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Many things in programming become easier as your level of experience increases. However, some things remain stubbornly difficult. This document tries to characterize five of these difficult things; optimization, networking, security, reliability and scalability, what makes them hard and what you can do about it.

NuGet is a package management system for .NET. The goal of NuGet is to make the process of incorporating third party libraries into your solutions as simple as possible.

One of the mistakes I see people make (and have made myself) is assuming that you must choose exactly one ORM strategy for an entire database/application/system. It's simply not the case.

Really, a few time management principles can do our life successful and improve software and web development to profitable and fascinating levels.

...we think of requirements of coming in the form of user stories. [...] But what are characteristics of a good story? The acronym "INVEST" can remind you that good stories are...

gidsen | 19 jul 2012 | Anja de Crom | De beste ict-bestuurders van 2012 reageren op 7 stellingen. Vandaag: maatwerksoftware is onnodig duur. Ron Augustus, service director Microsoft : "Dat hoeft niet zo te zijn. Hoewel maatwerk zoveel mogelijk voorkomen moet worden, is het soms noodzakelijk om aan bedrijfsspecifieke eisen te voldoen.

Using peer code review best practices  optimizes your code reviews, improves your  code and makes the most of your  developers' time. The recommended best  practices contained within for efficient,  lightweight peer code review have been  proven to be effective via extensive field  experience.

I recently discovered a very cool project on NuGet - FluentAssertions. This is a really funky little library that vastly improves assertions in your unit tests, whether you are using NUnit or MsTest.

So I tried to give some examples of when NUnit (what I use) is much nicer and more readable then this project. However Diigo comments deletes some special symbols like [ for some reason. But the point was that this article only compares to MsTest, not NUnit which can be quite readable.

Making Wrong Code Look Wrong