Posted on January 18, 2019
– Defining a common language for discussing code quality I recently started a new task as Tech Lead for a company that wanted to improve the quality of the code produced by their inhouse team. That immediately posed the question: What is good quality? The question is hard to answer without having a common language… Continue Reading What is good code?
Posted on May 9, 2018
It’s been a while since I did my last post. A lot of stuff has been going on – change of year, change of job, change of role. I now have the role of “Integration Architect” – and my contract says “Enterprise Architect”. In a world with no official titles, these things can be quite… Continue Reading Is Software engineering actually a thing?
Posted on May 18, 2016
I recently started testing my PowerShell scripts using the Pester framework. The documentation on GitHub is excellent but I was missing a cheat sheet that can be printed and used as a reference while learning. So I created it. Download Pester-cheat-sheet 1.0.1 here and share it in your office. If you like it, please give a heads… Continue Reading Download Free Pester Cheat Sheet
Posted on April 13, 2016
I have created my first short video on how to configure Artifactory with SqlServer and Integrated Authentication. I hope to be able to produce more videos like this in the future. Below the video, you will find the same guide in a step-by-step print out. Guide for migrating Artifactory metadata storage from… Continue Reading How to configure Artifactory with SqlServer and Integrated Authentication
Posted on January 28, 2016
I have previously blogged about Onion Architecture, in relation to mobile application development, but is it also applicable to the architecture stack of your organisation? I guess it is! Beware! I will be boxing architects, knowing that in the real world, they might a little more flexible than I try to make them. But very often, they are… Continue Reading The layered architecture of architects vs. the onion
Posted on January 14, 2016
We constantly hear that new applications should use the latest and greatest application architecture… A few years ago everybody was implementing SOA and Onion Architecture, now its CQRS, Micro Services etc. But how do we make a conscious decision on which architecture to choose? The answer is Non-Functional requirements? What is Non-Functional requirements? The Non-Functional… Continue Reading Non-Functional Requirements – The basis of your software architecture
Posted on November 4, 2015
I recently participated in a meeting with a development team responsible for a certain part of a solution. The team was responsible for implementing an integration solution between two systems – one system responsible for our business logic and another system responsible for creating customer print. As the application architect, I have the responsibility for… Continue Reading It’s not in our scope…. It’s the other team!
Posted on July 17, 2014
I have just spend most of an hour to make the app I’m currently doing work on my devices. I have been working in the simulator during development, and everything has been great, but when i deployed to my iPhone, the app just stopped working. I didn’t close down, but it didn’t load completely either.… Continue Reading Tabbed Page icons are case sensitive
Posted on June 15, 2014
I just passed the Mobile Developer Certification Exam – but just barely with 80% correct answers. The exam contained a lot of questions about compilation, garbage collection etc. as well as some more general questions regarding software development. Xamarin has chosen ExamBuilder as the software provider for the exams. I had a lot of problems… Continue Reading Passed the certification exam
Posted on May 25, 2014
Over the short history of Xamarin, there has been a bunch of different ways to share code between platforms, when using Xamarin to create IOS, Android and Windows Phone applications. At first, there were only simple ways to share code, like file linking where the developer had to drag and drop files from one code… Continue Reading Onion architecture with Xamarin and PCL