My worst stand-up(s)

Reading this story about the worst daily scrum ever made me think about my own experience. An both actually reminds me of what happened in the linked story.

What is technical debt really about?

When you think about the reasons for reducing technical debt; what do your think about?

Dependency injection with IObservable

Just when I started working on my little toolbox I read this series on dependency injection for events which was great inspiration.

Unexpected Progress

When I was working on the WithProgress extensions I learned something about Progress<T> that I didn't expect.

Evolution of a handrolled fake - part 5

As you may know if you followed my blog before; I like to roll my own fake. For interfaces it is pretty straight forward with explicit implementation of the interface and properties with delegates for implementation.

Task-based Asynchronous pattern - for your pleasure

If you liked my old series of articles covering TAP and especially the different extension methods I showed. Then you will be even happier now.

The 7th impossible thing - Tests for tests

A couple of weeks ago I had just read Dan North's article about how he saw six things he thought he would never see because they were impossible. I had no idea I would myself see the seventh impossible thing just a few days later.

Throttling requests to your azure website using IP

A few weeks ago the dynamic IP address restriction feature was announced for Azure Web services.

Estimating projects

Several years ago I told a story about a project that proved that estimation was a waste of time once the work was split up in small enough chunks. Not necessarily equal size of chunks but manageable size chunks. But sometimes you need to do estimations because somebody wants to know the cost of some project or large feature.

1973 days later

Exactly 1973 days ago I moved away from my private blog and started writing on my MSDN blog. I have now decided it is time to move off the MSDN platform since I want more control over what is going on here. You should expect the same type of posts as before.