes (no relation) discuss the issue of the complexity of software development. [...]

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Release It with Michael Nygard | Software Engineering Radio

This was a fantastic interview that covered a lot of topics I hadn’t really considered before. For example, how to write software that best meets not only the functional requirements of the project, but also the long-term operational requirements. Michael’s book has gone into my Amazon wishlist!
This episode is a discussion with Michael Nygard about [...]

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Notepad++

This is a fantastic text editor than can handle anything you throw at it, from XML to SQL to C#. And if you somehow find something it doesn’t there’s more than likely a free plugin that closes the gap. After trying MANY of the various text editors available this is hands down my favorite. So [...]

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