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Category Archives: .NET
Motivating Teams
The most important part of being a team leader is to keep the team motivated, both at an individual and team level. It involves ensuring, Everyone is clear about what we are doing and more focused on the outcome then the effort involved. Identify any individual limiting beliefs and help eliminate them Constant communication/feedback Celebrate […]
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WPF/MVVM UX
I picked up a coding task, to add a feature to our WPF/MVVM based user interface for a legacy application. I’ve decided to use the Telerik RibbonBar control and as with any third party controls, you can run into issues and wrestle with it and support forums, to get the display to look just right. […]
Completing stories…
As a scrum team, the intent is to complete all stories that are planned and committed for a sprint. The reality is though that not everything will get done for all kinds of reasons, to name a few, incorrect estimates, where in something turned to be a lot bigger than anticipated. Perhaps the stories were […]
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Agile Team leadership
Each Agile team has it’s own unique challenges, and it changes as the team evolves. One of our challenges to functioning as a cohesive coding team, has been the relative differences in coding skill levels between various team members. After observing and talking to the team, it occurs to me, the following measures in upcoming […]
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HTML 5 – Useful Links
Some useful HTML 5 related links, Standard Specshttp://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers.http://caniuse.com HOW WELL DOES YOUR BROWSER SUPPORT HTML5?www.html5test.com HTML5 IE enabling scripthttp://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/ HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site.http://html5boilerplate.com/
Using canvas element in HTML 5
Canvas is an interesting HTML5 feature. HTML 5 defines the <canvas> element as “a resolution-dependent bitmap canvas which can be used for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly.” A canvas is a rectangle in your page where you can use JavaScript to draw anything you want. Here’s a quick example […]
Leading a volunteer organization
In smaller towns, there are not a lot of technical events or conferences and if you are interested in learning or meeting other people with a passion for technology you have to travel to larger cities. So I got really interested when I heard of a fledgling .net user group and wanted to support it. […]
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Montgomery code camp
Just returned from the AL Code Camp #7 at AUM campus in Montgomery. Lots of developer centric tracks, great giveaways. Event was well attended, great job Bruce and rest of the code camp volunteers.
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Code Repositories
Most people are familiar with codeplex, a popular code repository. Here are some other links to check out, github, sniplr, codeproject.
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Learning LINQ – Extension methods
Extension methods can be used to extend the set of methods that you can use for LINQ queries, namespace TestConsoleApplication { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { int[] myNumbers = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,7 }; // the j=>j lambda expression as a parameter to the method so compiler // implicitly converts […]
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