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Next up on the “Must Read” list is the follow-up book from Martin Fowler of the Gang of Four, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code . I hesitated with this one for a bit, thinking about adding it to the “Should Read” book list rather than...
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My library of books should have a wing dedicated to Steve McConnell. He’s a great writer, in that he discusses technical issues with an approachable style and a practical outlook. Much like Peopleware, he’s looking for things that can be proven to work,...
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For obvious reasons, the names and specifics will be left out, but the lesson will remain. I was brought in to advise a product team on the right architecture and tools for their next generation product. I met a highly competent team that had been together...
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In August 1998, we had just shipped Visual Studio 6.0, and I was sitting in a room with my peers when the guy in charge of all of Visual Studio, having recently been poached from Borland for what was rumored to be a 7 figure payout, told the room that...
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This book is the 2 nd book that any software manager should read (The Mythical Man Month being the first), in my humble opinion. Ok, not just in my opinion, but in Fred Brooks’ as well. He wrote the Mythical Man Month and has said that Peopleware deserves...
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The Last Lecture or John Ousterhaut’s “Renaissance Man” Lecture Notes Either of these should have the intended effect, but The Last Lecture is more tragic. I’ll deal with it first. The Last Lecture is a common speaking series where great speakers give...
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Ok, notice this isn't a "Must Read", but it's a very good one! The Design of Everyday Things So maybe you’re finding yourself doing a lot of design. If that’s the case, then I recommend this book. It’s not a home run like some of the others, but it is...
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Design Patterns This is the book written by the Gang of Four that should be required reading for any developer or architect. The vocabulary alone that it imparts makes it worth reading, but it’s also another “a-ha” type book. I can guarantee that any...
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Mythical Man-Month This is Dr. Fred Brooks’ seminal work for project management and software engineering. This cannot be highly recommended enough, and it should be the first book that any project manager, software manager, or development lead becomes...
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Consultancy Skills Event – Thursday 5 th – Friday 6 th August 2010 Last Thursday I made an early journey round the M25 to Sunningdale in Berkshire for a much anticipated Consultancy Skills course run by Tim Barker and Peter Murphy. The course was held...
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User-Centred Design was brought to my attention a few years ago when I was client-side in Ecommerce at Virgin Atlantic. Our goals and strategies always focused on the business and IT efficiencies, so when the EMC User Experience team introduced me to...
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A follow up on a followup - this time it's to add a link to the YouTube API blog about Flash and the HTML5 <video> tag . A couple of good points in there - and a few things you can take away from it. Yes, Flash provides a convenient way to lets...
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I touched on Google's purchase of On2 in my last post very briefly, but it's something that has the potential to enable some quite interesting change in the way web video is delivered - not least because of Google's open sourcing of the VP8 video codec...
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With the popularity and buzz surrounding the iPad (which has something like a daunting 3 million units sold across 80 days) as well as other mobile and tablet devices you could be forgiven for thinking that the hardware is singularly responsible for driving...
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I made an online purchase recently and received the usual confirmation email and then this morning I received another follow up email. It’s sole purpose is to help me identify the purchase on my bank statement, by providing me with the payment identifier....
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Hello there My name is Richard and this is my first blog. I’m feeling excited and a little nervous... so be gentle with me. I have been thinking for a while now that I ought to start blogging and sharing my thoughts on stuff. So 2010 is the year for me...
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So after a year or so blogging here at my company blog , I decided that it was time for me to set up my own. I still very much work for EMC Consulting , it’s just that recently I’ve started to get involved in more community and OSS type things that aren’t...
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Going through the Christmas routine of wrapping presents recently brought home the importance of "metadata". As I am wrapping the presents I know who is giving them and I know who they are for, of course, so why do I need to waste time labelling them??....
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Well the buzz is building about the next version of SharePoint – part of the Office 14 wave (that’s right – there was no Office 13!) – due out, not too surprisingly, in 2010 – or next year, which is not that far off in planning terms. Microsoft SharePoint...
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There has been an ongoing legal struggle in Germany for some time now between Google Analytics , Google Analytics professionals and the government over the legality of google analytics (GA) and whether it breaks their privacy laws. The struggle was put...
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I've only had a smartmeter for a few days, but it's quite alarming how quickly I've become conscious, and slightly competitive, about how I use energy. The first I knew about it was a letter from my energy supplier, asking if I'd like one and inviting...
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If you’ve been following this blog, or those of my colleagues Howard and Jon , it’s probably been obvious that we love the Spark view engine . We’ve been using it in anger for the last 6 months or so on our latest Asp.Net MVC project and between us we...
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I was sitting in an all day client workshop yesterday, working very very hard....and doing some of this.... Given the varied and wonderful world of EMC Consulting, I'd love to see pics from your days.......
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This is part 3 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD...
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It would seem that I'm not the only one thinking about how creativity and brand ownership will be impacted by the growing use of analytics and multi-variant testing (see previous post) as it's the topic of discussion at the next Fantastic Tavern event,...
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