December 2009 Entries
Some while back I had a chance to work with the good folks at Neudesic. They presented us with the concept of Scrum on a Page. I never received the soft copy of this document and so I finally decided to create one. Click the image below to get the full size image! Scrum on a Page describes most of the really important details about Scrum, who is involved, the meetings, and what the process is. This is a good doc to have if you are just now learning Scrum. Please feel free to make suggestions if...
The first question you may have in reading the title to this post is what is a Brownfield application? The book opens up a discussion on this topic with this opening line: “An industrial Brownfield is a commercial site contaminated by hazardous waste that has the potential to be reused once it’s cleaned up. To a software developer, a Brownfield Application is an existing project, or codebase, that may be contaminated by poor practices, structure, and design but which has the potential to be revived through comprehensive and directed refactoring.” I was able to...
In this show Andrew continues his interview with Javier Lozano. Javier is a .NET consultant in Des Moines, Iowa. He's an ASP.NET MVP and MCSD specializing in ASP.NET, system architecture, and training. Javier is also a co-founder of the Iowa .NET Users Group. On his blog you can find posts on ASP.NET, architecture, design patterns, .NET, XML and Indigo (WCF). Javier enjoys giving back to the community by speaking at user groups, local/regional .NET events, being active in forums and by writing articles for Code Project. In his spare time, Javier enjoys spending time with his...
