July 2016 – codingsoul : Intuition and discipline, coding for my soul.

Which soft skills do a software developer need today? Which make him a good one, which make him an IT professional that can take the next steps? The last twenty years of professional software development I did always raised the same skills. Let’s

Quite a while ago I had a good talk with an colleague about “to log or not to log – that is the question”. 😉 That was a longer discussion, and a lot of questions had been raised: Shall we do

In last post about Are Extensions the beauty or the beast? I added a screenshot that showed a class implementing the repository pattern. This actually also showed the implementation of our log strategy. I did get some questions why we do it

The other day a collegue of mine came to me, being pretty enthusiastic. He was amazed about his latest changes to the code. As I am the responsible architect, it is my turn to have a look onto the changes. So

We need to move people from time to time between products. It can be tough when you move from SSIS/ Sql/ SAP stuff to job-based Excel automation. How can we make a hard task easy? The very first things that developer see

I put together a list of strategies, rules and best practices for our team. This is not any unusual stuff, but (IMHO) a sensible and smart set of rules to follow to be able to write extensible, maintainable, understandable, testable,

Did you hear about Waterfall? No, I don’t mean the oldschool development practice of the NASA to ensure that a rocket-powered aircraft will fly in space forever. I mean Waterfall charts: These charts do add some value for business users