Productivity

See also: Part I: How I started to use Scrum Part II: Scrum, but In Part I we looked at how I first got into Agile and Scrum. Last week in Part II, we explored how Scrum failed to be flexible enough to fit into my unique process. Today we will take a look at how I got introduced to Kanban. The start-up I worked at a few years ago that I described in Part II successfully used Scrum for traditional software development, however, when we were faced with a pretty unique development requirement, Scrum failed us. To refresh your memory from Part II, we had to spider thousands...

I was very happy to see feedback from several of you who are very happy about the latest additions to Telerik Reporting! As promised, here are the demo projects I utilized during the webinar. Please note that there are a few requirements to get them up and running successfully. I've listed those below. Requirements Telerik Reporting Q1 2011 (Download Trial) Open XML SDK 2.0 (Download) Windows Azure SDK (Download) Projects Reporting Q1 2011 Demos Cloud Reports Demo Thanks again for attending if you were able to make it to the live webinar! If ...

Often we end up in a situation where constructor call on the target type requires us to include  a config file in our test project or requires firing up some external process. To better illustrate this if we create an entity framework data container either new or from an existing database , we will likely to end up with an entry point class that requires either a valid connection string to be passed or if we expand the default constructor we might see this:   /// <summary> /// Initializes a new NorthwindEntities object using the connection string found in the 'NorthwindEntities' section of the application...

Now that Linq-to-SQL is not going to be developed any more, it seems developers are left with little choice as to what ORM to use for their next projects. The ADO.NET Entity Framework seems to have become the ORM of choice for most Microsoft developers, who want to address the impedance mismatch across various data representations, but although very good and quite powerful, it falls short on some important characteristics of modern-day development: Visual Mapper/Entity Designer with advanced capabilities; Lack of native support for databases different from SQL Server; Release cycle of 2-4 years; Advanced/dedicated technical support; No built-in caching layer; We are sure that code-first...