Hewing to the truth is a principle that applies to all facets of life, not just development or managing a development team. I’m focusing on the managing aspect because it has come front and center in this area for me in the last few months. As a manager of a development team, I have two [...]
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Jan 052012
Continuing with the Kata Bank – OCR problem from part 1, we move on to actually parsing out some numbers from their corresponding string representations. A bit long, and still no narration, but this will be the last installment that will be sans voice.
Jan 022012
As my development team has been taking up test-driven development, I’ve sensed on at least a couple of occasions that the words I’ve used to describe such haven’t been enough. Pairing has been of worth, but I wanted something more “on the record.” To wit, a video series where I lay down my take on [...]
Dec 262011
Being a .NET developer, I’m used to mouse-driven development. As any coder worth their salt will tell you, this means I’m about half as efficient as I could be, so I strive daily to reduce my dependence on said rodent in all things computer. At work my team uses Subversion, notably Tortoise. This is a [...]
I just recently closed out a round of hiring for my development team. My company’s hiring process is a standard one: initial phone screen, followed by code test and a short to medium length face to face interview with some technical staff, finally followed by a medium interview with management. If we really like you [...]
Jul 252011
This post is a quick run through on how to capture camera input in a Windows Phone 7 application. Source is available at git@github.com:jeffvee/SimpleCameraCapture.git. To be able to capture camera input, we have to use what is called a “chooser.” In this case, we will use a CameraCaptureTask that we initialize at the beginning of [...]
Jul 242011
This post is short introduction to handling touch events in a Windows Phone 7 application. All source is available at. git@github.com:jeffvee/Tocame.git and is built against the latest Mango bits as of this writing. There are two primary means of dealing with touch events in a non-XNA Windows Phone 7 application. These are affectionately referred to [...]
This post is a quick overview to Mango’s new local database functionality. We will be implementing the same functionality as in our fun with files post, namely, simple user management. We will restate the features we want to support here briefly: Create a new user View a user’s preferences Remove a user List users All [...]
