Shifting gears // The need for speed!
Blog Series Index: The current application we are developing has been around for a long time, more than 10 years. Over time, it has grown…
Author: Rouan van Dalen
Keeping things simple – a challenge all teams face
Ahhh, the most given advice in the software development word: “Keep it simple.” (Next to “don’t repeat yourself“.) The advice that is easy to give,…
Designs should be documented and kept up to date
Some people think that doing a design or documenting the design is not important. I often find that this is the perception of people who…
The zenhackers manifesto
– Productivity and happiness. 1. Use technology, concepts, constructs that keep you productive and are easy to use. Avoid technology, concepts, constructs that frustrates you.…
The mystery of the disappearing IIS session state
At the company I work for we are running a few MVC.NET web applications. One of the applications started behaving funny halfway through 2015. Users…
Getting started with Common Lisp
LISP languages have always had a certain appeal to me. In the hands of a LISP professional, it almost seems like magic. On the other…
Finding a new Linux distro for an old laptop
Recently I have been looking at my old (very old) laptop and wondering if I can kick some life back into it. It was running…
Lenses in C#
I first read about lenses in my adventures with Haskell. A lens is an accessor for getting/setting a field in a data structure. There are…
Unit testing in C#
Every now and again I need to write some tests to make sure a piece of code works correctly, but I do not have any…
Almost PI
While doing some light reading on the “interweb” I came across the following interesting interview question: Given that Pi can be estimated using the function…