Exploration of Thought

Recently Ilya Ryzhenkov posted a thread on the ReSharper blog. The article was about how R# 4.0 gives you a suggestion to use implicitly typed locals. I've been running R# 4.0 nightly builds for a few weeks now and I've noticed these little buggers popping up all over the place. Here's what it looks like:…

Having worked on quite a few teams where I've been the lead responsible for helping implement TDD or been an Agile Coach - I've seen a group of habits develop when teams first start utilizing TDD. These are ...   1. No test isolation All functionality that is being tested is in one test. Tests…

Note: I posted this quite awhile back at FooTheory but it didn't transfer over to this blog via cross posting for some reason. Internet-wackiness I call it.   This is an oldie but a goodie. It was brought up that not one developer at my current client knew about this object in the framework. So,…

Update: There seems to be an issue with recurring events that are NOT set up by you. This is a huge inconvenience. Hopefully the Google Calendar team fixes this soon as this renders this sync tool un-usable as most of my recurring events are set up by others (Project Managers). Google dropped the Outlook Calendar…

Yup, that's right. Team Foundation Sever told me TOO BAD, SO SAD, GO AWAY, TRY AGAIN ANOTHER DAY. What a great way to start a Monday. Oh, any by the way, we have an emergency release that might have to get pushed out. We're waiting on upper management to make the final decision... fun-fun it…

Photo By: just_skizo   Being a consultant has its challenges and conference calls can be one of them. If your company does not offer a conference line for you, or perhaps you're a consultant or freelancer yourself, hosting conference calls can be a challenge and costly if you're not aware of how long the call…

I use Enterprise Library for Logging and I use different event sources for each app. I've noticed that creating event sources is kind of a pain sometimes. Either you have to write an app that does it for you, or you have to write some logic in your code that checks for the event source.…

As of lately I've been tasked with more and more work with process automation. As usual, automation is usually found to be best suited for a scripting language and therefore I've been working with PowerShell a lot lately. I'll admit - I have a problem with scripting languages the IDE's for Scripting Languages. What's the…

Don't you hate it when the network is slow? So do I. Unfortunately I cannot wait ~32 YEARS for this to finish. Bummer. There's nothing agile about waiting 32 years. Sorry guys. :)

Microsofts SharedView has been around for awhile now and at this point is in Beta. Scott Hanselborg posted about the tool just recently and I finally gave it a spin yesterday with another coworker. I was very impressed with the smoothness of the application and I really loved how each user was given their own mouse…

Photo by: mistyeiz A couple of weeks ago I had one hell of a time with an MSBuild script. I felt like I was going crazy, I couldn't figure out what was going on. I was following all of the examples on the net and I still couldn't figure it out. The Internet has tons…

About Me - Who are you and what have you done? My name is Donn Felker. I work as a Principal Agilevent, a Microsoft Partner in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I’m an experienced Software Architect/Developer with over 9 years of professional experience in various markets that include – entertainment, health, retail, insurance, financial, and real estate. I…