- Develop Iteratively - to reduce risk and improve quality
- Manage Requirements - because software requirements usually evolve rather than materialize
- Use Component Architectures - because we expect software to be flexible over time
- Model Visually - so that business people, and software people can develop a common understanding of the system requirements and design
- Continuously Verify Quality - because mistakes caught late in the process can cost 200 times more
- Manage Change - because change is an unavoidable fact of software development projects.
I'm getting up to speed on Azure and the other cloud SDKs and need to configure an environment for development, demos and learning. My experiences... First off, if you've read my blog, you know I haven't installed non-productivity software on my core OS for years . Further, I don't get the warm and fuzzies installing CTP software on my core OS. I also love the recoverability and start-over-from-a-checkpoint features of virtualization. Virtual PC (VPC) houses all my development, demo and learning sandbox instances. So, let's start off with a VPC instance. For this to work well, ideally, you need a good 4GB of memory. Further to the ideal, you're running x64 so as to have access to the full 4GB of memory. ACQUIRE AN AZURE SERVICES DEVELOPER KEY To develop against Azure and/or .Net Services and SQL Services, you need an invitation code. Oooh, very exclusive. Pretty people to the front of the line! You can start the process here . If you run into problems, che
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