Archive for September, 2008

Sander Hoogendoorn at the DevDays 2008

By shoogend at 18 September, 2008, 9:22 am

Finally, after some experimenting we’ve got it. My team managed to put out the broadcast of my talk on everything and the kitchen sink on YouTube, and moreover, link from that. See the results here. Introduction The introduction part with some jokes in it. Software architecture, design patterns and smart use cases in code A [...]

Someday maybe

By shoogend at 16 September, 2008, 3:24 pm

Dat is schrikken! Als gevolg van de immer toenemende vraag naar software, en het dalen van het aantal studenten die sodtware development willen leren, moet de productiviteit van ontwikkelaars stijgen. Om precies te zijn: honderd keer. Althans, dat voorspelt Gartner. Honderd keer. Dat is niet mis. Nu houdt ik me al zo’n twintig jaar bezig [...]

Talk on DevDays 2008 combining smart use cases, model driven development, software architecture, Silverlight and WCF

By shoogend at 11 September, 2008, 1:22 pm

At the last Microsoft DevDays Conference (2008) in Amsterdam I did a talk (sorry, it’s in Dutch) that covered a lot of subjects, including software architecture, agile software development, dependency injection, domain modeling, smart use cases, Silverlight, WCF, model driven development, Tobago MDA, our Accelerated Delivery Platform and a lot of other stuff that I [...]

Agree or disagree, if a team/firm can’t work well under a waterfall or v-model life cycle they won’t be able to work in agile?

By shoogend at 8 September, 2008, 5:27 pm

On LinkedIn I stumbled over this interesting question (posed by Tony Bruce). Well, I clearly and loudly have to disagree. Having guided several organizations from waterfall to agile, but also from chaos to agile I would definitively say that it is easier to transform a company without rigid methodology to agile, than to convert a [...]

Failing to connect mobile devices to computer using USB

By shoogend at 2 September, 2008, 1:11 pm

I have a mobile device running Windows Mobile 6 which I use for synchronizing my contacts, tasks and appointments with Outlook running on my office laptop (yes, running Windows Vista). Now, since a week my mobile device stopped connceting to my laptop, much to my agony. So I tried al the options I could find [...]