Category Archives: Agile

Calgary ALT.NET Open Space – August 15-17

So, are you going? If so, you better sign up quick! Space is going fast! What is an alt.net open space? First lets define what an open space actually is… How Open Spaces Works Whoever shows up is the right group. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have. Whenever it starts is the…

Tree Surgeon 2.0 Released

Better late than never…. Our team coordinator, Bil Simser, announced this same thing on his blog a couple of weeks ago.  Tree Surgeon is a .NET Development Tree Generator. Basically, we added … Support for Visual Studio 2003, 2005, and 2008 Ability to choose unit testing framework NUnit and MbUnit Updated NAnt scripts for .NET…

Intro to Microsoft Unity – Dependency Injection Container

  Note: A full solution is supplied at the bottom of this post if you would like to download it and run it. A couple of days ago Matt wrote about the new Unity Application Block. The Unity MSDN article describes Unity as: The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection container….

Beginner Test Driven Development Habits

Having worked on quite a few teams where I’ve been the lead responsible for helping implement TDD or been an Agile Coach – I’ve seen a group of habits develop when teams first start utilizing TDD. These are …   1. No test isolation All functionality that is being tested is in one test. Tests…

A FREE Remote-Collab Tool From Microsoft? (And a list of others)

Microsofts SharedView has been around for awhile now and at this point is in Beta. Scott Hanselborg posted about the tool just recently and I finally gave it a spin yesterday with another coworker. I was very impressed with the smoothness of the application and I really loved how each user was given their own mouse…