The answer is yes. Microsoft is killing off Silverlight. Don’t underestimate the truth said in the PDC keynote: Microsoft is going the HTML5 way. But this is not a review of the he said/she said MS is playing for the last week. It’s about the risks associated with selecting a technology, or making an architecture
A couple of posts I read lately made me think. Again. The first one is Elisabeth Hendrickson’s on whether testers should write code. Elisabeth focuses on the perception of the tester in agile team. From Elisabeth’s research it shows that testers in teams (not only agile) are expected to be able to code. The research
I had a discussion today about the name “unit testing”, and its connotations. I’d like to remind you, dear reader, that the audience of this blog is already aware of the goodness that comes with unit testing. Unit testing is part of our day-to-day work, and also for people just starting to get interested in
In the last couple of months, I’ve been doing some hefty juggling. Being a very disorganized person naturally, doesn’t really reconcile with managing multiple suppliers, following up, and making sure I don’t become a bottleneck. For my agile viewers – I’ve tried post-it notes. I found out that this didn’t work when working with external
Every alt.net meeting is exciting for me. This time it was the 4th one since we started doing this three years ago in Israel. The final discussion we had was how to get more people into alt.net. Here are a few points that came up during the discussion. The numbers of people coming really doesn’t
Sometimes things I do actually work.So I thought of putting them in writing. Best case scenario, you, the reader, might get something out from them. Worst case – I made you laugh or just feel pity. It’s a win-win either way. There is an overarching theme here: process analysis. These are things that I become
Some people think that by blaming Microsoft, I’ve removed the responsibility of self development from the developers themselves. These are two separate things.Developers who want to expand their horizon, enhance their craftsmanship, will find ways to do that. And because there are so many sources, they will probably not get it just from Microsoft.But we
After the LIDNUG presentation, we stayed online to discuss unit testing experiences. A couple of things stayed with me from that talk. One: we’re (we developers) are obsessed with tooling and technology (you didn’t expect hard news here, right?). Our main focus should be about solving the business problem first. But, us geeks, we like
Last week I gave my “unit testing in the wild” presentation on LIDNUG. It was nice, and once the recording is up I’ll get all the info. But I wanted to talk about the experience. First of all: people, I’ve hit the jackpot. I’ve hit on one of the best ways to extract gold out
I’ll be presenting on the next LIDNUG’s online presentation, Thursday, July 22nd, 11:00AM to 12:30PM PDT/PST (GMT-8). My presentation will be about “Unit testing in the wild”. I’ll show how to test real code, that happens to be in real life. Expect the unexpected. Ok, and code examples in different technologies, like SharePoint, WCF and