Category Archives: Development
Which Build Servers in SharePoint – The Results
The numbers are in and I think this small sample really gives a good view as to the way people are approaching their SharePoint development projects. Numbers taken from a one week poll asking people which build servers they used … Continue reading
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Which build server are you using?
I am looking to provide some guidance on doing Continuous Integration (CI) on SharePoint projects, looking at the concepts behind CI but also looking to provide examples that can help people get the most out of CI on a SharePoint project. … Continue reading
TDD Master Class – with Roy Osherove
For almost my entire career I have been involved in software development, and probably uniquely more often than not in an environment or role where I have needed to look at process improvement. This started with my first role where … Continue reading
Comparing myself to Uncle Bob Martin
Before last week, I attended Roy Osherove’s TDD Masterclass, I do not think I would have had the “you know what’s” to be able to put up an alternative solution to one of Uncle Bobs (aka Robert Martin) examples of … Continue reading
Daily TDD Kata – now I’m doing what Jack does
Last week I had the pleasure of attending Roy Osherove’s Test Driven Development Masterclass, I will post in a few days more on this but can say this is one of the best training courses I have ever attended. During … Continue reading
What to learn TDD?
If you’ve read my blog you’ll know that I am a fan of Test Driven Development and an avid user of Typemock Isolator, specifically for the hard to test SharePoint code. If you’re not sure of the benefits of doing … Continue reading
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My Dev Rig – The story so far
Having worked for more years than I can remember as a consultant I have lived on my laptop, everything I do is on the laptop including all of the development. My current, and have to say the best one ever … Continue reading
Measuring velocity is not enough
Scrum as an agile approach is great, it allows teams to get up to speed quickly with agile and also enable the business to understand what being agile means. The problem is that people often just do Scrum. Doing Scrum … Continue reading
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Doing Agile in a Team of One – Day 2 and the End of Sprint 1
I recently wrote about my experience of doing agile development in a team of one, where I questioned the idea that ‘If your the only member of the team is it really worth going through the same agile development process … Continue reading
Doing Agile in a Team of One
If your the only member of the team is it really worth going through the same agile development process that you would in a team of eight? Isn’t it quicker to just crack open Visual Studio and start coding? After … Continue reading
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