tmgirvin
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2012.09.26
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Announcement, Community
Next week is Wintellect’s Devscovery in Houston at the Microsoft offices. It’s a 3-day conference/training session where speakers cover 3 tracks of content all about .NET development.
Chris Weldon and I are giving a lunch-time presentation to everyone on Tuesday about test-driven development (TDD) and playing the pair-programming game to show how well TDD can work.
When: Monday, October 1st thru Wednesday October 3rd
Where: Microsoft Corporation – 2000 W Sam Houston Pkwy, S Ste 350, Houston, TX
Wintellect has a great reputation for providing quality developer training. And they’ve been delivering this conference for years all around the US. I’m sure the Houston event will be a great one, too!
Hope to see you there!
tmgirvin
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2012.09.25
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Community
Amir Rajan and Venkat Palivela, two of Improving’s many brilliant developers, recently contributed to the Hackathon at the ATT Foundary this past weekend. This looks like a lot of fun and some great experience for high school students preparing to take on the next wave of innovation challenges.
Check out the article and video on WFAA’s website.
These two guys also contribute to open source, speak at public user groups, and do other cool stuff in the technology community. Amir even has a personal budget app in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
tmgirvin
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2012.06.19
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Announcement, Community
On 
July 10th, come join the Microsoft Cloud Summit 2012 at Microsoft’s Las Colinas facilities. Scott Guthrie will be there to deliver the keynote presentation and you’ll get to see in person the demonstration of all the newly announced Infrastructure as a Service capabilities, plus the Platform as a Service features that have just been added. The newly minted Microsoft Cloud DE (but long-time MS Developer Evangelist), Chris Koenig, will be there. Hopefully many of Improving’s devs will be there, too, since Improving is a member of the elite group of Microsoft partners in the Azure Circle. We might even showcase some of our customer experiences with Azure. Unfortunately, I won’t be there since I’ll be in Toronto for WPC.
Register now before it fills up.
tmgirvin
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2012.04.11
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Announcement, Community
We just got confirmation on the final slots for AgileDotNet Houston. Chris Tullier, the region’s Microsoft Developer Technical Specialist and Improving alumnus will be delivering the opening keynote on agile development with Dev 11. And, Markus Egger of EPS Software, a prolific writer, speaker, and Microsoft Regional Director, will be delivering the closing keynote. AgileDotNet is April 20th, so if you’re in the Houston area, register now and come see the industry’s best and brightest!
tmgirvin
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2012.02.10
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Do They Use It
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geek
I’m starting a recurring topic here called “Do the developers use their own product?” because I keep seeing “features” of products that make me think that those who develop a product don’t use it. They can’t or they would fix this crap. Here’s a feature that’s been frustrating me for years.
The WinRAR progress bar is wrong. It’s status doesn’t make any sense if you have a multi-segment RAR file. It often only shows status of the first segment. Here’s an example of a file being reconstructed from 10 segments.
See how the progress bar says it should be finished? Well, it should show about 30% because it’s on the 5th out of 16 segments. Why has it been like this for years and many versions? Don’t the developers and product owners of this product use it themselves?
tmgirvin