In this post, we’ll continue the Lean Software Development and Kanban Systems series by concentrating on Principle #1: Eliminate Waste. “Muda” is Waste in Japanese. In the next part of the series, we’ll dive into Principle #2: Create Knowledge / Amplify Learning. And I am going to be a little obnoxious about listing my Lean [...]
Last year I took myself through a crash course on Lean Software Development and Kanban Systems in preparation for an in-house presentation. I learned a bunch. In this series, I’ll be sharing what I learned with you. If your career looks anything like mine, you have probably been affiliated with a company or two which [...]
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I was thrilled to find Cory LaViska’s jQuery Context Menu Plugin a few months ago. In very little time, I was able to integrate the context menu with the jQuery Treeview. I quickly had a really pretty user interface which took full advantage of limited real estate. And guess what. As promised, the plugin worked [...]
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The MVCContrib Grid allows for the easy construction of HTML tables for displaying data from a collection of Model objects. I add this component to all of my ASP.NET MVC projects. If you aren’t familiar with what the grid has to offer, it’s worth the looking into. What you may notice in the busy example [...]
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I bounced around between projects a lot last week. What each project had in common was the need to validate at least one SQL connection. Whether you have SQL tools like SSMS installed or not, this is a very easy task if you are aware of the UDL (Universal Data Link) files. Create a new [...]
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