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: The need for doing review sessions goes down dramatically The team learns to improve each other while not being upset when anthing […]
Author: holgerleichsenring
Azure Service Bus: Massive count of listeners and senders
We recently went away from Azure Cloud Queue to migrate to Azure Service Bus. There had been a lot of reasons. One of the most important facts had been that we chosen Azure Cloud Queue due to performance. When we started decvelopment in a project with that technology middle of 2014, this was true. Let’s say […]
Evolution of methodic
Let me take you to a short journey how I started with programming, where it went to, and how the actual methodic, thinking and doing evoled. This will have the following posts: It all started with i=i+1 Melting the metal Going to Windows 3.11, I need (MS) access Why is there any system without a database? Going to VB6 […]
Evolution of methodic: It all started with i=i+1
Let me take you to a short journey how I started with programming, where it went to, and how the actual methodic, thinking and doing evoled. This will have the following posts and this is the first of it: It all started with i=i+1 Melting the metal Going to Windows 3.11, I need (MS) access Why is there […]
Cloudfogger rocks
Some months ago I wrote about leaving Cloudfogger behind and going to Boxcryptor. I had to set up a new machine and things went wrong. There was a mean issue with Cloudfogger on machines that host Hyper-V guests. Neither the host nor the guests could be correctly restarted or shut down after Cloudfogger had been […]
C# 6.0 Null-Conditional Operator and robustness of code
Today I had an interesting chat with one of my colleagues. He sent me this link talking about the new improved C# 6.0 features. Quite interesting stuff. He had one special thing to discuss about and pointed to these lines code. It is about the null-conditional operator, certainly: My buddy asked me what do I think about […]
What are good interview questions or how to get the big picture?
Here we go again, need to employ a new guy that is hopefully very smart, intelligent, friendly, enthusiathic, creative, assertive, service-based… and yes, he should be capable of programming ;-). In the last months we did a couple of interviews, and I still adjust the questions and points of interests to check out if the guy at […]
Running macros in Excel from c#
Here we go again, it’s Excel and sometimes I feel like Peter Pan tries to catch his own shadow. You may not believe it, but a shadow can have some kind of grip. The day before yesterday one sales guy called me. As usual, these guys are in a hurry. Next day there is a presentation, […]
MVC & Databinding: What’s the best approach?
We’ve got some serious movements in the product development. And it goes straight in the right direction. There are three product teams, all of them want to use at least a variant of MVC. What is right approach? MVC? MVP? Passive View? Supervising controller/ presenter? MVVM? There are a couple of questions to be answered before being […]
Keep your pace
Some days before I was talking to a friend of mine. He stayed in the company that I left more than four years before. As we worked together for a long time we had some chats about how to improve, keep pace, hearing the heartbeat of the technology as it is evolving… and surprisingly he […]