Monthly Archives: May 2008

Nothing to see here

So in my ongo­ing desire to lower my self-worth, I’m try­ing to learn to play the piano. Now, it’s not con­certed effort yet at all but I have some musi­cal abil­ity, I could play the piano once, and so I’m toy­ing with it off and on (mostly off). I men­tion this because I’ve had the …

May 30, 2008 – 4:58 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (2)

Lumbering Giants Can’t Dance

It’s a dirty lit­tle secret but but there really is a big glar­ing hole in the whole agile soft­ware move­ment in large Amer­i­can busi­nesses and this guy nails it. The busi­nesses built around the soft­ware that most agile teams write aren’t actu­ally agile at all and that’s impor­tant. The agile teams I’ve worked on have …

May 28, 2008 – 6:44 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

Source Code Analysis From Microsoft

Here’s a fas­ci­nat­ing lit­tle tool from Microsoft for teams who both have some stan­dards that they code against and want to ana­lyze how closely their code con­forms to those stan­dards. I haven’t given it a try yet but it looks like Microsoft has been using it inter­nally for quite awhile and that def­i­nitely says some­thing. …

May 24, 2008 – 7:41 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

And So It Begins

The Ingre­di­ents to a per­fect Texas BBQ. And fit­tingly, I drink my cof­fee on BBQ day from the Texas Cof­fee Cup: The Brisket went on at 10:10, cur­rent tem­per­a­ture in the smoker is 215 and now we smoke. It’s like a mis­sion from God only better.

May 24, 2008 – 9:25 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

WCF DataContractSerializer Learns the Alphabet

Let’s say you have a WCF web ser­vice with REST­ful bind­ings that accepts com­plex objects and you’re hav­ing trou­ble fig­ur­ing out why some of your prop­er­ties and fields on the com­plex objects never seem to seri­al­ize prop­erly. Maybe you’ve even popped open Wire­shark and you know that the data is being put on the wire …

May 22, 2008 – 6:23 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

Random

So yeah. Quiet ’round these parts lately. I don’t really have an expla­na­tion for that. Well, I was on vaca­tion. And we have a major back­yard project that is under­way and has to be com­plete by this week­end. Oh and I have a mad case of poi­son ivy that basi­cally makes me cranky around the …

May 20, 2008 – 9:31 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Pandora.com Rocks

I love Pandora.com. On my Slaid Cleaves sta­tion, I just heard Ray Wylie Hub­bard, the god­fa­ther of Austin alt-country scene fol­lowed by Burl Ives singing Pearly Shells (Yup, Burl Ives) fol­lowed by the Lost Immi­grants. Now if I could just get Pandora.com in my car, my life would be totally complete.

May 7, 2008 – 9:35 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)