I’m honoured to have two sessions approved for NDC 2014 in Oslo in June. I’ll be talking on “Strangling the Legacy out of an Application” and “Using the Scrum Rules Against your Boss”. If you are a frequent reader of my blog you know that diving deep into the code and using agile methods are… Continue reading Speaking at NDC 2014
International Women’s Day and the Software Industry
Today it’s the international women’s day (IWD). A day that should make us men in the software industry think about why so few women study CS and why so many of those who did, never establish a career in the industry. What do we men do wrong, when women don’t feel welcome? I won’t even… Continue reading International Women’s Day and the Software Industry
Why did the Respect for Tech Skills get Lost?
Technical skills is the core of any development project. In the end it is the skilled programmers that write the code that forms the product. Everything else is just support to ensure the coders develop the right features in the right order. But somehow management tend to look at the developers as the lowest level… Continue reading Why did the Respect for Tech Skills get Lost?
Rerunning all Unit Tests with Different UI Culture
I was recently made aware that some unit tests for Kentor.AuthServices were failing on non-English computers. To handle that, I set up an Azure VM with Swedish installed and made a special unit test that would run all other tests with different UI cultures. When I first understood that I had tests that were broken… Continue reading Rerunning all Unit Tests with Different UI Culture
Add a Language to Windows Azure Visual Studio VM
I was recently made aware that some unit tests for Kentor.AuthServices were failing on non-English computers. To be able to test a different setup I turned to Azure and set up a machine with VS2013 Pro and installed Swedish language support. Once I found the right way, it was very straight forward. The problem was… Continue reading Add a Language to Windows Azure Visual Studio VM