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Knowledge Transfer in Times of Technology Change

Knowledge Transfer in Times of Technology Change

Let’s face it: Technology changes in software development aren’t rare events, they’re practically the background noise of our industry. Especially in the evolving .NET world, where frameworks, tools, and deployment models are constantly shifting, staying on top means more than just learning new tools or technologies. It means preserving, sharing, and actively managing knowledge before it walks out the door or gets buried in yesterday’s code. Because here’s the kicker: Much of your team’s know-how isn’t in a shared wiki,…

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NDC 2014

NDC 2014

I attended this year’s NDC (Norwegian developer conference) in Oslo. It was a very interesting conference, but as a short summary, it saw something like a consolidation. JavaScript – as some people say in its fourth generation (Simple Scripts, AJAX, MVC-Framworks, SPA) – is finally accepted as a language like C# or Java. Also in the agile world there is no hype anymore about Scrum or Kanban. It was more how and when to use it.One major topic, which I…

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My personal wrap-up of the NDC 2012

My personal wrap-up of the NDC 2012

I was at the Norwegian Developer Conference (NDC) 2012 in Oslo. It is one of the best conferences I know in Europe. One reason is, that a lot of alpha-geeks are speaking there. There were during three days 8 parallels tracks, so you have to manage your program. My program looked like this: Wednesday, 6.6.2012 Keynote, Aral Balkan Decisions, Decisions, Dan North Professional Software Development, Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) Agile Estimating, Mike Cohn Modeling Distributed Systems with NServiceBus Studio,…

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Who should make decisions about technologies?

Who should make decisions about technologies?

One of the biggest problems of software engineering companies in Switzerland is currently to get new software developers. To get new employees there are several points as for example salary, environment, career possibilities and technologies. The last point looks easy but in reality it isn’t that easy. Why are essential technology decisions (like languages, frameworks, application servers or big libraries) not only made by developers? Why does the management mostly make those decisions? In this blog post I try to…

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Jenkins and .Net

Jenkins and .Net

This week I visited the first JUG’s event in Bern. The topic was Jenkins (fork of Hudson). The presentation of Dr. Simon Wiest was very entertaining. He explained continuous integration and showed how easy it is to install, configure and run Jenkins. .Net integration in Jenkins Jenkins is from the Java ecosystem, so it isn’t obvious to use it in a .Net environment. But one of best thing of Jenkins is that there exists a lot of plugins. So, there…

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