Unit testing is great for the cases you anticipated. Unfortunately, bugs tend to show up in the ones you did not. Property-based testing helps to bridge this gap. …

What if you could look at your current job situation through the same lens as you make investment decisions? When looking at your investment portfolio, you will normally aim at a tolerable risk level and then seek to maximize the returns within this risk. Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) has two…

Estimates are a pain. How often have you done estimates, only to have them dismissed with, “You have 3 weeks”? I will show you a path out of this misery. The aim of this article is to provide a method that allows somebody with primary expertise outside the field of…

Debugging tends to be a painful experience for most developers. In this article, I will show you a few tricks, that will make your debugging experience more comfortable. I will be doing examples in C#, but the methodologies should apply to other languages supported by Visual Studio as well. Override ToString Methods: The…

How to analyze our organizations the same way we analyze software. — Companies spend lots of resources to keep their software systems highly available and resilient. But what about the teams building it? Most software developers face the daily challenges of developing complex systems. …

So your code using the MSSQL server is not as fast as it used to be. This article will explore how you can make your queries run faster, or at least get a good idea of where to optimize (often with very limited effort). Tools of The Trade In order to get started, you…

A value object is a design pattern in which an object is made to represent something simple, like currencies or dates. A value object should be equal to another value object if both objects have the same value despite being two different objects. In this article, I will dive into…