Hints and Tips on improving personal productivity
I enjoyed listening to DotNetRocks - The Economics, Psychology and Science of Agile with Matthew Renze. Matthew had a lot of insights into why agile works, how to propose and defend the idea using data and analogies, and the importance of information and learning. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and I listened to it again to take notes on it. I highly recommend listening to this. Below are notes from the show, I’ve also added some organization and my thoughts on some of these points. I’ll ......
May I suggest a few items to watch/listen too as you think about process, how to do projects and business better?https://www.ted.com/... the world changed about 15 years ago, do we still try to rationalize things based on the old rules?http://www.ted.com/ta... - Why, not what. A lesson from Apple.DotNetRocks - The Economics, Psychology and Science of Agile with Matthew Renze - http://dotnetrocks.com/?sho... ......
I’m a fan of Codealike and run with their extension while I’m in Visual Studio. It tracks a surprising amount of data on which projects I’m working on, where in the code, time spent building, code languages used, focus, web sites visited to help you gauge productivity (if you let it), many new features in 2014, and they’re even trying to measure technical debt. There’s more there then I have to too look at often, but the premium access (which they gave me 3 months free, thanks CodeAlike!) has a lot ......
I run automated UI test with Selenium (unit testing will do this as well, though not as many files) from the Visual Studio Test Explorer a lot. This creates a new folder inside of my solution location named TestResults for every test run. Depending on what I need to deploy for the test (Selenium chrome driver, images, dlls, etc) the size of that it takes up on my hard drive gets very large after a few weeks. I’ve deleted gigs before. In the spirit of “if you do something more than once, automate ......
Please visit me and read this article at AlignedDev.I had the honor and pleasure of giving my first presentation at an event at South Dakota Code Camp last weekend on November 7th. Thanks to the organizers and sponsors, I’m looking forward to next year already. I talked about the importance of Continuous Delivery in today’s development practices and how it helps us get quality code to our users quicker and more reliably using automated processes. Microsoft’s build system has improved immensely in ......
I’ve been a software developer for about 10 years, 8 years in my current full time job and 2 years off and on in a part-time job during college. Every year we do a yearly review with a reflection form to fill out and a discussion after it has been looked at by a few people. This reflection got me thinking about how I’ve gotten to where I am now. 8 years ago I didn’t know .Net or C# (just some PHP I had taught myself in my college job) and was put on an small eCommerce site with WebForms and VB. It ......
I found ClipX a few years ago and have used it every day since. The ability to have a searchable history of copied text and images from a hot key (I use ctrl+shift+z) has been invaluable. It’s saved me a lot of time where I can just search for something I copied earlier in the day or even yesterday. It hasn’t been updated since 2008, but still works on my Windows 7 machine. Visual Studio has this with ctrl+shift+v, but I like to have this anywhere in Windows. I’d be open to a newer piece of software, ......
I was watching part of Using TypeScript for Large Angular JS Applications on TypeScript. In the SourceMaps and TypeScript section, Justin Schwarty mentions that ctrl+p in the Chrome Dev Tools will pull up a list of files (css, js) that you can debug against. This is similar to the ctrl + comma in Visual Studio (or ctrl + t with Resharper). Hopefully, you’re already aware of this, but for me it will be a huge time server. I’ve searched through the tree of files far too often. The official shortcuts ......
I had a strange problem where I couldn’t correctly run MS tests (with Selenium for UI automation) from Visual Studio. In the Test menu, there is a test settings selection option. Here you can choose a testsettings file. I was chosing this and only seeing “Last Selected Test Settings” instead of the name of the file I chose. I finally got this fixed by opening a Visual Studio command prompt and running devenv.exe /ResetSettings. I still don’t what caused it, I’m just happy to be able to run the tests ......
I was asked to share some resources and thoughts on what I’ve been a part of in the past to our new project management. I like sharing resources :-) and have been thinking/learning about this a lot in the past few years. Here’s part of the email that KanBan, Agile, TFS for work items, Lean, Startup culture are all things I've seen as useful. http://rules.ssw.com.au/Man... Technical Debt article I wrote from HDC 14: http://www.geekswithblogs.n... ......
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