Web Hosting and Windows Azure
I ended up putting this site on my College provided web space since I have easier access to it if I do something wrong, but my first deployment was into the cloud! I found an article about hosting a...
View ArticleThe "box-sizing: border-box" means less complex math for grid designs!
One of the least enjoyable aspects of current website design is the need to add and subtract padding (or is it margin and also the border) from the width of elements in CSS design layouts. This post...
View ArticleResponsive Web Design on EktronTV
Josh Daugherty and I were recently featured on a recent EktronTV Office Hours discussing Responsive Web Design duiscussing our work on the new Hendrix Website. Thanks to Bill Cava (Chief Evangelist at...
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Image Resizing, Cropping, and Caching Server Side
Responsive web design puts a new wrinkle into the standard design constraint of using images in your web designs. You need similar images resized to different resolutions, sometimes cropped in slightly...
View ArticleFleshing out Product Backlog Items
One of the biggest challenges we have faced with Scrum is creating meaningful user stories for our backlog items. I recently came across an interesting article on "storycrafting".BeforeNeed to get...
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Building a Scrum Board
I just returned from my ScrumMaster certification training in Kansas City and have been refining our work process accordingly. We decided to build a physical, index card based scrum board in the...
View ArticleCleaning Up Team Foundation when a Developer Leaves the Team
Occasionally someone leaves a development team. It could be a long time team member or a contract developer who has completed their project. Aside from all the physical office changes you have to make...
View ArticleWindows 8 and the Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client
So Ben and I have both had this problem, the VPN client wouldn't launch no matter what with Windows 8. Turns out all you have to do is edit one registry key and it'll work again!You might see error...
View ArticleFeature Estimation
After several months of Scrum we've come to a consensus on our user story point estimation which is well summed up in this article about PivotalTracker:Point Estimate Guidelines1 or 2 points for typos...
View ArticleClick Once Deployment in Windows 8 and the Smart Screen filter
We have several applications that we install with ClickOnce to keep versions up to date. Unfortunately with Windows 8 we've been getting horrible SmartScreen notices that this code might be unsafe!!I...
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