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Ingredients for well-designed OWIN middleware components - Part 2
In my last post, I talked about naming conventions and reducing the number of public dependencies, the first two ingredients of a recipe for well-designed OWIN middleware components. In this post, I'm going to talk about separating the OWIN pipeline construction from the middleware defi...
Ingredients for well-designed OWIN middleware components - Part 1
My main focus the last couple of months has been on building components that offer HTTP-based services. This whole component-oriented focus is something we've been focusing on the last year or so because we wanted to actively trying move away from building monolithic systems. Tools like OWIN, NuG...
Why you should abandon TFS and adopt Git
Almost every time I do some kind of talk somewhere, people ask me for advice on how to convince their management that they should drop Microsoft Team Foundation Server's source control system and move over to Git. In this post, I'll be talking about the source control system only. Both Visual Stu...
False positives and semantic versioning
As part of stabilizing an upcoming release, I always dog food a beta package against the 12000 unit tests in one of our bigger projects. In the early days, that would surface all kinds of edge cases I never thought of. In every single case, the first thing I would do is to add a new unit test to ...
How we document stuff
A recurring topic in every software project I've been involved with is what to document, when to do that, and where to store it. So it wasn't a big surprise that at a recent event, somebody asked me how we track and communicate design decisions. I initially pointed him to an article I wrote in Fe...
It’s not about what you know right now, it’s what you’ll know in the near future
Unless you're looking for some really specific skills, hiring somebody purely based on somebody's current skills is the worst thing you can do. In my current position, I regularly get to do job interviews, both for my current client as well as for my employer Aviva Solutions. And while evaluating...