Intuition and discipline, coding for my soul
I recently had some discussions about TDD. I personally never tried to accomplish the procedure seriously. So I wanted to invest a little time to understand if it does fit to my needs, especially if it
Quite a while ago I had a good talk with an colleague about „to log or not to log – that is the question“. đ That was a longer discussion, and a lot of questions had
In last post about Are Extensions the beauty or the beast? I added a screenshot that showed a class implementing the repository pattern. This actually also showed the implementation of our log strategy. I did get some
The other day a collegue of mine came to me, being pretty enthusiastic. He was amazed about his latest changes to the code. As I am the responsible architect, it is my turn to have a
We need to move people from time to  time between products. It can be tough when you move from SSIS/ Sql/ SAP stuff to job-based Excel automation. How can we make a hard task easy? The very
Last pull request I’ve opened was some kind of disappointing. When going through the code files, I detected a lot of… questions marks above my head. We do use pull requests for two reasons actually:
Quite a while ago I was sitting together with another programmer to review the brand new sources. It was created as a prototype, a proof of concept. The original product has been rewritten for several reasons: The UI shall
I recently had a session about proper exception handling and, more intensively, defensive programming. As exception handling is one of the most important as well as one of the most unattented tasks of a developer, the session