20 years on: Why co-location is no longer a requirement for Agile
How many times have you heard someone tell you that co-location and face-to-face interaction are some of the most important features of Agile? I’m guessing the answer is: A Lot. Agile has 12 central tenets, which can be read in less than 60 seconds, this is the Agile Manifesto, the…
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Code Hoarding
Life as a software developer is probably not what most people think it is, many imagine coders as we are portrayed in films or series; sun-shy nerds sitting in darkened rooms hammering away at keyboards in a code trance creating the software that will change the world! Yeah not really,…
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Validating Classes using Data Annotations
We’ve been beefing up our validation routines recently as it became clear that we needed to add a lot more protection to our Validation Engines in our NetCore project. We use EFCore Code-First to generate our database in which we have a large number of Data Annotations such as: Our…
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Optional One to One Relationships in EFCore
My company is currently working on replacing our venerable WinForms application with a shinier ASP.Net MVC version and rather than just re-write everything as a slavish “lift and shift” approach, we’ve gone for the bolder approach of completely re-designing the whole thing from top to bottom. Cue buzzwords such as…
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Hello World
“Hello World!”, you’ll often see this chirpy piece of text in relation to computer programming and I think it’s highly appropriate that my first post on this blog is in keeping with that tradition, but where does this come from? Before I started to write this post I thought I…
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Terry Pratchett
Software Developer and owner of Jarrett Solutions Ltd, I’ve been developing software since I discovered the coding manual of the ZX Spectrum / Amstrad CPC and things have kind of escalated since then.
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