Task estimates; the very real enemy of the developer. The numbers you provide for a task or piece of project work (whether this is in hours, days, story points, etc.), as an ‘estimate’, are often not being viewed as an approximation by all involved. This particular subject is covered, rather marvellously by Robert C.Martin, aka […]
Howdy all, I am a bit of a customisation nut; pretty much with any software package I pick up I have the uncontrollable urge to dig straight into the options and get on the hunt for how to ‘theme it up’! The one that probably upsets me the most is poor old SQL Server Management […]
Happy New Year all! New Year, new opportunities, new me….right!? I’ve been taking some time out to focus on a) learning a new domain/related technologies to make sure I have a solid footing in my new role and b) having some time out over the holidays. As such, it’s been hard to focus on creating […]
Hi all, Just a very quick post on an interesting piece of LINQ knowledge demonstrating how to find common matches between two C# lists, whereby you want to include multiple matching conditions. To start, here is a typical LINQ statement (and setup) dealing with a single join condition, using the extension method approach (which I […]
There was no need for this post to exist or for these four hundred and thirty-eight (with brackets and other nonsense) random lines of C# code to even see the light of day. For some unknown reason, I woke up over the weekend and spent an hour watching Gordon Ramsay YouTube videos when I came […]
A very short piece on my current, off-the-wall, opinions on my little SEO journey so far and the shenanigans we’ve faced up to this point. Ok, so it hasn’t been that bad! Plus it’s interesting I have opted to use ‘spoons’, and not just a singular spoon. It looks like I plan to gouge out both my eyes […]
Where have I been you may ask! Apologies for the lack of content, we’ve (included my wife in the equation here) hit a sizeable brick wall of work. I think this has been mentioned previously, but I’ve recently started a new position and this has involved me spending a good dollop of time getting acclimatised; […]
Howdy all, Firstly, a big old fashioned apology for not being ‘on-the-wire’ much over recent weeks. It’s been an interesting time having accepted an exciting new job, which is amazing; but I’ve also had to contend with a few other sizeable life-boulders off to the side. Nothing I can’t handle, of course, so here I […]
Hi there, A little aside this one; something very, very cool that I’ve noticed with the advent of Visual Studio Update 2. Without question, this rates as a MUST CHECK OUT Visual Studio feature. The first complaint (and a valid one, no question about it) in regards to the C# Interactive Window was that running […]
Hello, This is my coup de grâce into coding snippets, which completes this mini-series (for now, at least). I wanted to do a tiny bit more Python, so began investigating which IDE to look into next: Stackoverflow – Which Python IDE Best Python IDE The Eric IDE project caught my eye initially, and definitely looks […]
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