For a long time your workflow customization inside Azure DevOps was limited to choosing one of the pre-defined process templates. All other forms of customization you could do with the on-premises installation of TFS where not possible in Azure DevOps (or Visual Studio Team Services for those who are more familiar with the old name). …
We can use many attributes to describe a good application: changeable, future-proof, well designed, or flexible are just a few of them. What does this mean? Is this just a challenge for the most uncommon word pair? Or is there something behind those words that we can measure? My work gave me a good example …
We can create a lot of software in a short amount of time. However, code is not everything and there are many important aspects of our application we can’t find in the code. If we document the decisions we make today, then we have a written explanation to help our memory in all those cases …
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 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 …
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 …
In the last few weeks I posted a series of articles on log messages. Starting at the missed opportunities, continued with the great power of structured logging with Serilog and different sinks to the helpful dashboard of Kibana. With that entire infrastructure in place we are now able to turn log messages into knowledge. And …
This year’s NDC Oslo was once more a remarkable conference. Great speakers doing 9 parallel tracks for 3 days crated an enormous amount of content. So far I can give you an overview on the sessions I attended. It will take me some time to catch up on all the other sessions I want to …
Dogfooding, as in use your own software, is a great way to find the pain points in your product. When you build a project management tool you could track its progress within that tool. If you are annoyed to insert the same values over and over again so might be your users. To improve this …