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How to optimize your culture for learning, growth and collaboration
At the first day of QCon New York, I attended several talks and open-spaces that had some relation with culture, be it about improving the efficiency of developers, handling disagreement in respectful way, and creating an environment that embraces the learning experience. For instance, one of th...
A Git collaboration workflow that provides feedback early and fast
At Aviva Solutions, we’ve been using Git for a little of over two years now and I can wholeheartedly say that after having worked with TFS for years, we’ll never go back… ever. But with any new technology, practice or methodology, you need to go through several cycles before you find a way that w...
How to get the best performance out of NHibernate (and when not to use it at all)
Use the right tool for the right problem A very common sentiment I'm getting from the .NET community is the aversion against object-relational mappers like NHibernate and Entity Framework. Granted, if I could, I would use an (embeddable) NoSQL solution like RavenDB myself. They remove the object-...
The magic of hiding your NuGet dependencies
Welcome to the dependency hell While working on a little open-source demo project, I ran into that well-known challenge of NuGet dependency management again. This little project results in a NuGet package, that on itself also relies on other packages. Now, if I would just add those dependencies ...
The definitive guide to extending Fluent Assertions
Some background In my recent post about the responsibilities of an open-source developer I said that the author of an open-source project is fully entitled to reject a contribution. In the case of Fluent Assertions, this is no different. Some things just aren't a good fit for a general purpose a...
To DRY or not to DRY, it is a matter of boundaries
For a very VERY long time I've been convinced that aggressively refactoring your code in such a way that every piece of logic is repeated only once is a good thing. This practice, often referred to as DRY, or Don't Repeat Yourself, has been one of the many of my tools of choice and goes hand in h...