Steven Smith | 02 Feb 2012 02:27

Laptop Rebuild - Essential Apps

Steve Smith writes "....When we last saw our hero, he had fallen victim to an evil plot to disable his computer’s ability to boot up.  After great efforts at recovery, eventually he was forced to concede defeat to Vista and reinstall everything from..."
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Steven Smith | 02 Feb 2012 02:27

Stories Too Big - Vertical Slices

Steve Smith writes "....I have a client who lists as one of the key challenges with implementing agile practices with their teams as managing to define user stories that are valuable but not too big.  This is actually a very common challenge, and one that we run into..."
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Steven Smith | 02 Feb 2012 02:26

XBox 360 - Home Media Center

Steve Smith writes "....Recently I picked up an HP MediaSmart EX470 Windows Home Server to help consolidate my files at home and to provide a simple backup solution.  It’s been great and it’s an extremely economical way to get backups.  You can hook..."
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Steven Smith | 02 Feb 2012 02:25

Learning To Code with the Azure SDK - Show Me The Code

Steve Smith writes "....I’ve been working with Azure off and on since last summer, and like any new API or platform, there are hurdles involved with the learning curve.  This is especially true for pre-release software that is rapidly changing and of course has..."
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Steven Smith | 02 Feb 2012 02:24

Outlook Send Mail Infinite Loop - Message in Outbox

Steve Smith writes "....Last week I encountered a problem with Outlook that I’m happy to report I’ve just solved.  I found a bunch of things on the Interwebs that looked like they might be useful, but none of the fixes there did the trick for me (of the..."
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Steven Smith | 02 Feb 2012 02:22

DevReach Online 2010 - Software Fundamentals

Steve Smith writes "....  I just finished my DevReach Online presentation, A Whirlwind Tour of Software Development Fundamentals.  In this 45-minute talk, I covered what I consider to be fundamental principles, patterns, and practices of software development,..."
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Steven Smith | 02 Feb 2012 02:22

Code Review Singleton Pattern Issues

Steve Smith writes "....One of my applications relies on a singleton pattern to create a single instance of a server which processes requests from many different ASP.NET handlers.  It is created using pretty much standard Singleton code: public static Context..."
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Steven Smith | 27 Jan 2012 21:25

Reviewing Scrumban the Book

Steve Smith writes "....I’ve been reading a bunch of kanban and lean books recently as I work on my Pluralsight course on Introducing Kanban (not published yet – will link to it when it is).  The most recent one I’ve finished is Scrumban, Essays on Kanban Systems for..."
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Steven Smith | 26 Jan 2012 20:43

Updating Blog to Orchard and Switching Domains

Steve Smith writes "....So, yesterday I posted a review of the new Asus Ultrabook and, as has become rather predictable lately, the virtual web server hosting my Graffiti-powered blog started having 100% CPU for quite a while after the post went live.  Now, I don’t..."
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Steven Smith | 25 Jan 2012 23:13

About Steve

Steve Smith writes "....Hi, I'm Steve Smith.  I go by Ardalis online because, well, you'd understand if your name was Steve Smith. This is now the fifth place I've had a blog, if you don't count my initial home page and articles on ASPAlliance.com, which were somewhat..."
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