Mike works for ThoughtWorks as a Developer, Build Meister, Performance Guy, and general Java code monkey.

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Mike Mason (agile thinking)
Subversion 1.5 is Ready Subversion 1.5 has just been released and has a whole raft of new features that developers have been asking for. To take full advantage of all the new features you’ll need to upgrade both your server and clients, but both will inter-operate so you can upgrade gradually if you wish. Server upgrade does not require [...]
Domain Driven Reporting ThoughtWorks projects are built using best practices that include layered architectures, at the heart of which is often a domain model. The model contains concepts and business logic to support the application. The model is often persisted using an object relational mapping scheme with either custom code or a mapping tool such as Hibernate. Our [...]
Fire your dev teams (reprise) No, of course I don’t really think you can fire your entire development team and throw away your existing successful code base. Just because a blog post is spell checked and doesn’t contain swear words all over it does not mean someone is being entirely serious. I’m really disappointed in the anonymous Internet hate comments [...]
How to Post Comments My last post seems to have generated some commentary, as was intended. I moderate all comments and if you haven’t posted before it might take me a while to approve your comment. Once you’ve had one comment approved any future comments should appear immediately. I’m doing this is so I can filter out Viagra spam [...]
Startups: Fire Your Dev Teams Facebook should have fired their development team the minute they became successful. If you’re a startup and you just made it big you should take a long hard look at your software team and make some changes. I’ve worked for two startups and consulted at several more. I’m not just talking about software startups, this applies [...]
Blog upgraded to WordPress I’ve upgraded to WordPress after several happy years using Blosxom. Whilst Blosxom is a neat blogging engine and has served my needs well, it doesn’t really have all the spanky new “community” features that I’d really like. A colleague told me recently that I’d gone “dark” and that’s true–hopefully easy drafting of blog posts and [...]
Disabling Export Formats in Reporting Services Reporting Services 2005 doesn’t allow you to selectively disable export formats for your reports. You can disable export formats for the whole server, but this is a bit useless in a shared environment. For my current client, we wanted to disable XML, Tiff and “web archive” export on all of our reports, but not affect [...]
Card Infected This whole Agile thing has messed me right up. It’s not the most original idea—Joe Walnes had a card wall for renovating his house, where estimates were in money-costs rather than time—but it works well for me. I find myself getting a little stressed out when a personal project, even just “stuff I [...]
CVS to Subversion Experience Report My current client in Calgary recently switched from CVS to Subversion. Our main goal for switching was to fix performance problems with CVS, but we also hoped to get some benefit from the improved features within Subversion. The CVS repositories were on a reasonably beefy Sun box but we’d been seeing “waiting for lock” messages [...]
Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion, Take Two I’m very pleased to announce that the second edition of Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion has been published and is now shipping. As an author, it’s great to get an opportunity to update a published book, and for there to be enough interest that making an update is worthwhile. Since the book first came out Subversion [...]