Author Archives: Dave

About Dave

Agile consultant, loves to fly fish, and sometimes pretends its still the late 80's when hair metal bands roamed the earth.

The spoken versus the actual values of a business; Netflix company values

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Dave

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery Over the weekend I was … Continue reading →

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Shiloh and rebirth.

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Dave

A great article in Slate about General Lew Wallace from the Civil War and how his failure at Shiloh (was he lost? Did he not get the right order?) enabled him to write Ben-Hur, one of the great novels of … Continue reading →

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Curt Schilling and how to lose $125 million the non-agile way…

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Dave

    Great article here about how Rhode Island lost $75 million (and Boston Red Sox legend Curt Schilling another $50 million or so) throwing good money after bad. Here’s some points I got from the article: “It just felt … Continue reading →

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Installing a Windows Server 2012 VM on a Windows 8 Workstation

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Dave

  I have a Windows 8 machine that’s great for browsing. Unfortunately, for anything serious development-related – not so much. (There’s that annoying lack of Local Users and Groups, for example, which crippled my BT2013 install.) First make sure you … Continue reading →

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Put On Your Project Manager Hat, Developer Dudes!

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Dave

I do love this face by the way. I’m going to start walking around with this bad boy on my grill.   This terrific blog post really got me thinking. I’m not going to add anything new but just refract … Continue reading →

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Great programmers are born, not made.

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Dave

Had someone recently ask me about programming and whether it would make a good career for her. I took a few minutes and put down my thoughts. I think the following are good thoughts for people interested in building a … Continue reading →

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Everybody Loves Documentation

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Dave

Of course the above is a complete lie. In a shocking turn of events, developers HATE documentation. (Good developers, that is.) That’s because, 1) it’s tedious and painful, 2) programmers prefer to write code, and 3) comments get so easily … Continue reading →

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Master/Detail table inserts in SQL, for XMl and straight up table inserts.

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Dave

Had a project recently where we needed to insert multiple rows of detail and a header record to several tables. What to do?   /****** Object: UserDefinedTableType [dbo].[DetailType] Script Date: 2/21/2013 5:17:25 PM ******/ CREATE TYPE [dbo].[DetailType] AS TABLE(     [id] … Continue reading →

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NuGet and custom logging, oy!

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Dave

  Some good references here on NuGet: http://nuget.codeplex.com/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh547106.aspx If you’ve already installed MVC3 or 4, you’ve got NuGet already. The walkthrough with ELMAH is intereting… as an alternative to Log4Net and Nlog, both of which I’ve used in the … Continue reading →

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NuGet and custom logging, oy!

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Dave

  Some good references here on NuGet: http://nuget.codeplex.com/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh547106.aspx If you’ve already installed MVC3 or 4, you’ve got NuGet already. The walkthrough with ELMAH is intereting… as an alternative to Log4Net and Nlog, both of which I’ve used in the … Continue reading →

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