If you ever debugged code that had a list, you wished you could see more than the namespace and class name for the elements in that list. Today we look at one of my favourite features of OzCode to solve exactly that problem. This feature is called Reveal and is easily overlooked. Your lists normally …
A good testing strategy may reduce your bugs tremendously. However, some bugs may still slip through and can only be found on your production environment. Today we look at a great feature of OzCode to isolate problematic data to use it in regression tests. Let’s imagine you got a bug report, verified that the bug …
The .gitignore file is a great help to ignore certain types of files (like *.exe or *.dll). A little entry in this file and you no longer need to remember only to check in the files you really need but not the other ones. However, there are situations in which you need to add files …
The 10th edition of the NDC (Norwegian Developers Conference) in Oslo was the best I ever attended. Kjersti and her team made everyone welcome and created a friendly and familiarly atmosphere. This is no easy task, especially not with 2000 attendees. But even at this size you always felt a personal touch and if you …
There are so many podcasts for developers that it is hard to keep up. In the last few months I spent a lot of time listening to podcasts and found 3 that I must share with you. Legacy Code Rocks My favourite podcast so far is Legacy Code Rocks hosted by Andrea Goulet and Scott …
The network attached storage appliances from Synology, called DiskStation, are great backup devices. They come in various sizes and don’t need much maintenance. The only thing that is a bit annoying is the password prompt whenever I use rsync to backup my files. With public key authentication over SSH that problem can be solved without …
The NDC 2015 in Oslo was once more a blast. Two days of pre-conference workshops followed by 3 days of a content-packed conference with up to 10 parallel tracks resulted in an incredible learning opportunity. This year more than 1’900 attendees from over 50 countries attended a well-organized conference and turned it in a great …
Visual Studio Online is a great service for developers. Not only do you get a whole Team Foundation Server for free, you also get a place to host your private Git repositories. As long as you use Visual Studio everything works as expected. However, that changes in the moment you try to use any other …
I use the service of Travis-CI now for a year. In that time the continuous integration has often pointed out problems I never had on my machine and let me quickly fix them, while I still know what the last change was about. If you don’t already use a service like Travis-CI you definitely should …
Last week I was at the Soft-Shake conference in Geneva to speak about Xanpan and Metrics Based Decisions. This year’s conference was a little bit smaller than the last one, but it could still offer 8 parallel tracks on both days. Being back was nice experience and made all a bit simpler. Metrics Based …