Author Archives: Andrew
Current Favourite Books for .NET Developers
March 6, 2012 | Leave a comment
I have been asked a couple of times recently to give the list of books I think are most important. I have collated this list by asking a series of other people. I have tried to get them in the … Continue reading
CMZero
March 1, 2012 | Leave a comment
Our newest product is nearing an alpha release. We are pursuing the leanest of lean start-up methodologies, so I guess the first release will be full of bugs and be primarily for us to use as internal customers. Watch cmzero.com, … Continue reading
Knowledge of the system – worst reason to promote someone?
January 14, 2012 | Leave a comment
One of the reasons a lot of developers get promoted at work is due to “knowledge of the system”. They know how everything works for a project, company or similar and therefore can perform tasks that brand new developers can’t. … Continue reading
Training Junior Developers
December 9, 2011 | Leave a comment
More recently I have been thinking through the best way I can work to get Junior Developer’s trained up and useful members of a development team. Especially with outsourcing as a consideration. I am not sure there is any silver … Continue reading
Tech companies getting vocal about school Comp Sci
November 28, 2011 | Leave a comment
Today there has been a lot of publicity about the announcement from many tech companies, including Google and Microsoft, about the poor teaching of Computer Science. The BBC reported it as such: http://bbc.in/txcz7a. I really agree with the premise of this … Continue reading
Continuous Delivery, key to success?
November 13, 2011 | Leave a comment
I was asked to reply to Paul Stack’s post here: http://www.paulstack.co.uk/blog/post/is-implementing-continuous-delivery-the-key-to-success.aspx His question was whether Continuous Delivery is the key to success of an development project. It was an interesting point from a small business or project start-up perspective. Read my … Continue reading
Continuous Delivery
September 24, 2011 | Leave a comment
Recently we have been taking much more interest in Continuous Delivery. Working on early stage start up projects continuous delivery is pretty much assumed. You put code up the server all the time and don’t really think about it. Getting … Continue reading
Specflow for Restaurant Sale project
September 18, 2011 | Leave a comment
I have been interested in Web Automation for BDD in Web projects for some time. I have had exposure to Cucumber using Capybara in one .NET project but in truth I always found that running a team of .NET developers … Continue reading
Restaurant-sale.co.uk going live
June 15, 2011 | Leave a comment
Our latest project www.restaurant-sale.co.uk is now going live! It is a vertical based Business Sales website. It focusses on restaurant sales. Restaurant Sales are a tough business for business agents and getting in front of a dedicated restaurant buying audience … Continue reading
Recruiting overseas for specific skills
January 17, 2011 | Leave a comment
I am in another recruiting phase for a particular website. It has been a mixed journey so far. For technical types this will be a ASP.NET MVC website using TDD or BDD. For cost reasons collocating in the UK would … Continue reading
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@stack72 : Really. Maybe we should travel Monday and come back Thursday? Up for Baseball though >>
2012/05/13
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2012/05/13
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2012/05/11
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2012/04/30
@gasparnagy That worked well. Couple of small issues when regenerating feature files but closing VS down and starting again seemed to fix it >>
2012/04/24
@gasparnagy Excellent. Out of town this weekend but will try that early next week. Looks like a good migration path. Thanks! >>
2012/04/20
@specrun reason being that until I can get all developers onto specrun and licensed etc it is tough to switch fully >>
2012/04/19
@specrun one thing I would love is ability to run either NUnit or SR against my feature files. Would provide me an effective migration path. >>
2012/04/19
See http://t.co/8YgVBRKb for video on basic functionality. Very enlightening. >>
2012/04/15