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What it takes to turn a group of people into great colleagues
At Aviva Solutions, we have a unique tradition to celebrate our annual anniversary in some foreign city or at a warm beach in the south of Europe. During such a weekend, you're free to enjoy the local culture, go shopping in the local area or just relax at a terrace or the beach. Next to being a ...
Fluent Assertions supports .NET 4.6, CoreCLR and .NET Native
With all credits going to Oren Novotny, Tommy Long, Stuart Blackler and some of the Microsoft folks behind the .NET Core projects, Fluent Assertions 4.0 introduces support for the new platforms .NET 4.6, CoreCLR and .NET Native. Since Fluent Assertions has adopted the Semantic Versioning scheme...
12 things professional software developers do
Quite recently me and a coworker had a lively discussion on what constitutes a great software developer, or, in more blunt terms, what separates the professional from the amateur. This got me thinking about the things I currently think are crucial in any professional software developer. Here’s my...
A reminder on why every software team can benefit from Scrum and/or Kanban
At my current project, me and my very experienced team mostly focusses on supporting the development teams with architectural design challenges, long-running improvements, or helping them resolve technical debt that is impeding their user stories. However, during the last five months we picked up...
Ingredients for well-designed OWIN middleware components - Part 7
In the sixth post of this series I talked about how you can use Swagger to create real useful documentation for your API. In this seventh and probably last post, I'd like to present some spices to make that OWIN middleware component extra special. Spice 1: Automate your entire bu...
Ingredients for well-designed OWIN middleware components - Part 6
In the fifth post of this series I talked about some PowerShell tips to align the versions of all NuGet packages. In this sixth post, I'd like to show you how you can make your HTTP API much easier to use. Ingredient 7: Swagger-enabled documentation If your component exposes an HTTP API based o...