No Free Time

Solution Focussed

tad — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:08:36 +0000

Given that there are Things That Need To Be Done: If you don’t do something, someone else has to. If you don’t do the work, you are creating work for someone else. That’s why when you come to me with reasons why something can’t be done, you’re really saying you can’t be bothered figuring out [...]

Mantra

tad — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:14:03 +0000

Repeat after me: Some problems have no solution. Some problems have no solution. Some problems have NO SOLUTION.

The elements of a good team

tad — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:17:58 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this lately. Frequent dialogue Communication within a team should be frequent. But more importantly it should be a dialogue – there is more than one voice contributing to the conversation. What I often see in meetings is one or two people dominating a discussion and not allowing others to pitch in. [...]

Requirements

tad — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:23:35 +0000

“We need a CMS.” “Well, maybe you do. What do you intend to publish?” “We won’t know until we have a CMS!” This very exchange took place about 2 months ago, and I failed to hear the giant, raging alarm bells. Fast forward to today: I’ve integrated a CMS with our existing stack and now [...]

The Hanselman Bump

tad — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:59:06 +0000

@shanselman mentioned my website the other day: And check out the effect it had on my stats! That’s right – 7 more visitors in one day! Damn!

Postal – Easy ASP.Net email templating

tad — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:10:30 +0000

Just saw this – Postal is a .Net library that uses the ASP.Net MVC view engine infrastructure for email templating. Slick. http://aboutcode.net/2010/11/17/going-postal-generating-email-with-aspnet-mvc-view-engines.html

TFS – I’m sorry, I’m not allowed to argue anymore

tad — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:52:16 +0000

So I created some files in my TFS workspace, then forgot about them. Then the branch they were part of was deleted on the server. Oh no! No I have a whole bunch of ‘Pending Changes’ where the files actually don’t exist in TFS *or* my computer (I deleted them locally too). I can’t Undo [...]

DON’T FREAK OUT

tad — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:59:15 +0000

I just updated my blog’s theme. No big deal.

Yes it’s a post about buzz

tad — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:53:51 +0000

Speculating about whether Google Buzz will ‘halve Facebook’s value‘ is an interesting diversion but not ultimately satisfying to me. As a developer I want to consider the ways in which Buzz can change the way the web works, and the way that users can use the web. I’m particularly interested in understanding Buzz’s place in [...]

Cucumber, IronRuby, Exasperation

tad — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:11:21 +0000

I’ve spent the last couple of days trying to get IronRuby running Cucumber on my Win7 machine. I’ve hit a wall with it and I’m appealing to anyone who can help me. I followed this tutorial: http://blog.webintellix.com/2009/10/how-to-use-cucumber-with-net-and-c.html And when I reached step 5 and executed ‘icucumber features’ (in my case I called the batch file [...]