Under the hood and working with .Net, TDD, Software Design, and Agile Stuff
All developers are susceptible to the Captain Ahab moment. That one little thing in your system you just can't seem to make work. The ever elusive white whale circling the boat, taunting you with your impotence. Productivity crashes and burns in obsessive hunts over the great white whale. I'm putting down my harpoon for the moment to spend the rest of the day working on something useful. The world just isn't going to stop turning because I can't make the 3rd party grid control bend to my will, but there'll be hell to pay for missing the deadline on everything else.
About Jeremy D. Miller
Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.
