Archive for July, 2008

The Joy of Coding, and Code Leadership

Monday, July 28th, 2008

I love coding. I always have, and I think I always will. When I’m writing code, I’m having fun, I’m satisfying my intellectual curiosity, I’m creating something, I’m accomplishing a goal, and I’m getting instant gratification. I just love to code. The thing is, I don’t get to do much ...

My To Do List

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Today I finally received my copy of Pro WF 3.5, which is a great book about Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and how to fully take advantage of it. I'm very excited about WF and I see it becoming the focal point of application development in .NET shops over the next ...

Don’t Hate the Game, Hate the Process

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

I'm not a big fan of the one-size-fits-all approach to processes. I think that processes can be good, like when they formalize the way people do things and establish a single point of understanding. I think that processes can be bad, like when they're so complex and unrelenting that they ...