I do a lot of trainings and courses in the company where I work currently. And I was also in a lot of courses too. But I think, that those courses or trainings don’t work really. The reason, why is that they are just so called "sheep dips". Sheep dip training doesn’t work The first time when I heard the expression "sheep dip" was in the excellent book "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning". It means a training where a lot of…
Usually I don’t blog here about personal topics. But as some friends know, I was some days ago in the united states – to be more precise, at the west coast. I visited the cities San Francisco, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. I was a great trip and I enjoyed the cities, the landscape (Grand Canyon) and a lot more. To be honest, one of the most things which impressed me on the trip was the service and customer orientation…
Yes, I know, the DataSet isn’t the leading edge technology, but as the company where I work currently, there are several companies who use DataSet as data access technology. Recently, I had to migrate the DataSet subclasses of the framework of my current employer to .NET 4.0 and add LINQ support. After this migration I made some unit tests and I found a surprising fact: If you using LINQ with a DataSet, then you have to handle deleted rows, which…
During a Lunch event organized by the .NET Usergroup Bern at the 7 December 2011 in Bern I will speak about the following question: Is Software design overrated? Yes, I know, it’s provocative. And obviously wrong. Really? I’m not so sure. After 10 years as software engineer and some years as software architect I saw too often no design, just a transformation from requirements directly in code. And what is the problem with that? Interested? So come to my talk,…
I’m holding at the .NET Usergroup Zentralschweiz a short talk about "Know your warm-up", see my last blog post. I’ll explain what I developed exactly and how I train new employees with this warm-up. I will also demonstrate the sample application which a new employee develops from scratch. Come to see me speaking the 24. November, 18:00 at the following address: bbv Software Service AG, Blumenrain 10, Luzern, 1. Stock. Thanks @danielmarbach and @ursenzler for having me. Update: There is…