I’ve spent this week in London, attending a course on best practices and design patterns. The course was aimed at .NET developers, where the following was the main targets in terms of what we were to learn: Solve complex programming problems using design patterns Deliver bug-free code using test-driven development in Visual Studio Create layered…

Day 2 of the course continued where we left of yesterday, namely with topics in regards to test-driven development. So far this day was the one with the most design patterns in it, as we went through a whole bunch in chapter 4. We also started on chapter 5, however I think it’s best to…

Monday night I arrived in London, ready to attend .NET Best Practices and Design Patterns. Yesterday we had our first day. In the classroom we’re 9 students, and there’s three attending online. There was about an hour of introductions and practical information before we dived into the first module of the course, so lets do…

The last four weeks have been intense. At work we had a tight schedule to be able to release our software before the vacation time, with a lot to do (meaning overtime, and a lack of energy when coming home). At home there’s been a lot of stuff happening with our appartment, which I’ll probably…

Last week NDC took place in Oslo. Unfortunately I were not able to attend this year, but I were able to attend PubConf, which took place the day after NDC ended. ##The what Not quite a conference; Not exactly an after party; Inspirational conversations with amazing developers This is what PubConf is described as on…

All my life I’ve been using graphical user interfaces for applications that have provided it. It’s been quicker to get into, and I have never really liked the command line. What I’ve noticed lately is that I’ve been trying to use the command line more. Just typing commands, instead of moving the mouse all over…

Recently I started listening to the podcast called Developer on Fire, hosted by Dave Rael. Each episodes features a guest, and the whole idea of the show is that Dave talks to each guest while they tell their stories. The show describes itself like this: Podcast with inspiring interviews with successful software developers, architects, testers,…

Over the last week, I’ve had some serious issues with my Windows 10 installation, running on my Mac Mini. It started early last week, where I had some difficulties with my wifi. The wifi have had issues earlier as well, but now I actually got sick of it, and though I’d try to fix it.…

As I wrote in my post, Cloud based back end service, I have been using Parse for data storage for my two apps, “Din Lokale Dyrlege” and “Parker Gratis”. Now however, it is time for a change. Not because I want to, but I am forced to do so, since Parse is shutting down. ##New…

At Build 2016 it was announced that Xamarin would be included with Visual Studio, at no extra cost. It would also be included with Visual Studio Community Edition, rendering it completely free, which is great news. Anyway, when the update for Visual Studio became available I installed it and went to test my Xamarin apps…