I was involved in a project that was given 10 days to finish, the tight schedule was due to budget reasons. The client explained to me his requirements and then asked for an estimate for details. We stood in front of the whiteboard, broke down the features and then started estimating the time for these… Read More »
It’s a crazy era for IT! everyday new concepts, libraries, products, and even languages are introduced; so many solutions for so many problems. It is indeed the era of specialization. There is absolutely no way to grasp all this knowledge, specialization and concentration of knowledge has to occur, and we must choose a technology to… Read More »
The 2nd main cause of buggy software (time pressure is #1), is laziness and boredom. Every job in this life consists of a “core”, which is the most challenging and most exciting part of the job, and a “chore”, which is the boring and tedious part. Let’s take a chef as an example; he is… Read More »
Update: @DavidEbbo checked the post and thankfully he notified me that we don’t need to use the RESTapi to add an environment variable to Kudu on Azure; we can use the AppSettings in the portal. ——- Kudu is a deployment engine that enables websites to deploy directly from git repository, it is the one behind… Read More »
As software developers, we happen to come across many business problems with various complexity levels. Although this complexity depends on the nature of the domain sometimes, what I have noticed that product owners add a lot to this complexity themselves without a need! For once, software developers are innocent here; the product owner, the… Read More »
Last week I got the chance to speak on the Victoria .net user group, presenting OAuth authentication (and authentication in general) in the new .net web world of OWIN. You can find below the link to the source code, the presentation slides, and the video on Youtube. Source code on GitHub For some reason the… Read More »
You have to listen to two words only before Cristian Prieto grasp your attention till the very end of his talk, even if it was about cats! everybody just goes silent, listening carefully, staring and waiting for more!…and the secret behind it, as I see it, is HE IS A PERFECT STORY-TELLER! Let’s face it,… Read More »
Last week I delivered my first talk in Melbourne: “ASP.NET Routing & MVC” with the .net user group VIC.NET. Even though there was a problem with time control due to reasons out of hand, the audience stayed till the very end of the presentation; good to know that the presentation didn’t suck that much :D.… Read More »
There are couple of posts talking about this subject: when you have multiple process’s with the same name, it’s not straightforward to figure out which performance counter instance represents which process. The suggestion would be to use the process ID and the “ID Process” performance counter (This is not the essence of this post, if… Read More »
Update: In addition to this post, you can check as well the valuable post of Stuart Cullinans’s. One of the recent projects I worked on involved managing IIS programmatically, and I found the proper tool for it, meet “Microsoft.Web.Administration”. You can read about this library’s purpose in its own page above; what I will list… Read More »