Find out how to take it for a test run! — The relentless march of the .NET release schedule continues at an impressive pace! Even though the gloss on version 7 hasn’t had a chance to fade, version 8 stands on our doorstep, poised for release in November 2023. The .NET team has announced a wealth of new features to pique…

I do quite a bit of travelling for both work and for pleasure, but regardless of why I’m travelling, I always travel with my laptop and a few accessories. I’ve been doing this for quite a long time now, and I think I have distilled down the perfect ‘mobile-office-in-a-backpack’. With…

Have you been thinking about trying Rust? Get started in seconds with VSCode and Devcontainers! — Rust is the new kid on the block, and it is currently — and quite rightly — generating a lot of hype. There are a lot of reasons to like Rust, but I think that they are well covered in many other articles. …

My thoughts on the challenges faced in the execution of the fourth agile principle — In this post, I am going to suggest that to build good software, developers and business people have to get much much closer together. I eagerly await the howls of derision from both sides in the comments below! I’m going to write this post talking about two ‘camps.’ Business people…

My thoughts on the challenges faced in the execution of this principle — The next in this series of posts predicated on my assertion that Agile has failed (…to deliver on its promise). I think that the simplicity of the Agile Manifesto has been a partial cause of its downfall. The twelve principles that are listed all seem to be intuitively a good…

Exploring the implementation challenges faced with the Agile principles — Last week I posed the question “Have you read the Agile Manifesto?”, and started a series of posts looking at the 12 agile principles, and having a bit of a dig into the implementation challenges. I feel that Agile has failed to deliver on its promise. I think that the…

And have you read the Agile manifesto principles? — Hands up how many of us in here work in an Agile team? (All hands go up) Hands up who has read the Agile Manifesto (Some hands go up) Hands up who believes that the management and directors of their company have read the Agile Manifesto (No hands go up) …

Am I becoming a bit of a Docker dev environment bore…? I hope not! This time around I’m going to present a really compelling Docker use case, that I think can have an immediate impact for pretty much any size of dev team. This is my favourite one so far! …

Next up in my series on dong fun things with Visual Studio Code and Dev Containers, I am going to set up an Angular front end, and of course, build out a dev environment using Docker and Visual Studio Code. You can find the code that accompanies this article on…