Keeping current is an important part of the disciplines used by software developers. It is time consuming and rewarding. It can be done in concentrated blocks through conferences or coursework, or sporatically on a regular basis. In response to this topic Dilip shares his approach to keeping current. It is humanly impossible to keep pace with changing technologies. So, we […]

Pair Programming is an Agile concept that is difficult to see the value until you experience it personally. In fact, the more difficult you find it to focus, the harder it is to accept that the practice can work. Here are some things I have experienced making it more effective. Have a separate keyboard and mouse for each member of […]

I can’t keep up. At least it seems like things are moving so quickly that I am not able to become an expert at anything. That’s just the way it feels, anyway. I remember starting with ASP.Net web sites. Then we moved to ASP.Net web applications, MVVM, MVC and now we have MVVC. We were doing SOAP, then we converted […]

Code and Systems Reviews – Do You Do Them? We’re working through a number of systems to upgrade some processing, address the whole responsive thing and so-on. It amazes me how code and solutions just sort of "accumulate" over the years. Fix this, add that, change this… it all adds up to a lot of potential for areas ripe for […]

Recently I have been talking with companies interested into getting into automated testing. They tend to be overwhelmed with the differences in the different products and the approach they take to testing. Web application system testing has never been easy. Some sites are nearly impossible to test because of the way the html is built. Individual attributes as we would […]

Little Data a Thing? When talking with a few different people, I’ve heard references to projects pulling in the breadth of data collected – I call it "little data" – basically running the other direction from efforts to capture everything and anything for analysis. Are you seeing this – or considering this in your application work? The pull in this […]

How do you protect your IT resources from corruption or theft? The job continues to get harder as our need to be online increases. Today we are seeing more and more devices that need to be connected to corporate resources for efficiency and productivity of our employees. Ooften those resources are not company owned or managed. My smart phone today […]

I have been using ReSharper from Jet Brains for years. This isn’t a promotion for ReSharper. One thing about the tool is that it provides for you optimization hints for how you write your code. On thing I have noticed that it does is prompt you to modify all for type loops into Linq queries. I’m wondering if that really […]

Have You Found That the Cloud Brings Discipline? The opportunity brought by cloud-based services is one of high-availability, scale and cost management. But it does come at a cost. You may be facing an architectural overhaul to truly take advantage of the cloud. We certainly have faced, and continue to face that fact. We’ve had to rebuild everything from data […]

Some Interesting SQL Server 2014 Elements SQL Server 2014 has some pretty amazing features. In-memory is clearly a pretty major area of enhancement and is something worth looking at and understanding as you work through architecting your solutions. Overall, if you’re not yet aware of the differences brought to the table by in-memory optimized operations, it’s all about speed and […]