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2014-07-31

Lying with statistics and StackOverflow

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A recent article on StackOverflow performance brought some memories back; how easy it is to lie with statistics.
2014-07-24

How object calisthenics can save the night

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Last week we had a 24 hour hackathon at work. And I ended up using an old trick I've mentioned before.
2014-07-17

Azure Load Balancer Nuggets

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Up until recently I assumed the azure load balancer just was a simple round robin balancer.
2014-07-10

Writing async tests

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Ever since async/await was introduced in .net 4.5 I've seen people happily using those keywords in their (unit) tests. A usage I believe...
2014-07-03

Avoiding conditionals to improve code

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Last year Michael Feathers wrote an article about unconditional programming which in essence is just an idea to avoid any type of control s...
2014-06-26

Enforcing parameter names

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In the late 90s I was asked to teach an "introduction to C for programmers" course at a large Swedish company. Turned out that my ...
2014-06-19

Configuration files or APIs

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Configuration files is something we have always been familiar with and with cloud services I think more and more configuration has started ...
2014-06-12

TDD helps you enforce the single responsibility principle

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When I was writing last week's post I also thought about how TDD (or rather BDD) has helped me to early detect violations of the single...
2014-06-05

Will TDD really drive your design?

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One of the most common arguments I've heard from TDD skeptics is that TDD does not drive your design. And this statement is both true an...
2014-05-29

Xbox Live History

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Having worked in Xbox Live I often get questions about its past.