Managing configuration for multiple environments in .net projects with Rake and Configatron

When it comes to project management, I tend to favor the less-is-more approach...

The title say it all. All cross-cutting concerns in a project should be handled or given some thought on ALL PROJECTS. No exceptions. No excuses.

Reality about software development. The image on this blog post says it all ;-) Cheers to every coder !!!

Few months back, I got below joke emailed to me by my friend who is also a passionate coder. In my personal (and humble) opinion, below joke hits jackpot with the current state of 9 out of 10 IT companies in India, which are headed by people who have zero or very little technical background. And per...

This is a great article. I just wish some of my previous employers would have done just a few of these things. I probably would have stuck around longer.

Lessons learned: Patching SharePoint servers and configuration management.

An often overlooked area of Web Projects is quoting. Many developers continually hone their programming and design abilities, however, few value quoting ability as a necessary tool. Here are some steps for better quoting.

Scrum is organized around the following roles: * Product Owner - Determines what functionality is needed * ScrumMaster - Leads the Scrum and is primarily responsible for making sure the Scrum process is followed and removing impediments that keep the Team from working * The Team - T...

I know many developers that work in all sorts of environments with all sorts of benefits and all sort of negatives. With all these developers and all these environments, benefits, and negatives, what exactly makes the perfect job environment?

Jeremy Miller discusses why "over the long run a flat team of generalists with healthy overlap between skillsets will blow the doors off a hierarchical team composed of specialists"

They are grave difficulties finding managerial talent in India.

partial list of those tips. Some of them can be seen in various “Agile” methodologies, but taken as simply tips, they can improve the quality of your project-life without needing to work with any specific methodology. Heck, just call it “Osherothology”

This is a simple technique. Avoid the ivory tower speak and put your ideas into practice. Notice I didn't say to have your team put your ideas into practice. The best leaders are those who lead by example. The rest are simply managers. Be creative and be edgy, but never forget where the rubber m...