OCG developers

"The greatest advantage that JetBrains ReSharper provides is that it makes the improving process much cheaper. How it is done? By simplifying both of the improvement steps: Understanding the code - ReSharper provides very quick and simple navigation along with immediate usage information. Changing the code - ReSharper provides extensive refactoring options. Most of the known refactoring techniques are built-in."

"I've been using Resharper since I started coding in .NET/C#. It's a tool with a lot of features which aids you in the average day development. In this blog post I'm going to show you the features that I use the most."

"The good news is there are many entrepreneurs and inventors that agree with me and they are currently building new and better ways for us to interact with computers."

"Overcoming the Estimation Obsession"

A great TED talk about applying Agile principle outside the workplace.

"Today, JavaScript is no longer a startup, and it's no longer just startups that are using it. Companies of all sizes and levels of maturity build applications for the browser, and JavaScript is the language they use to build them. The demands that were once placed on languages like C/C++ and Java are now shifting to JavaScript, and that shift is exposing the language's limitations: performance and maintainability."

A nice blog article illustrating some basic point on exception handling.

In this article, you will see creating a plugin is almost exactly same as create a regular ASP.NET MVC web application, it only need to create a plugin manifest file for each plugin.

"How to create great PowerPoint slides. Top tips and tools to use to create slides using PowerPoint, including fonts, colours and themes."

"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."

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"

"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."

"[..] 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."

"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."

"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."

"the most important guideline is to watch for warning signs in your own code-- so called "code smells". Developing your "code nose" is something that happens early in your programming career, if it's going to happen at all. I combined all the documented code smells I could find into this reference; most of these smells should be familiar to you."

"I've done a number of talks on Productivity in the past. Lots of folks ask me what my tips are for being productive. I've taken all those tips as well as tips from Kathy Sierra, Stephen Covey, David Allen, The Pomodoro Technique and many more and aggregated them into a system that works well for me. I talk about how to effectively handle large amounts email, sorting your personal data stream, how to conserve your keystrokes, the "one email rule" that you need to be effective"

"I want to look at some of the costs of unit testing and ask the question "why is unit testing hard?" After all, if unit testing weren't hard, we wouldn't have to question whether or not it was worth it.  It makes sense then to look at first why it is hard and what makes it hard."