Comments for tmgirvin.com http://tmgirvin.com my personal blog on software development, agile methods, fast cars, politics, phylosophy, etc. Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:13:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on AgileDotNet Dallas 2012 by tmgirvin http://tmgirvin.com/2012/01/24/agiledotnet-dallas-2012/#comment-22 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:13:07 +0000 https://tmgirvin.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-22 The conference was a blast for me. I really enjoyed meeting new people and visiting with old firends. I looked like all the sessions captured audience attention. I felt like the opening keynote went well, too, but I definitely came away with some refinements for the next deliveries. Speaking of which, AgileDotNet Houston is exactly 2 months away. I guess it’s time to get the conference schedule up on the site and start letting people know. And since I won’t have to write a keynote from scratch, hopefully I’ll be more organized on the rest of the conference.

]]> Comment on AgileDotNet Dallas 2012 by Robbye Rob http://tmgirvin.com/2012/01/24/agiledotnet-dallas-2012/#comment-21 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:59 +0000 https://tmgirvin.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-21 I had a great time at the conference and met some amazing people. I would recommend this to anyone that has projects and teams. It was more than just Business vs IT.
Keep up the great work at Improving.

]]> Comment on WinRAR–Do the developers use their own product? by Robin Robbins http://tmgirvin.com/2012/02/10/winrardo-the-developers-use-their-own-product/#comment-20 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:58:10 +0000 https://tmgirvin.wordpress.com/?p=23#comment-20 I think a lot of developers concentrate on the requirements and how to provide bells and whistles without thinking of the actual users.
I started to develop with jQuery a few years ago and I kept trying to inject a cool widget here and there, but every time some one would ask “Why is that happening, I don’t like it..”
So now I just listen to the users or what I like to call “Client Designers” and let them talk about the bells and whistles when we are going over the wire frames.
In my last success story, the client actually called my interface SEXY..

So don’t put in stuff just because, make it useable and informative and make sure it works.
BTW – I always tell everyone that my software is only as good as the Test Cases used to test it.

]]> Comment on Blog Reboot by Robin Robbins http://tmgirvin.com/2012/01/22/blog-reboot/#comment-19 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:53:27 +0000 https://tmgirvin.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-19 It’s about damn time… :)

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