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How Flowdock helps you get better cross-team collaboration
Is your inbox also filling up with loads of emails all part of some kind of discussion where each reply contains the entire history again? Do you also get all kinds of notification emails from build servers, source control systems, and other things to which somebody is supposed to react? Do you o...
The C# Coding Guidelines are now open-source!
The ability for an organisation to request the original Microsoft Word files and adapt them for internal use has always been an important recommendation of the C# Coding Guidelines. Since I first published the PDFs on CodePlex in 2009, I have received numerous requests for that, but the process h...
Universal Apps, WP8.1, xUnit2 or what else is new in Fluent Assertions 3.1
Yesterday, much later than planned, Fluent Assertions 3.1 as well as its companion project Fluent Assertions for Xamarin were released on Github and NuGet. As is becoming quite common this year, the honors for most active contributors once again go to Adam Voss and Oren Novotny. Next to being the...
QCon New York Day 3: Humans and engineers, Career Development, Remote Teams and Culture
Building a NoSQL database Man, my brain still hurts from the first two days, especially around all the clarities of micro-services. But, longing for more information, day 3 started with another keynote. Not as good as yesterday's, but the story about how Amazon build their own NoSql database con...
QCon New York Day 2: Freeing people, imperfect architecture, lean coffee and unanswered questions
That was the weirdest conference party ever. No music, no dancing, just free food and beer. Well, our of me, two Austrian guys and a fellow from Dakota had plenty of great stories to share. And did I mention the free beer? Freeing people and optimizing the tools As any good professional would do...