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Welcome Eric Anderson

Today at Headspring we’re pleased to have Eric Anderson on board.  Eric’s been hanging around the Austin agile software development community for a few years, and he’s been to many of the ALT.NET conferences, including the last one in Seattle.  It’s exciting to see the company grow in the right direction… welcome Eric!

A few thoughts

Microsoft wants you to think of a web page as an action, but it’s really a collection of subcontrollers. Mahendra Mavani is one of the very talented software engineers working at Headspring and he knows all the obscure Resharper shortcuts (serious geek cred). Coding is an indulgent, wasteful activity.  Design is best done away from [...]

User Story Execution Process Select (story | task) from story wall Move task card to “In Progress” column Model code that needs to be written (use object model and sequence diagrams) Create technical tasks needed for completion Get team member to review design Mark each technical task as “pair” or “single” Test-drive code to completion [...]

Headspring

On a personal note: I recently joined Headspring Systems in Austin.  I have been presented with a great opportunity to learn and succeed.  I feel very green but I’m prepared to grow.  And I’ve already had the chance to observe first-hand liberating architectures, agile thinking, and expert code craft… I do intend to learn in [...]