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Repping the UK Scene
Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by Bob.
I’ve just returned to the UK after a week in Silicon Valley at a Microsoft event. The event was called SocialFest 2010, and was a competition designed to show the new capabilities of Sharpeoint 2010. 7 teams from around the world were invited to take part, and to produce a solution atop Sharepoint 2010.
After a week of 14 hour days, more sugar and caffeine than is strictly healthy, one trip to the emergency room, and a metric ton of tobacco, we came out on top and brought home the silverware.
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We love OpenRasta
Posted on 06. Apr, 2009 by Bob.
I wrote last time about some of the things we want to do in order to make our application open for extension and integration. I get asked quite regularly what technologies we’re using at Huddle, so I thought I might spend some time talking about the stack we’re going to build all this on. We’re [...]
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The Future of Huddle: Bet on Openness; Build Trust
Posted on 31. Mar, 2009 by Bob.
I want to take a break from writing about code and spend a bit of time on blue-sky stuff, our approach to standards, and the technologies we want to adopt. I’ll try to keep the jargon to a minimum. At Huddle we work to a tightly controlled schedule, from a prioritised list of business requirements. [...]
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OO, a bluffer’s guide, part 4
Posted on 08. Feb, 2009 by Bob.
Ho hum, settling into a stride here, starting to feel like I’m making headway. Must shake off the habit of writing these things stream of consciousness; I think I need a cigarette. Last time I talked about substitutability, and the Liskov Substitution Principle, mentioning Wall-E and his amazing hot-swappable eyes. This time I want to [...]
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Object Orientation – A Bluffer’s Guide (part … er … three? yeah, three)
Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Bob.
So I mentioned in the last article that OO is more a craft than a science. OO practitioners, no matter how confident they might sound, are operating by rules of thumb. The technical term for a rule of thumb, should you ever want to show off at a geeky party, is heuristic but that’s neither [...]
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Object Oriented Programming: A Bluffer’s Guide (part one of at least four)
Posted on 12. Jan, 2009 by Bob.
We have a really good interview process here at Huddle, but it’s lengthy, so we use phone screens as a way of filtering out applicants who are likely to perform poorly. It’s also a nice excuse for me to take twenty minutes out of my day to talk about code and software engineering to a [...]
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On fashion
Posted on 05. Oct, 2008 by Bob.
“We need a new operating system designed for the cloud and we will introduce one in about four weeks, we’ll even have a name to give you by then. But let’s just call it for the purposes of today ‘Windows Cloud’” — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, today “The interesting thing about cloud computing is that [...]
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On scalability, part II – Service Buses and Asynchronous Services
Posted on 01. Oct, 2008 by Bob.
HELP! I’m think I’m becoming an architect Caveat Lector: turns out I’m WRONG again. The following is mostly correct, but I’m not sure the Distributor will do what I want it to do. I’m examining my options, but don’t go away thinking this is gospel truth, because it’s not. Nor’s the gospel, for that matter, [...]
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Microsoft to Ship Open Source Framework as Part of Standard Dev Environment
Posted on 28. Sep, 2008 by Bob.
Satan reports “worrying cooling trend” I’m absolutely delighted by the announcement that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with VS.Net image by piermario under CC attribution. All his photos are awesome. The ASP.Net team have been one of the most developer friendly groups at MS for a while – the new MVC framework was a very [...]
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More notes from the dev pit
Posted on 18. Sep, 2008 by Bob.
Another DrinkTank last night, and another hangover this morning. I especially want to say “Hi” to everyone I insulted or confused, you made my night. It was great to see so many people show up, and we had a great demographic. On current trends, I calculate that within six months, DrinkTank events will be exclusively [...]
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Huddle Blog Creating a culture of Quality (part III of … more than III)
Posted on 12. Sep, 2008 by Bob.
An eager mind enquires: “I’d be interested to know how you go about the all-office bug hunt, ie how long you tell people to spend, what the test scripts look like, etc”. O HAI GUISE. There’re several points to cover here, so you get a blog post all to yourselves – partly because it saves [...]
