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One of the topics I'm touching on in my Kanban Fundamentals Pluralsight course is Cumulative Flow Diagrams, and how these can be used to analyze flow of a process. Some electronic kanban tools like AgileZen have some …

In working on a client's reporting system, I ran across some

We’ve been fans of team rooms and collaborative work environments at NimblePros for some time. In building out our new building, we took care to create several large open spaces to be used as team rooms, with …

One of my applications relies on a singleton pattern to create a single instance of a server which processes requests from many different ASP.NET handlers. It is created using pretty much standard Singleton code:

I just finished my DevReach Online presentation, A Whirlwind Tour of Software Development Fundamentals. In this 45-minute talk, I covered what I consider to be fundamental principles, patterns, and practices of software …

I've been working with Azure off and on since last summer, and like any new API or platform, there are hurdles involved with the learning curve.

I have a client who lists as one of the key challenges with

When we last saw our hero, he had fallen victim to an evil plot to disable his computer’s ability to boot up. After great efforts at recovery, eventually he was forced to concede defeat to Vista and reinstall …

Last week I encountered a problem with Outlook that I'm happy to report I've just solved. I found a bunch of things on the Interwebs that looked like they might be useful, but none of the fixes there did the trick for me …

Recently I picked up an HP MediaSmart EX470 Windows Home Server to help consolidate my files at home and to provide a simple backup solution. It’s been great and it’s an extremely economical way to get …