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In 1846 it wasn't a required practice for medical professionals to wash their hands or equipment when treating a patient. In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis experimented and discovered that incidences of maternal death from Puerperal fever at Vienna General Hospital were drastically reduced simply by requiring midwife ward staff to wash their hands.
Despite showing data that mortality rates under his watch at his hospital rapidly fell off after instituting this new practice, his theories were not widely accepted until well after his death when Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory of disease.
What does this have to do with software? Well, I...
Over the years, as I speak to other developers, or give presentations at events, I always end up with a lot of questions about "How do you...[x]?"
It occurs to me that there's an awful lot of information out there about the ideal ways to do things, or about how things should be done, or even personal stories about how things are done, but there's not a ton of people out there saying "This is how all this stuff works on my team, end to end, top to bottom"
Further, there always seems to be a focus on what we're doing *now*...
This week two of the members of my team finally jumped into the blogging scene in an effort to share what they've learned, give back (so to speak) to the community, and, in some ways, learn out loud.
For those of us that blog regularly (or, irregularly) it's obvious that blogging about a topic is different than knowing about a topic, and that making yourself write about something, or speak about something, is a great way to shift your perspective and think critically about what you are doing. For this reason, among others, I always encourage people on my team to...
I will be speaking this Saturday, August 23, at Jacksonville, FL CodeCamp. I'm doing two presentations, Introduction to Agile Techniques and Measuring Code Quality with NDepend. Introduction to Agile Techniques will be aimed at audiences looking to find ways to adopt Agile practices at work in a pragmatic way. The focus will be on finding ways to improve your current software development practice with low impact to the organization. Measuring Code Quality with NDepend will be a demo of the powerful static analysis features of NDepend and an explanation of some key metrics. Obviously an hour-long talk on NDepend won't...
Short Notice, but some developers are going to be getting together tomorrow night, Wednesday, August 13, at 7:00pm in downtown Ocala at Tin Cup's Tavern on the square. Topics of discussion will center around building the local dev community, and whatever else you want to talk about. We'd like this to become a regular event to help build the local community.
If you need more information contact me at scott@scottcreynolds.com or via phone at 352-209-0943
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So last week I was on my very first podcast, gathered in the INETA lounge at TechEd '08 with the likes of Keith Elder, Glen Gordon, Carey Payette, Alan Stevens, Rob Windsor and Joe Kunk. We talked about connecting with the community via Twitter (when the fail whale isn't surfacing for air) and about extended tech friends and family. Check out the podcast at Deep Fried Bytes and see what it's about. There are a couple of episodes ahead of ours, but I'm not on those, so you don't have to listen to them. Joking. Listen to them. And...