Saturday May 31 2008
A couple of days ago I saw a post on Venture Hacks, Free Ideas - Just Add Execution, linking to Mike Speiser's blog. Mike's position is that ideas aren't valuable and execution is everything.
There are a lot of non-valuable ideas out there,...
Friday May 30 2008
A couple of weeks I posted about hiring a development team in Thailand. Having completed that process, it's now time to write about the results.
Actually getting the job ad posted took a bit more doing than expected - doing business online ...
Sunday May 25 2008
There are a lot of challenges in getting someone else to write your code, both in communicating what you want up front and in making sure that what gets written is what you wanted. This is hard enough when you have a clear requirement like duplica...
Sunday May 25 2008
While randomly looking through the incoming searches on my blog, I came across a post from Bamboo Solutions - How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on Vista. Hacking the installer to allow SharePoint development without building a VM ...
Sunday May 25 2008
I've seen a few posts lately covering whether or not you need to know C to be a good programmer, most recently Do you really need to know C? I think so from Darren Stokes.
To a certain extent it seems like people who know C think everyone s...
Thursday May 22 2008
The workflow I have been working on includes some delay activities. It was difficult enough getting them to run at all using the ManualSchedulerService (I think UseActiveTimers fixed that issue), but now that I get into some more complete testing ...
Thursday May 22 2008
The general approach I am using for workflow testing involves a test fixture class for each state in the workflow. TestFixtureSetup creates a workflow runtime and there is a method CreateWorkflowAndMoveToPaidState() which creates a new workflow in...
Wednesday May 14 2008
When starting a new project, the easiest option is always to do everything yourself. When that's not an option you're going to have to find someone who can do it.
Finding good developers is hard at the best of times. Finding good developers...
Monday May 12 2008
For the past few years, I have been doing software development in a corporate environment. While developing an accounts payable system for a financial services company does have its advantages, it's time for me to try the startup thing again. Alth...