I really enjoy my job. I understand some people code for food, and it’s fine. But some passionate people are also frustrated. For them I’d like to share some tips. I think most of them can be applied whatever your job is, but I can only testify as a developer. […]
Today is another day where a data model lealking into my business model ruins my productivity. So let’s talk again about impedance mismatch please. Relational data model We are all used to relational database. Back in school we learned how to design 1-n or n-n relationships and how to manage primary and foreign keys to manage […]
Since 1 year I try to write more blog posts. I’m performing at least 1 pomodoro per week to write drafts. I don’t feel pressure about publishing these drafts though, sometimes I do, sometimes I throw them away, and sometimes I merge them into a single post. I think it […]
Like for dependency injection, heritage and composition are easily misundertsood. We remember that programs written in Oriented Object Programming (OOP ) are designed by making them out of objects that interact with one another. Technically, we have two possibilities to share code in an OOP style: either composition or inheritance. […]
Working mainly on .NET legacy project since a few years, I often meet the same kind of problems. One of them is a bad usage of Inversion Of Control (IOC) Containers, or Service Locator to magically access everything everywhere in the code. Just like a giant singleton. I think these […]
I don’t feel comfortable when I hear people explaining how hard we should work to be “successful”. Mainly because “success” is subjective, it only makes sense in a given context. For example, Uncle Bob in The Clean Coder asserts that a professional developer must work around 60 to 70 hours per week. 40 […]
We all know the “no time for tests” death spiral. First we take exceptional shortcuts to ship something because “we have to ship it now but we’ll do better next time”. Of course next time we have even less time, we have to add features, we can’t really fix the […]
I regularly see a lot of questions around MVVM, last one only a few weeks ago. The problem is usually the same: what should be a Model, and what should be a ViewModel? We can’t really blame developers, because references online are not really good, especially MSDN’s one. The explanation […]
If you decided to use a Panorama control in your Windows Phone application, then you will be as disappointed as I am to discover Microsoft remove it from the Universal Windows Platform. With a quick search on the web, you see it should be easy to replace with a Hub […]
To manage login/logout on a Nancy application, it seems pretty simple, according to the existing documentation. But all the examples I found assume that my navigation is manage server side, thus it works if you use return LoginAndRedirect() or LogoutAndRedirect() Now let’s say you want to manage your navigation client […]