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Speaking at the .NET Usergroup Zentralschweiz

Speaking at the .NET Usergroup Zentralschweiz

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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…

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Know your warm-up

Know your warm-up

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I was this month in Berlin at the NHL match between the LA Kings and the Buffalo Sables. Half an hour before the game you could watch both teams doing a warm up session (see photo). They practice the techniques, moves and collaboration which they will use during the game. After the match I asked myself, how do we do a warm up? How were we introduced into the development environment of our current employer? After how many hours or…

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Grooming your code base

Grooming your code base

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When you’re doing Test Driven Development (TDD), it’s in the process: Red-Green-Refactor. Refactoring doesn’t only mean to improve your new code, it is also important to make your existing code nicer. If you are a .NET Developer, then you should have the Visual Studio Add-on ReSharper. With this tool you get a marker bar which you see right hand side of your editor. On top of this marker bar you have a little square which shows the worst found item…

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Branch or not to branch

Branch or not to branch

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That is a question? Yes, it is a question which you should ask yourself before to create a new branch or reuse an existing branch. There are other practices or possibilities to create new features in an existing software, which I will show in this blog post. Also there are some issues with branches and modern software engineering practices, which I will discuss here too. First I show you two techniques how to avoid branches: Branch by abstraction (BBA) and…

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Do frameworks kill design skills?

Do frameworks kill design skills?

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Software design is one of the most important skills a software engineer should have. But what is software design exactly? If you search for a definition you find something like this: Software design is a process of problem-solving and planning for a software solution. After the purpose and specifications of software are determined, software developers will design or employ designers to develop a plan for a solution. It includes low-level component and algorithm implementation issues as well as the architectural…

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