James Peckham's Blog Feed

Scrum and Multitasking

jpeckham — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:05:41 GMT

Multi tasking isn't bad... all of the impediments that force you to multi task are bad.

Think about the last ...

Why User Stories? They help us plan and estimate.

jpeckham — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:15:08 GMT

We use basic requirements at our work. They're of the normal "The system shall" style but not nearly so stringent. ...

What employees do the scrum roles?

jpeckham — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:17:54 GMT

Who does what role in scrum?

aka

This Organizational Chart is a Figment of your imagination.

Life ...

Changing the Path on the ASP.NET Session Cookie

jpeckham — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:10:38 GMT

Function Session_Start(Object sender, EventArgs e)

Dim mycookie As HttpCookie

mycookie =NewHttpCookie(Response.Cookies("ASP.NET_SessionId").Name,Response.Cookies("ASP.NET_SessionId").Value)

Response.Cookies.Remove("ASP.NET_SessionId")...

Polymorphing different Types

jpeckham — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:31:00 GMT

So my friend (though not good enough friend to be my ‘boatfriend’) ran into a programming issue the other day ...

Init Params in Silverlight 3

jpeckham — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:47:49 GMT

I converted my silverlight app over to silverlight 3 today and ran into an issue with InitParams because the silverlight ...

POST data is missing in the POST

jpeckham — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:13:24 GMT

So I was working on this WCF client to talk to the facebook REST api and ran into a really ...

Duplex Service in Silverlight

jpeckham — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:27:35 GMT

I'm writing a silverlight app for facebook and I came across a couple of blogs that were extremely helpful on ...

Authenticating a Canvas Page in Facebook with .Net

jpeckham — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:52:29 GMT

So, the first time I did this was a while back and I remembered it being very confusing.

Here's the ...

Calling RESTful Facebook services with WCF

jpeckham — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:33:10 GMT

So, I got some crazy idea that I wanted to take another stab at writing a facebook application. A ...

Speeding Up Processing with Async Delegates

jpeckham — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:01:18 GMT

The other day we had to add a longer running I/O call during a log in process that already took ...

Controlling Schema In WCF

jpeckham — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:10:38 GMT

So I’m studying the MCTS for WCF and they talked about the differences between Data Contract serialization and Xml Serializer ...

Internet Explorer 7 hangs indefinitely

jpeckham — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:37:18 GMT

So I saw this awesome issue where IE 7 hangs indefinitely and stops responding on the third request for a ...

Playing Music and Sound in Managed DirectX

jpeckham — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:13:54 GMT

//Here's the code, pretty straightforward

//Download this Project in Visual Studio 2008 Format

//download and install the directx SDK...

Building A Culture of Responsibility

jpeckham — Sat, 23 May 2009 22:02:37 GMT

When you can't find your keys in the morning, is your first reaction to yell "Honey, where'd you put my ...