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These days, .net developers are certainly spoilt for choice. There are so many useful frameworks out there, that it has become difficult to decide which one to use. Also, getting to grips with each one requires concerted effort and time to fully understand the pros and cons. Just take for example ORM frameworks, aside from the many Open Source implementations there are a plethora of commercial ones too. In my quest to evaluate as many open source frameworks, I found the How-To-Select website, which...
I can't help thinking that "Convention by Observation & Intuition" is a key skill that every developer should have. After several years working in various different development teams, mostly highly-focused small teams, it seems that an important factor to the success of the team is each members ability to intuit the convention of things based on observation of what the other team members have done. This applies to simple things such as project layouts, file naming conventions, directory...
I've been wanting to post something of this nature, but I guess my literary skills aren't quite as well honed as the author of the Ride Out the .NET Programming Revolution article on FTPOnline. It sums up some of what I'd been thinking about .net and programming in general. In addition to the enhancements and paradigm shifts found in WPF, WCF and LINQ, I can't help wondering whether the simpler more mundane tasks programmers face everyday will ever be "attended to". Examples...
According to the Doolwind's Game Coding Site my programmer personality type is: DHSC You're a D oer. You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money. You like coding at a H igh level. The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same way. You work best in a S olo situation. The best way to program is by yourself. There's...
After some 10 years of developing, I guess it's time that I started blogging. I'd like to start sharing my experiences and hopefully something good will come of it. I live in Cape Town and currently work for an international software company. We develop best of breed financial software for asset managers and multi-managers. At the moment I am the project creator/owner of our investment compliance system. I believe that software in the financial services domain faces challenges which other...