Category Archives: Project Management

Ignorance

Posted in communication, Project Management, User Controls by

My ignorance of stuff often astounds me. My complete lack* of understanding of data binding on the UI is hilarious. Our UI guy just schooled me on it and I am very impressed. Just another reason why I think coding in layers is best. We work in verticals so my ui stuff sucks compares to his.. please just leave me in the back end server side stuff. Obviously one could argue that working in verticals means we get exposed to these concepts, but i would rather that be done more formally in weekly code/nerd talks where the UI guy gets up and does a Data binding or Win UI Validation talk , in the same way i do TDD, or WCF or Nhibernate…

OK, not “complete lack”, more “prematurely dismissive” notion 😉

Assembla.com

Posted in Productivity, Project Management, Source Control by

We have just registered with Assembla.com to manage our international project code base. I wasn’t expecting much, assuming
A: we were paying for it and
B: it would just be an SVN repository.
I have been pleasantly surprised (as both those assumptions were wrong). We are still kicking the tyres but the project management and code check in facilities are nice and clean, not a lot of clutter and provide the experience that i really wanted.
I can see this being a great way for Nick, Gum and I to get working together remotely and getting our code all playing nice. I would be keen to see how i could bolt on some continuous integration to the mix…