Being Cellfish

Lately I've been discussing estimation a lot with both colleagues and friends so I guess it is time to go at it again. As I've menti...

I recently listened to a developer podcast about the async/await feature in .Net. And I was terrified when the host asked about using those ...

I try to live by the motto; starting the debugger is a failure when it comes to code I write. That means that through logging and just read...

Most people I've worked with that needed a collection of some sort have implemented the collection by inheriting from one of the standar...

There is this old article that I wanted to discuss for a while and now is the time. If you'd rather say technical dept user story inste...

From time to time people implement something that they want to use in a fire-and-forget fashion. Typically it is some non-critical service ...

The excellent first part of Xbox history has been followed up with a second part.

Developing web services there is an anti-pattern that I often see slip through the cracks and that is when HTTP constructs bleed through abs...

One topic that seems to come up regularly when teams try to be adopt agile is how to deal with bugs. Since these teams typically give Scrum ...

Over the years I've encountered organizations and individuals that all have different levels of service monitoring maturity. I figured i...