Introduction My organization wanted to help employees understand the value of the IDesign Method(both the System Design, aka architecture, and the Project Design). To that end we ran a team-building exercise involving Legos. We broke into small groups (3-4 people each) and assigned each group a Lego kit. The twist: no instructions, not even the box. …
I recently watched a terrific video on learning, especially as it applies to new technical skills: Making Badass Developers – Kathy Sierra. In this video, Kathy discusses that you have various skills, and they are each at certain levels–essentially 3 levels (roughly unacquired, in-process, and mastered). And what causes many of us stress when you are …
Found an interesting crash in VS2015. I reported it on the MSDN forums. Essentially, devenv.exe itself actually instantiates WCF singletons in your solution. It does so even if they aren’t being hosted by your startup project(s), in fact even if they are in projects not even referenced by your startup projects. And, if devenv.exe’s constructing of …
Here’s a book I meant to read last year, but didn’t get to until this year: SOA Patterns. Last year I attended an evening presentation by IDesign architect Petar Vucetin. At the end of the insightful session, he cited the SOA Patterns book. I knew that a recommendation from an IDesign architect is not wisely ignored, so I …
How many of you software geeks have been through a corporate Agile transformation? Did it at first seem as though everything was going to get dramatically better? As though you’d be unleashed to really do your work, and that no longer would useless processes hold you back? How did it turn out? Did the organization …
For those into WCF, Juval Löwy’s 4th edition of Programming WCF Services is out, including coverage of the Azure Service Fabric. To those of us who have taken classes with IDesign, this is an important book that helps make a challenging yet powerful framework approachable. Many teams realize all too late that some of the infrastructure features …
Lately I’ve been learning more about Azure. There are a ton of resources for Azure, but the one I’ve been using lately myself is entitled Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure, by several authors including Scott Guthrie. One caveat: As is often the case, these books get outdated quickly. If you download the PDF you’ll find …
Chrome Sync is a dog, no doubt about it. I’m converting from Firefox to Chrome out of security concerns: Chrome sandboxes its content to insulate web content from the computer, while Firefox doesn’t. But bringing over my nearly 8000 bookmarks is causing problems. It appears that the way Chrome works is that, right when you …