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A fairly common use case in web applications is the need to send an

A review of Scrumban by Corey Ladas, covering kanban systems for lean software development and comparing it to other kanban books.

I wrote a few weeks ago about my new Asus Zen Ultrabook computer. I’ve been using it as my primary laptop computer since then, and thought I’d write up a follow-up on how it’s been. Overall, I’m …

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

Reflections on the benefits of team rooms and collaborative workspaces for agile software development, following the Caves and Commons approach.

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