Morten Nielsen

SCRUM

New sprint

We started a new sprint today. This sprint were doing some finishing touches to the hierarchies I posted about earlier, and were touching up on filters. Were introducing logs on some domain entities, allowing users to track changes to the entity and actions related to it. Hopefully its all wrapped

Software

Languages in software

This is getting out of hand. More and more companies are assuming, that just because I live in Sweden I want to have Swedish localization in my apps. Sure I do want the date format and the currency format. But I really do not want Swedish words in exceptions, menus

UI

Left aligning wpf grid headers

Applying this style to the gridviewcolumns they will left align their header content.

People

Knowing the problem domain of a project

When working with long running software projects. The initial stakeholders and developers often leaves before the project is complete, if it ever becomes completed. As a result, the inital decisions made when starting the project can be forgotten. The experiences that lead to the project being initiated in the first

Design

Working with a domain model

We just took a new turn on the work with our Domain Model in RemoteX Applications. In recent months, mostly due to the increased number of customers using the system. There had been some innovative ways in using the product. Some for which we hadnt intended the product to be

Updated wordpress

Nothing new realy, just upgrade wordpress.

Creating views of hierarchies in WPF

We are creating a view showing the a hierarchical view of certain objects in our domain model. Using WPF this is what our hierarchies look like. [https://www.morten.software/wp-content/hierarchy.jpg] The text in the upper right corner is a description and title of the hierarchy and a

Aggregation vs Accumulation

I’m starting to get more and more annoyed with this. Apparently most people have a hard time to see the difference. Accumulation means that at given points addition (or some other arithmetic function) is done to accumulate new values. Aggregation means Sum of all points in the current context.

Design

Every time you downcast a kitten breaks a rib

This is a snippet taken from our design guidelines document. > Most code doesn’t require casting. Avoid casting, especially if you cast to a more specialized class.

Design

Use extension methods with care

.Net 3.5 introduced the extension methods; they can be a nice way to extend classes we have no control over. They can wrap common usages of objects; even implement methods on interfaces to assist the common responsibility of the usage of that interface. However, extension methods are basically just

Team coding principles

I’m working on a new version of my teams coding principles. Our old one was just mentioning code standards, nothing about class design principles nor mentioning why certain choices are made. I’ll be posting some minor posts with drafts for the document in the coming days.

CompactFramework

Compact Framework checks InvokeRequired for get visible

Im writing a piece of code in compact framework that is supposed to tear down memory intese controls when they arent visible and then reactivate them when they are visible. [https://www.morten.software/wp-content/deactivatecode1.png] Now I agree that checking visiblity in a worker thread isn’t pretty.

SCRUM

A positive aspekt of RUP

Ive been working on a business plan for a business plan contest recently. It’s the first time that I write a business plan and to be honest, its opened my eyes on many different levels. Here is a conclusion I came to after mentally going over the RUP project

People

Anecdote: People and Projects

For som reason I had a flashback last night to when I was studying for my Masters. We had a course in project management based on RUP where the lecturer were hierd in from a consultant company specialising in RUP. During one of the exercises I had a chance to

SCRUM

Technical team-building

I firmly believe that; if a team has a common view of how software is to be developed. The team can produce software a lot faster. If not only for the fact that if the team shares a common view of how code is structured, in an object-oriented sense, then

Design

Design consideration when using Extention methods

Extension methods are a nice way to warp up code that you often execute on different classes. However do not forget to consider the test implications of the Extension methods you are creating. A simple mutating extension method is easy enough. But if you have an extension method that does

SCRUM

How to communicate Hot-fix cost

Ever had problems with the communication between the customer and the development team, due to hot-fixes? Hot-fixes, deliveries that are not part of the planned release cycles are a burden to the entire release process. I personally believe that the cost of the hot-fix isn’t worth it, instead focusing

Design

The cost of an conditional flow in a user story

During this sprint in at my work, some minor touch up stories were added to the sprint. These stories however we’re thought out, at least not to the level that they were ready to be implemented. Ill try to describe a particular problem of one of them. The problem

TechEd2008

The future of unit testing

This session was supposed to be another session, but I’m quite happy that they changed it. I didn’t notice since I thought this seemed like a session I would go to. The session was held by Roy Osherove who works at Typemock. His talk was not a Typemock

TechEd2008

Building on Quicksand

This is the first session that realy hit the roof when it comes to the level of the session. I arrived late to the session (sorry). The session is about reliability on large system. The session was held by Pat Helland. Basiclly Pat presented the idea of ACID 2.0,

CompactFramework

Mobilize your Enterprise and Achieve Global Scalability with Windows Mobile and SQL Server Compact

This Session at tech-ed was held by Rob Tiffany, about how to utilize SQLCe with merge replication to achieve a scalable solution with SQL Merge replication to and from devices. This is the typical session that I wish I’ve been to 3 years ago. We’re using merge replication

Tools

Saving space for test results in Visual Studio 2008

I keep forgetting to make this setting when I configure a new development environment. [](http://www.morkeleb.com/wp-content/testresults.png)Visual studio Test results settingThe default setting for this is 25, meaning

Changed to Wordpress

I just abandoned Blogger for a private WordPress installation. The reasons for this are many, but mainly I noticed that the blogger template I was using was broken when using certain links on the template. This along with the fact that blogger’s spelling-assistance hasn’t worked for months. It

Blog template updated

I noticed that my template didnt have links to my rss or atom feeds. I made a minor update where I fixed that and Added the new lables to the righthand menu. Also noticed that the labels wernt updated for when I moved the blog between my subdomains. The labels

CompactFramework

Mobile Smackdown

Interesting session indeed. This was the first time that I felt a culture difference between he session hosters and the people listening to the session. The crowd was somewhat hard to active, and I believe that most of the people whom went to the session didnt realy know what to