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Benjamin Mitchell

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• What's Ken Schwaber's attitude to answering questions?

  Posted: 15 Nov 2007 at 23:00 by Your DisplayName here!

  [Updated after clarifying my thinking] Ken Schwaber, one of the co-creators of Scrum, claims to not like answering questions.  At the Scrum Fall Autumn Gathering in London this morning he made the following statements (very much my paraphrase): People will ask me questions and think that the a

• Why wont Ken Schwaber answer questions?

  Posted: 15 Nov 2007 at 12:16 by Your DisplayName here!

  Ken Schwaber, one of the co-creators of Scrum, doesn't like answering questions.  At the Scrum Fall Autumn Gathering in London this morning he made the following statement (very much my paraphrase): People will ask me questions and think that the answers will be useful to them. Scrum is like j

• Office Server 2007: Can it help me write less code?

  Posted: 14 Jun 2006 at 14:47

  Recently I've been doing a "tour of the trenches", helping a major client with their web-based applications for the Insurance industry. It's taught me that there's a lot of development work that goes on in companies that doesn't relate to the overall aim of delivering business value through softwar

• Office Server 2007: Can it help me write less code?

  Posted: 14 Jun 2006 at 14:47

  Recently I've been doing a "tour of the trenches", helping a major client with their web-based applications for the Insurance industry. It's taught me that there's a lot of development work that goes on in companies that doesn't relate to the overall aim of delivering business value through softwar

• Office Server 2007: Can it help me write less code?

  Posted: 14 Jun 2006 at 14:47

  Recently I've been doing a "tour of the trenches", helping a major client with their web-based applications for the Insurance industry. It's taught me that there's a lot of development work that goes on in companies that doesn't relate to the overall aim of delivering business value through softwar

• Server-side Excel: changing the face of financial apps?

  Posted: 12 Jun 2006 at 17:47

  I'm currently pondering whether the new server-side capability of Excel 2007 could radically change the face of many financial application.  Excel is so widely used in finance that many companies could describe it as their platform.  I'm currently involved in writing a web application for

• Server-side Excel: changing the face of financial apps?

  Posted: 12 Jun 2006 at 17:47

  I'm currently pondering whether the new server-side capability of Excel 2007 could radically change the face of many financial application.  Excel is so widely used in finance that many companies could describe it as their platform.  I'm currently involved in writing a web application for

• Server-side Excel: changing the face of financial apps?

  Posted: 12 Jun 2006 at 17:47

  I'm currently pondering whether the new server-side capability of Excel 2007 could radically change the face of many financial application.  Excel is so widely used in finance that many companies could describe it as their platform.  I'm currently involved in writing a web application for

• Ray Ozzie: Services Disruption and the need for 'Client Server Service Synergy'

  Posted: 12 Jun 2006 at 17:13

  TechEd Boston started Sunday night with Ray Ozzie admonishing us that there's a 'Services Disruption' coming and proposing the slightly tongue-twisting 'Client Server Service Synergy' (and the lesser-used companion phrase 'Client Server Service Symmetry') as the way forward, with Microsoft off

• Ray Ozzie: Services Disruption and the need for 'Client Server Service Synergy'

  Posted: 12 Jun 2006 at 17:13

  TechEd Boston started Sunday night with Ray Ozzie admonishing us that there's a 'Services Disruption' coming and proposing the slightly tongue-twisting 'Client Server Service Synergy' (and the lesser-used companion phrase 'Client Server Service Symmetry') as the way forward, with Microsoft off

• Ray Ozzie: Services Disruption and the need for 'Client Server Service Synergy'

  Posted: 12 Jun 2006 at 17:13

  TechEd Boston started Sunday night with Ray Ozzie admonishing us that there's a 'Services Disruption' coming and proposing the slightly tongue-twisting 'Client Server Service Synergy' (and the lesser-used companion phrase 'Client Server Service Symmetry') as the way forward, with Microsoft off

• DDD3: Deadline for speaker submissions extended until Monday

  Posted: 16 Mar 2006 at 12:14

  We've extended the deadline for speaker submissions until this Monday 20th March to allow final submissions to be put forward.  We have an excellent list of submissions so far, but we'd like to allow everyone enough time to submit a session.  Attendee voting will start on Tuesday.

• DDD3: Deadline for speaker submissions extended until Monday

  Posted: 16 Mar 2006 at 12:14

  We've extended the deadline for speaker submissions until this Monday 20th March to allow final submissions to be put forward.  We have an excellent list of submissions so far, but we'd like to allow everyone enough time to submit a session.  Attendee voting will start on Tuesday.

• DDD3: Deadline for speaker submissions extended until Monday

  Posted: 16 Mar 2006 at 12:14

  We've extended the deadline for speaker submissions until this Monday 20th March to allow final submissions to be put forward.  We have an excellent list of submissions so far, but we'd like to allow everyone enough time to submit a session.  Attendee voting will start on Tuesday.

• DDD III on Sat 3 June: Call for Speakers!

  Posted: 15 Feb 2006 at 23:05

  Developer Developer Developer, the free day-long conference for developers, by developers is back for a third time on Saturday 3 June.  The call for speakers is open.  If you've got a topic that you'd love to share with other developers in the community, please submit a session.

• DDD III on Sat 3 June: Call for Speakers!

  Posted: 15 Feb 2006 at 23:05

  Developer Developer Developer, the free day-long conference for developers, by developers is back for a third time on Saturday 3 June.  The call for speakers is open.  If you've got a topic that you'd love to share with other developers in the community, please submit a session.

• DDD III on Sat 3 June: Call for Speakers!

  Posted: 15 Feb 2006 at 23:05

  Developer Developer Developer, the free day-long conference for developers, by developers is back for a third time on Saturday 3 June.  The call for speakers is open.  If you've got a topic that you'd love to share with other developers in the community, please submit a session.

• I can see clearly now: NUnitAddin and NCoverBrowser

  Posted: 03 Feb 2006 at 13:03

  Jamie Cansdale's done it again- he's added Test With -> Coverage to the TestDriven.NET Visual Studio add-in.  A picture's worth 1,000 words: Once the tests are run it launches Grant Drake's (aka KiwiDude) re-write of Jeff Key's NCoverExplorer.  The NCoverExplorer then displays full cov

• I can see clearly now: NUnitAddin and NCoverBrowser

  Posted: 03 Feb 2006 at 13:03

  Jamie Cansdale's done it again- he's added Test With -> Coverage to the TestDriven.NET Visual Studio add-in.  A picture's worth 1,000 words: Once the tests are run it launches Grant Drake's (aka KiwiDude) re-write of Jeff Key's NCoverExplorer.  The NCoverExplorer then displays full cov

• I can see clearly now: NUnitAddin and NCoverBrowser

  Posted: 03 Feb 2006 at 13:03

  Jamie Cansdale's done it again- he's added Test With -> Coverage to the TestDriven.NET Visual Studio add-in.  A picture's worth 1,000 words: Once the tests are run it launches Grant Drake's (aka KiwiDude) re-write of Jeff Key's NCoverExplorer.  The NCoverExplorer then displays full cov