"Asynchrony is essential  for scalability and performance on the server side. Although it has always been possible to write asynchronous code, there has, up to now, been a downside: it is difficult to understand and maintain. Now, with the async/await. keywords, the whole approach is radically simplified for the programmer."

"Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places: their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps, speed limits and traffic conditions."

"[..] the reason I have done all this work is my very strong belief that TDD as a practice has a large amount of value well beyond what most people understand. In fact, I believe that of all the practices made popular by the agile movement, TDD is the most beneficial practice overall. Here are eight reasons why I believe that TDD should be beyond debate."

"When Eric Schmidt makes grand pronouncements about the industry, he's probably not just blowing smoke. You should listen to him. And when he repeated his claim, during an interview this week with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, that the tech world is ruled by just four giants-Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook-Schmidt was right on."

"Even with the rise of cloud computing, the world still revolves around servers. That won't last, though. Cloud apps are moving into a serverless world, and that will big implications for the creation and distribution of software and applications."

"One of the biggest struggles that developers have with adopting Unit Testing, whether it's Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) or even just Test Eventual Development (TED), is the difficulty some code is to test.  This is typically when code doesn't follow the SOLID design principals."

"Dependencies are nearly unavoidable for non-trivial software projects. These can be large dependencies, such as web frameworks and databases, or smaller decisions, such as pagination helpers or simple math libraries. The inevitable inclusion of these dependencies, however, is not an excuse to shape the solutions of your system around what you do not own. Instead, there ought to be an emphasis on finding the right fit and then owning the way dependencies interface with your system."

"Microsoft has always been at the forefront of creating great programming languages - Visual Basic, C#, and F# being the most recent examples. [..] Today, we're introducing a new programming language that solves a very specific problem - getting JavaScript development to scale. That language is TypeScript."

"Have you ever seen code that looked like the snippet here? [..] You probably have seen code like this, and I hope that it makes you sad. I know it makes me sad. It makes me sad because it's clearly the result of a fundamental failure to understand (or at least implement) polymorphism."

"But even in today's SW industry, there does not seem to be much of an expectation from SW professionals that we should have the 'capability/tools to build our own tools' that do much of the project work for us. I am not talking about the simple automation, things like rename/refactor or autocorrect, or intellisense and all that, I am talking about the kind of automation and tooling that writes or deploys software for us and saves hours, days and weeks of our time from handcrafting software solutions from scratch again."

"[..] we're surprised that people don't generally feel motivated to improve quality because we vastly underrate the value of the familiar."

"In my post on Why SOLID Matters, we refactored a small piece of code to be more SOLID.  Granted, it was a simplistic example, but good for illustrating several key points on SOLID.  We will continue using the same code to discuss the benefits of Mocking."

"Some of my favorite blog posts that I've read in the last several years focus on the subject of developer turnover, and I think that these provide an excellent backdrop for this subject. The oldest one that I'll list, by Bruce Webster, is called "The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea Effect," and it coins an excellent term for a phenomenon with which we're all probably vaguely aware on either a conscious or subconscious level. The "Dead Sea Effect" is a description of some organizations' tendency to be so focused on retention that they inadvertently retain mediocre talent while driving better talent away"

"It is common for a single parent entity to be related to many child entities. This relationship may be required or optional. A  required relationship means that the child cannot exist without a parent, and if the parent is deleted or the relationship between the child and the parent is severed, then the child becomes orphaned. In such situations it is often useful to have the orphaned child automatically deleted."

"When a new IT solution is needed in an enterprise, maybe because the business is changing or maybe because an existing manual process should be automated, the people who are in charge of implementing the solution usually quickly get to the question: should we build the solution or should we buy a package?"

"When you really boil it down to its implementation, FizzBuzz is something of an irritating program. I'm not sure how much the author of the problem really thought about FizzBuzz, but it turns out it's difficult to express well with the tools available to most imperative programming languages and easy to express using functional patterns available in Haskell and ML."

"Windows Presentation Foundation has a completely redesigned system for binding data to the UI, and can use a variety of binding sources including CLI objects and XML. WPF DataBinding is one of the most important aspects to WPF, so below is a collection of resources"

Geweldig verhaal over innovatie en verandering binnen een organisatie, verteld door Magnus Lindkvist.

Presentatie van Johan Krebbers, Chief Architect van Shell, over het Enterprise Data Model wat in ontwikkeling is bij Shell (SmartSolutions/SmartApps), en wat een trend is binnen vele grote multinationals in het kader van Big Data & Data Analysis.

"When an application is loading, users will typically see a progress bar on their screen that gives them a visual indication of when the application will finish loading. The way your progress bar moves and animates affects how users perceive the load time of your application"