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User story is worthless, Behavior is ...
User Story is suitable for describing what user needs but not what user does and how system reacts to user actions within different contexts. It basically gives product team a way to quantify their output and let their boss know that they are doing their job. As a developer, you can’t write code from user stories because you have no clue on w [...]
C# with keyword equivalent
There’s no with keyword in C#, like Visual Basic.
So you end up writing code like this:
this.StatusProgressBar.IsIndeterminate = false;
this.StatusProgressBar.Visibility = Visibility.Visible;
this.StatusProgressBar.Minimum = 0;
this.StatusProgressBar.Maximum = 100;
this.StatusProgressBar.Value = percentage;
Here’s a work around [...]
How to convince developers and manage...
Everyone agrees that unit testing is a good thing, we should all
write unit tests. We read articles and blogs to keep us up-to-date
on what’s going on in the unit test world so that we can
sound cool talking to peers at lunch. But when we really sit down
and try to write unit tests ourselves – “Naaah, this is
waste of time, [...]
Tips and tricks to rescue overdue pro...
One of my friends, who runs his own offshore development shop,
was having nightmare situation with one of his customers. He’s way
overdue on a release, the customer is screaming everyday, he’s
paying his team from his own pocket, customer is sending an ever
increasing list of changes and so on. Here’s how we discussed some
i [...]
An Agile Developer’s workflow w...
If you are planning to start SCRUM at your company, you might
need to train developers and QA to get into the mindset of an Agile
developer. SCRUM is only successful when the developers and QA get
into the habit of following the principles of SCRUM by heart. So,
sometimes you need to offer training or do trial sprints to give
some room to you [...]
Using multiple broadband connections ...
I have two broadband connections. One cheap connection, which I
mostly use for browsing and downloading. Another very expensive
connection that I use for voice chat, remote desktop connection
etc. Now, using these two connections at the same time required two
computers before. But I figured out a way to use both connections
at the same time u [...]
