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Consultants are Evil? First of all I want to confess – I’m a consultant and I’m working as a consultant for a few years. This post is written as a response for a conversation that I had with a friend today. The friend and I worked for more than two years together before I became a consultant and he learned to respect my opinions. The Conversation Details In the conversation, my friend asked me if some solution is practical. In his workplace he is working with another respectful consultant which is...
HTML5 Adoption Strategies One of the questions that I got in the session that I delivered today was how to adopt HTML5 today? Since this was a very good question I decided to share what I think about it. Why Do We Need Adoption Strategies? You might ask yourself why do you need an adoption strategy for HTML5? The answer is simple. HTML5 includes many specifications that evolve in different rates. Therefore, the specification support in browsers is complicated to implement for the browser vendors...
Balsamiq Mockups Tool As part of a project that I’m currently managing and developing, I was in a need to design UI mockup for a sample web application. I didn’t want to use Visio or Word for this task since I think that it is an overkill to use such “monsters” for a simple (but very important) task. So I remembered Scott Mitchell’s MSDN Magazine article and his recommendation for the Balsamiq Mockups tool. After I read the article last year, I evaluated the tool in the online demo and it...
What to Look in an ORM Solution? One question that I sometimes being asked is what to look for in an ORM solution or more properly which ORM is preferable and why. The decision which ORM to choose is very crucial to the project development since after you start developing it will be hard to go back and use another ORM solution. Since there are many ORMs out there, here is a checklist that will help you to evaluate ORM solutions and to pick the one that fits your needs: Basic Features Can handle inheritance...
.NET Reflector is Becoming a Paid-For Product Red Gate announced a few days ago that .NET Reflector will become a commercial product from the end of February 2011. Here is what Neil Davidson, Red Gate’s Co-CEO, wrote as an open letter to the .NET community: ”Red Gate has announced that it will charge $35 for version 7 of .NET Reflector upon its release in early March. Version 7 will be sold as a perpetual license, with no time bomb or forced updates. As many of you know, our original intention was...
Book Review – Entity Framework 4 In Action I spent some time lately to read the book “Entity Framework 4 in Action” which was written by several authors – Stefano Mostarda, Marco De Sanctis and Daniele Bochicchio. This book was sent to me by Manning Publications as part of the Manning Early Access Program ( MEAP ). What You are Going to Gain from The Book? The book is all about Entity Framework 4. The authors don’t assume that you are familiar with the technology and they take you to an Entity Framework...
Finding Good Client Web Developers is Hard Today I had a meeting at a customer. One of the things that we talked about was the difficulty in finding good web developers. To be more accurate, the difficulty in finding good client web developers! Since I have lots of experience in interviewing candidates, I really understand that guy's problem. He published his company’s job requirements and seek for an experienced client web developer and all the candidates that he interviewed so far didn’t know...
Book Review – HTML5: Up and Running In the last two weeks I read the book “HTML5: Up and Running” that was written by Mark Pilgrim. Since I’m and always was a web guy I always like to read about the things to come and HTML5 is a specification that is heading our way very fast. What You are Going to Gain from The Book? The book is about HTML5 which is a specification that is being written in these days and will be the de facto standard in the next years. Since reading all the specifications would...
Improving Your Developer Skills I’ve been asked twice this week by two different colleagues from where to start in order to improve yourself as a developer. This question is very tricky and probably you’ll hear a different answer from every person you ask it. Also, in reality the “recipes” you get won’t necessary work for every person but they can be guidelines for improvement. This is a short version of my recipe and what I told my colleagues. Read Books This is an important thing to do when you...
Recommended Post - Black Jack Using Scrum Yesterday, Shai Raiten, a colleague and a friend of mine, published a very original and funny post that describes a custom strategy of wining in “Black Jack” game based on Scrum Methodology . If you didn't read the post I'm recommending you to do so. Here is the link for the post - " Black Jack Using Scrum – Winner Winner Chicken Dinner ". Enjoy!
EFProf – Profiler Tool for Entity Framework One of the important tools in your tool arsenal when you develop with an ORM tool is a profiler. Like SQL profiler to a SQL Server DBA an Entity Framework profiler is a must have tool to Entity Framework developer. The main reasons to acquire such a tool are to understand what is going on underneath the hood in the query engine and for performance tuning. If you think that you can use Entity Framework without knowing what it is committing to database then...
The Need for Source Control Last week I’ve been at a customer. The problem – non responsive UI since all the application run on the UI thread. So I took a look at the code and… I don’t like to tell about the horrible code I saw but to share a very painful problem I have seen. Even though source control systems are very common, there are customers that can make you “shout” at them when you come to a consulting session. In this customer controlling your sources in a repository tool like TFS,...
Too Much Abstractions? Follow up I asked a question about how to know when you have too much abstractions in your code? and do more abstractions implies better design? I promised to do a follow up post and give my humble opinion. So here it goes. As architect I’m using abstractions a lot. It allows me to hide the implementation details and create API’s for my consumers. Also, it lets me the ability to change the implementation at a later stage of the project if I need to and of course it makes the...
Book Review – Clean Code – A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship Today I finished reading Robert C. Martin’s wonderful book - Clean Code – A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship . The book is all about writing quality code. It is full of examples of good and bad code and a lot of suggestions for how to write a better code base. Even so the examples were written in Java language I encourage .Net developers to read this book only to learn the concepts that are presented by the...
Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 A few months ago I bought a new mouse. I needed a mouse that could also act as a presenter tool in order to assist me in my presentations that I am delivering from time to time. So I talked to some people and asked for their recommendations. I also searched for details about presenter tools in the internet and in the end I found the Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 very suiting for my needs. The Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 is more then...
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