.NET developer at Appyparking, Pluralsight Author and Microsoft MVP
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Technical debt is usually seen as a negative factor in a development process. While having too much technical debt is indeed a good indicator for a project gone bad, technical debt is not always a bad thing. What is technical debt? When you start writing code…
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Of all the practices implemented to improve code quality, such as unit testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment, daily stand-ups, I find the most important one is doing proper code reviews. Code reviews have a lot of advantages: It’s much easier…
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Build 2016 is finished and as always it was great to see Microsoft bringing new opportunities to businesses and developers. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend, but luckily, the live stream of all the important sessions, especially for the keynotes, made up…
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In the wake of the issue with NPM, I wanted to share my view and experience with dependency management. First of all, what happened? I’m not going to go too deep on what actually happened (there’s plenty of information about that), but essentially, because of…
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Why? In ASP.NET MVC, applications are divided into horizontal layers, which is reflected in the project structure: Controllers Views Models Scripts Style It’s a good idea to divide you application into logical parts. While the idea of horizontal slices might l…
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With the proliferation of REST API’s, external ones and internal ones (think microservices), we very often find ourselves depending on these external services in our applications. Usually we have some designated class in front of the access to such a REST API…
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In my previous post about probable new features in C# 7, I talked about Tuples, Record Types and Pattern Matching. These are the most obvious candidates for inclusion. In this post I want to highlight a few more new features that are not getting as much attent…
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It seems like only yesterday we got C# 6, but as it goes in software development land, the next thing is already on its way. In this post I want to describe the most likely new C# 7 features, what they look like and why they’re useful. C# 7 Tuples Update 22/0…
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Much has been written and said about programming in “the zone”. Most articles give you tips on how to get in the zone and keep there. I haven’t found any article though that challenges the usefulness of ‘being in the zone’ (If I have missed some, please let me…
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The test pyramid is a concept that was developed by Mike Cohn. It states that you should have an appropriate amount of each type of test. In the pyramid he distinguishes different types of tests: Exploratory tests: Performed manually by a tester System tests:…
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Automated acceptance tests play a vital role in continuous delivery. Contrary to unit tests though, they’re quite hard to get right. This is not only because end-to-end testing is harder than testing single units, but also because of the way they need to be e…