Yoyo you wonderful bear followers, I hope today finds you well and for those of you in the UK I hope your snow-related torment hasn’t been too painful to endure and you’ve all stayed safe 🙂 In the shower today (apologies for the mental imagery!) I started to mull over what I would tell someone, […]
Hi there wonderful people! I hope everyone is keeping well and remembering to be awesome :o) The great wave of life has risen up and crashed back down a fair few times in the last handful of months which has, in turn, lead to a serious drought on new content; apologies for this. Being brutally […]
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 […]
Hi all, Continuing on with the idea of coding snippets, here’s a follow up showing the (very similar) procedure for creating snippets in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). As before, you’ll need a file with the ‘.snippet’ extension to begin, which contains a snippet in an XML format. A basic example is shown below for […]
Hi all, This post forms part of a mini-series that I’d like to do surrounding the topic of code snippets. I have, for some time, been using these merrily within Microsoft SQL Server (which I’ll cover) but have neglected to look at creating custom snippets in every other environment I am privy to. Time to […]
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