Category: Development

In Project Development Context Switching

Most developers are acutely aware of context switching. Your working on a new feature in a sprint when the business comes to you with a urgent production bug from last release. You have to switch contexts from what your working on, remember what your did last release and figure out the problem. That’s a pretty
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.Net’s Stagnation and Brain Drain

Recently Justin Angel posted an essay he’d written titled “The Collapse of the .Net Ecosystem, V3”. It’s an interesting read and very well could be flawed in many meaningful, statically and logical ways. But if you haven’t popped your head up in a while there are noticeably less .Net jobs then there were in 2006-2010.
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Decisions Set in Stone

We’ve all had these moments, your driving and trying to do it unaided (no GPS, no map). Maybe it’s a Sunday cruise to clear you mind or your on you bike and don’t want to pull over to whip out your cell phone. You come to a fork in the road and you make a
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