http://www.artofprogress.com Your thoughts become our actions Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:11:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A database is a collection of facts. A man with two watches never really knows the time. http://www.artofprogress.com/2008/02/two-things-about-database-design-a-guide-for-newbies.html Recently I posted the following question on LinkedIn: I often come in to businesses or groups that are growing rapidly. In these situations it seems inevitable that there is someone who has been on the team a long time, has a monopoly on technical knowledge, and refuses to share his experience ... http://www.artofprogress.com/2007/12/how-are-information-hoarders-best-dealt-with.html Today I was reading about the medical practice of triaging and thinking about how it relates to software development. A software development triage is a common practice for projects in trouble. So how does one set-up a successful triage for their project? What is a triage? A triage is a way of ... http://www.artofprogress.com/2007/11/setting-up-a-triage.html Build automation is the foundation of continuous integration. Continuous integration helps to identify problems quickly - sometimes immediately - before they delay your project. Whether a continuous integration build is executed immediately upon check-in or scheduled to run nightly, at the heart of it lies the automated build process. (For ... http://www.artofprogress.com/2007/09/the-art-of-build-automation.html The following list of tools are useful for practically every software development project - onshore or offshore, distributed or local. Often, however, these tools are overlooked and a lot of time gets wasted trying to solve problems that could have been solved or mitigated by good tools. Let's take a ... http://www.artofprogress.com/2007/07/tools-for-every-project.html Is design dead? The short answer: no. The long answer is in this classic article by Martin Fowler. It covers misconceptions of where design practices fit into XP. It's a long article and if you need to read it but don't have time, consider the irony that you do not have ... http://www.artofprogress.com/2007/05/extreme-programming-and-design.html Communication issues abound in the corporate world. With offshoring, such problems can become exaggerated to the point of exasperation: Not only can you not work with your team face-to-face, but there are timezone differences, and language barriers can cause misunderstandings and frustration. It does not have to be this way. Here ... http://www.artofprogress.com/2007/05/tips-for-communicating-with-an-offshore-team.html There are many articles on adding meta tags to ASP.NET pages. Most involve adding meta tags programmatically, either directly in the page or by having all pages inherit from a base class. There is a better, simpler way. Ready? Here's the secret: Use a ContentPlaceHolder. That's it. Try it for yourself. Here's ... http://www.artofprogress.com/2007/03/how-to-use-meta-tags-with-aspnet-master-pages.html Welcome to www.artofprogress.com, home of Art of progress LLC. While the initial place-holder for this site was up, we published the article How To: Use Meta Tags With ASP.NET Master Pages. Thanks to this article and Google, artofprogress.com was getting visitors from all over the world before it was even ... http://www.artofprogress.com/2007/03/hello-world.html