Conferences to attend this year - I love lists

I love lists!
Or as my girlfriend says to me: "Don't you have a list for that?"

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Tumblr! Not an excuse for not “blogging”

Figure: … Comic effect created with this Photoshop tutorial

Is my new tumblr stream just an excuse for not blogging??
Instead of saying:

“I am way too lazy busy to write a proper blog. I just post random stuff”

No!
It is my effort of publishing more. As I said in my 2012 retrospective I want to publish more, because I like the feedback and discussions that come out of it.

So... there you have it: Peter’s little link list + comments

 

PS
Via feedburner I get all these “tumbles” in my inbox (special folder), so I can easily search for these notes later on…

PPS
Thanks to Juri for this

 

What do you think?

2011 retrospective – a year in review

This is the 3rd time at the beginning of the year in a row, where I wanted to recap last year in a blog post. This time I am actually doing it, or let me rephrase it. This time around I actually publish my recap on my blog. "Publish more" is one of my goals for 2012 which is topic for another blog post.

! This blog post is all about me, addressed to my future self. Feel free to skip it ;-)


Figure: Goal for 2012: Avoid getting hit with keyboard from girlfriend

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Generated documentation is worse than useless (0 value) and causes pain in the future

I just came across a blog post from Ian about GhostDoc and Atominerr and had to share my thoughts here about those tools. I tried to leave a comment on his blog, but I couldn’t answer the SpamQuiz. LOL #StupidHuman

Figure: Useless but fun! 

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TFS source control - Watch your application grow like a garden

Figure: Not a garden yet, but everything starts small

On every project that I am part of, I setup an email alert that sends me an email for each check-in that happens.
This helps me to follow what's going on on the codebase and to watch the application grow. I say "grow" because we construct software by growing it like a garden, and *not* constructing it like a building.

"Architecture is a bad metaphor. We don't construct our software like a building, we grow it like a garden."
from Craig Larman, http://www.infoq.com/articles/large-scale-agile-design-and-architecture

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SQL can stink too - Code smell in stored procedures

Figure: You don't need to dig deep to find smelly code

I just found this nice piece of TSQL that I came across in a 500 line stored procedure on my current project.

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The broken window theory in the real world

I used to live in beautiful sunny Neutral Bay, Sydney where I walked along Bent Street every day. I moved back to Europe at the end of this July and just found this in my Draft blog folder..
I experienced the "broken window theory" myself, in front of my door.

18 February	23 February	1 March

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Code smell - LINQ to SQL Datacontext usage and more… - Refactoring work in progress

Following up the blog post about some major issues in the usage of the datacontext I dig into more details here.
Here is the initial blog post with an intro and the whole code

Lets start to look at the methods itself, starting with: "UpdateEmployeePositionHistory".

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Code smell - LINQ to SQL Datacontext usage and more… - Look from a bird's eye view

Alright! Lets have a look at this nice piece of code that I posted before.

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Code smell - LINQ to SQL Datacontext usage and more…

I just came across some code where I needed to fix a couple of issues in. Since I am a strong proponent of continuous improvement and refactoring I thought I blog about this good example.

 

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