Author: Anders Abel

A Product Owner Crisis?

With scrum practices getting the development team’s work under control and out of an ad hoc process, the problem is often just moved to the product owner. From a developer’s perspective that’s good, because it makes it clear to everybody what the product owner’s responsibilities are. Introducing scrum practices to a development team is always… Continue reading A Product Owner Crisis?

Automatic Marking of Required Fields with EditorEntryFor

Using an EditorEntryFor helper makes the code DRYer and opens new possibilities, such as automatic indication of required fields. A small addition in one helper method will mark all required fields in entire MVC web application. It’s more or less standard to indicate required fields in a form with a red * next to the… Continue reading Automatic Marking of Required Fields with EditorEntryFor

Code or Configuration or Configuration in Code?

With DevOps bringing source control to configuration files and publishing to production servers being automated – bringing both code and configuration over on the same time, the difference between code and config has become less than ever (if it even exists). A few weeks ago I reread Mike Hadlow’s brilliant post The Configuration Complexity Clock.… Continue reading Code or Configuration or Configuration in Code?