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Tuesday, August 26, 2003 1:29 PM

Software: Engineering or Craft?

Software is such an interesting field.   We can’t figure out whether it’s a craft or an engineering discipline.   Personally, I think it should be an engineering discipline, but it’s one that’s fundamentally different from physical engineering
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Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:30 PM

Building from the command line: devenv /build

Greetings, dear readers!   Today I want to talk about using devenv.exe to build a solution or project from the command line (as opposed to interactively inside the IDE).   For example, you can say “devenv /build debug myapp.sln” to do a debug
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Thursday, August 14, 2003 2:46 PM

Solution configurations & project configurations

Greetings, dear readers!   Today I want to talk about solution configurations and project configurations.   These are important concepts that are essential to understand if you’re trying to do complex coordination of builds using VS, esp. if
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Tuesday, August 12, 2003 11:40 AM

Lean Software Development

Greetings, all!  In my recent software process readings, I came upon a great book.  It all started when I was doing some searching on the web and I stumbled upon this article in SD magazine .  It discusses how the Japanese used the concept
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Thursday, August 07, 2003 5:19 PM

I exist!!!

So, the July stats for the GotDotNet blog pages came out, and I actually showed up with a statistically significant number of hits!  I started my blog in late June, and I had so few hits in June that I didn't even show up in the June report (kind
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Thursday, August 07, 2003 5:10 PM

The Mythical Man-Month: So true it hurts

Greetings dear readers -   I have been devoting some time to matters of how to better manage a software project, and have opened up a new category on my blog: "SD methodologies & processes".  Hopefully you will find it useful.   I have
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