by David | Jun 1, 2019 | Architecture, Clean code, Deployment, General
MuCon 2019 (or µCon) was hosted by Skillsmatter in London and is a conference for Domain-Driven Design and microservices. I was able to attend and I thought I would share my experience. Fervently writing notes during the sessions and now sharing them really helps to...
by David | May 6, 2019 | General
unsplash-logoStephen Dawson There are many ways to measure if your team is doing good. There’s the Joel test or maybe you can measure story velocity (don’t do that). What I was missing though, was a simple quantitive way to measure a few simple things...
by David | May 18, 2017 | Development, General
When you get incoming requests and/or emergency tickets it’s important to be able to classify these properly to know whether you should stop what you’re doing or possibly if you should be doing it at all. This topic came up in my team the other day and at...
by David | Oct 9, 2016 | General
These past weeks we have focused on planning at my client. We’re figuring out the next steps in the product and this requires a lot of communication. As engineers I find that at times we focus completely at our trade. Often though, good or bad, we spend a huge...
by David | Aug 10, 2014 | Deployment, Development, General, Tooling, Tools
There’s always that time when you set up a new environment and want to get to that file registered in %PATH%, like msbuild in the developers console or something. You Google or dir /s and eventually find that files but always wonder, is there...
by David | Jul 15, 2014 | Development, General, Testing, Tooling, Tools
We’re using a nice vSphere ESXi 5.1 host for a lot of our VMs at work and today I found myself unable to get proper mouse and keyboard capture in the VMs. It just acted really strange, sometimes I could get mouse capture when I was outside the VM and as soon as...
