Bryan Hinton's Blog

Notes from reading Lean Software Engineering Book

Bryan: Technology — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:35:23 GMT

These are notes that I took a while ago while reading the book. They have been housed in my OneNote notebook long enough – pushing them to the web where they are more accessible. Eliminate Waste Seeing Waste Partially Done Work Extra Processes Extra Features...(read more)

Community Development Opportunities at the LDS Church

Bryan's space: Technology — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:15:11 GMT

This email went around at work the other day and I got permission to reprint it here. A key initiative for the Church’s IT department is to engage with the broader community of software developers who would be interested in working on sanctioned projects...(read more)

Should Computer Programmers use company time to learn new things?

Bryan Hinton's space: Technology — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:20:32 GMT

There is a site I commonly read called Worse Than Failure (WTF – they redefined what WTF meant to them a while back to make the site more palatable to people – perhaps when they started taking ads). The site publishes programming horror stories and frequently...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 WPF Designer crashing on XAML files from certain projects

Bryan Hinton's space: Technology — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:41:11 GMT

I know that is a pretty specific title, but after wrestling with this problem for the last couple of days (with a break in there for a very nice weekend!) I figured I would try to put something specific enough for Google to index it and so that some poor...(read more)

.NET Framework Source Code to the Rescue

Bryan Hinton's space: Technology — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:50:55 GMT

On Tuesday I got a call up from a developer that was dealing with an unusual ASP.NET problem and was looking for some help. I am not an expert with ASP.NET at all, but we booted up in a Shared View session to look at the problem (that had been stopping...(read more)

A Suggestion for Windows Live and Windows 7

Bryan Hinton's space: Technology — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:14:16 GMT

In playing around with the Windows 7 bits I got at PDC I had a small idea that I submitted through the feedback link for Windows 7. The feedback is more related to how Windows Live works with Windows 7, but I thought I would submit it through that avenue...(read more)

Requirements Definition : The Danger of Failing Before You Have Really Started

Bryan Hinton's space: Technology — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:07:57 GMT

Requirements, Stories, Use Cases, or whatever a team wants to call them form a key part of the execution plan for a development team. It should tell them what a customer wants. The artifacts in whatever form they are tend to have varying degrees of detail...(read more)

Meshified Car

Bryan Hinton's space: Technology — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:02:37 GMT

I am sitting in LAX waiting for my flight home and just finished a video done by Channel 9 with Ori Amiga who is one of the stars of the Live Mesh Development team. He was showing a custom gadget that he built to integrate with his car that included integration...(read more)

Watching Internet Video in double time

Bryan Hinton's space: Technology — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:59:30 GMT

I watch a lot of podcasts and videocasts. So much so that I often wish I could watch them in a “faster” mode. Which I can do with podcasts that are in WMV format. When they play in Windows Media Player you can right click on the play button and select...(read more)

Analyzing Windows Azure

Bryan Hinton's space: Technology — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:32:26 GMT

Azure is/was the product formerly known as Red Dog. It is more than just a Cloud OS. It is a hosting platform as well (ala Amazon EC2) with components that give it S3 and Simple DB capability. The Simple DB capability comes from SQL Server Data Services...(read more)

Check out Twitter for PDC updates

Bryan Hinton's space: Technology — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:57:18 GMT

I will try and add posts here as I can – but Twitter is much better for sharing the bite-sized updates that are captured as part of sessions. You can catch my Twitters at http://twitter.com/HintonBR . A summary post will be coming sometime soon to capture...(read more)

Microsoft Surface hands-on

Bryan Hinton's space: Technology — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:50:21 GMT

Here are the pictures I took of my time hands-on with Surface Snowboard Design app App list that you can flick through Photo app grouping photos by categories Virtual Earth app – I loved it – no 3D mode yet – that would be even better – but cool to use...(read more)

PDC is finally here

Bryan Hinton's space: Technology — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:14:28 GMT

Over the last few months it has seemed like every interesting discussion about MS products has some how involved a “just wait until PDC” statement. Thankfully PDC is finally here. Tomorrow Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia kick it off with a keynote starting at...(read more)

How many choices are too many choices?

Bryan Hinton's space: Technology — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:44:17 GMT

Americans are constantly faced by a myriad of choices. When we go out to eat we have to pick between Italian, American, Chinese, Greek, Thai, Mexican, Indian, etc…. Once you have picked a type then you have to choose between Applebees, Chili’s, Outback...(read more)

Hotmail gets a Wave 3 Update

Bryan Hinton's space: Technology — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:46:58 GMT

Hotmail was updated this week as part of the Wave 3 rollout. When the Live Calendar Wave 3 update rolled a couple of weeks ago we got a good idea of what the UI for the new Hotmail would look like. I like the cleaner look a lot. In my previous post about...(read more)