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Continuous refactoring in its natural habitat
So over the last three weeks or so, after the kids went to bed, I’ve been working on some new features for Fluent Assertions . While doing so I went off track several times in an attempt to improve several API’s and internal designs that didn’t felt quite right. Since this thought process is repr...
Slack? An even better cross-team collaboration tool?
Two weeks ago, I talked about Flowdock, an online tool to aggregate multiple sources into a single environment where agile teams can work together. I also promised to look at an alternative service named Slack. When we introduced Flowdock, somewhere in November 2013, Slack was still in its very e...
You don’t know what you don’t know
More or less since the start of my assignment at my current client, four years ago, we have had some form of a cross-team stand-up at 10:00 every day (often named Scrum-of-Scrums). But now that we have around 10 teams, we started to notice some issues lately. People joined too late or didn't even...
The curious case of a deadlock in Autofac
It has been more than two years since we switched from Microsoft Unity to Autofac and we haven’t regretted this a single day. Not only is the resolution performance much better than Unity, but it’s the feature set, in particular the relation types, that makes a world of difference. In terms of co...
How Flowdock helps you get better cross-team collaboration
Is your inbox also filling up with loads of emails all part of some kind of discussion where each reply contains the entire history again? Do you also get all kinds of notification emails from build servers, source control systems, and other things to which somebody is supposed to react? Do you o...
The C# Coding Guidelines are now open-source!
The ability for an organisation to request the original Microsoft Word files and adapt them for internal use has always been an important recommendation of the C# Coding Guidelines. Since I first published the PDFs on CodePlex in 2009, I have received numerous requests for that, but the process h...