James Peckham's Blog Feed

The Lemonade Dilemma

jpeckham — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:54:30 GMT

Once you have a software company, your product will inevitably change. It will probably change based on many factors, but ...

Automated Deployment Lessons Learned

jpeckham — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:55:07 GMT

We have this ETL/Datawarehouse project going on at work and it uses these windows scheduled tasks to go grab data ...

Organizational Values as Anti-Patterns

jpeckham — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:56:18 GMT

I like anti-patterns… so here are a few organizational values as anti patterns. See if you can tell what these ...

Some ways i handle email

jpeckham — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:14:13 GMT

You can disagree with this stuff but this is how I (try to) roll:

Don’t put multiple people in the ...

How I Focus on Software Quality

jpeckham — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:26:39 GMT

Quality software is Code that delivers the intended andconsequential business value while also keeping a minimal amount of maintenancecost after ...

Scaling Scrum with User Stories

jpeckham — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:17:46 GMT

One of the more difficult things to understand for companies who are converting from non-agile methods to agile is ...

Using Fluent NHibernate to generate your database

jpeckham — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:01:51 GMT

After my data access debacle at c4c I decided to sit down and give NHibernate a serious look ...

Google bringing Gigabit Internet to Kansas City, KS

jpeckham — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:04:42 GMT

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42342322

Read up... I personally haven't had a chance yet, but this is exciting news that will hopefully further break ...

C4C Recap and Lessons Learned

jpeckham — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:34:49 GMT

As I was hacking around at Coders for Charities on my attempt at reproducing the Row Data Gateway Pattern from ...

Preparing my Visual Studio Development Environment

jpeckham — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:25:53 GMT

Preparing my c# .net, asp.net, wpf, wcf, MS SQL, Windows phone 7, CAB UI development environment

If you’re just starting ...

Scrum-a-thon and on and on

jpeckham — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:24:59 GMT

Is your scrum meeting going wildly out of control but you really want the team to self-manage it?

Try ...

Exciting Month in March

jpeckham — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:17:54 GMT

There are a couple of programming/software events coming up this month that I would love to have everyone be aware ...

VS10x CodeSmart cool feature

jpeckham — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:55:18 GMT

I had never heard of this tool:

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1c54d1bd-d898-4705-903f-fa4a319b50f2/

but basically i've given it a quick glance and am giving ...

WebException: The remote server returned an error: (405) Method Not Allowed.

jpeckham — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:00:57 GMT

Short post... I found this because I had another issue and had uninstalled asp.net...

Try installing WCF http activation services...