If your not using source control for your coding projects, get off my lawn. 😛 (#JustHadToSayIt) Now that I’m only reaching people who use source control (serious developers), I’d like to ask that you focus hard to only commit changes that belong to a single topic at a time. Think SRP for code commits/check-ins. What […]
Read MoreOur team is thinking a lot about work boards right now. By work boards, I mean those information radiators in your hallways and team rooms you use to visualize your work. Work boards could be anything from a formal Scrum Sprint Backlog to a Kanban board to a simple to-do list. Most of them are […]
Read MoreThere are a lot of screencasts, recordings of user group gatherings and conference talks available online. I try to commit myself watching at least two new talks every week, and I’ve been doing this for quite some time now. I created this list of online talks that I really enjoyed watching. I’ll also be updating […]
Read MoreAs mentioned in the previous blog post, I?ve been learning Clojure and I decided to do so while practicing a couple of coding katas. The second kata that I want to walk through is the bowling game. First, we needed to decide which testing framework to use. Our choice fell on Midje, whose syntax looked […]
Read MoreI’ve been learning more about the ins and outs of Clojure lately, so I decided to practice a couple of katas. The obvious first one is the Fizz Buzz kata. Here’s the code of my first take: (defn fizz? [number] (zero? (rem number 3))) (defn buzz? [number] (zero? (rem number 5))) (defn fizz-buzz? [number] (and […]
Read MoreTL;DR Check out a dinky little Exception Message Beautifier site I threw together so you can quickly format .net exception messages and easily see the StackTrace. Go to the site: CLICK HERE Background Over the years, I?ve worked on projects where application exceptions were saved to a SQL database. When querying the logs […]
Read MoreAnyone learning about DDD, CQRS and/or event sourcing has probably read the source code of Greg Young’s simple CQRS example at some point or another. This is one of the simplest examples possible demonstrating the practical side of CQRS and event sourcing, originally developed using .NET. I made an attempt to rewrite the source code […]
Read MoreHave you ever arrived at work and sat down, not exactly sure what you were working on the day before? You spend some time going through emails. Start looking at your codebase, maybe the last couple commits you made trying to get back into the mental groove you were in the day before. There is […]
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