Articles by nathans.dropbox@googlemail.com (Technical Blogs: 18)

How to solve this issue.

My thoughts on my new Windows Phone 7.

Whilst Microsoft wants a unified platform, and I as I said I understand why, would it not be better to wait and be happy that Win 8 and WinRT is successful with bugs ironed out before rolling it out across all form factors?

Back in February I learned that Nokia & Microsoft had teamed up to provide free phones to developers that could show that they were developing applications for Windows Phone 7 (WP7), so I decided that this was too good an opportunity to miss and set about creating my first application. I already ha

Refactor code using S.O.L.I.D principles to make the code easier to understand, test, maintain and extend.

My own generic repository.

Wrapping up this series summarising the information and adding some of my own thoughts.

In my last post I discussed installing NDepend and getting your first report out, this post is about that report. I’m not intending to go into every single aspect of the report as it contains a huge amount of information and the report itself provides help and assistance on nearly everything that i

If you’re one of those devs that slaps a ConfigurationManager.AppSettings in the middle of a class, then stop, please just stop.

A discussion about how Kanban can be used for support

A while ago now there was a discussion about “definition of done” (DoD) with critics and supporters alike commenting on how they saw DoD and need or lack of. The critics seemed to fall into 2 categories: those that believe work isn’t done until its actually deployed to production and those that did

You need to back it up with something that actually exercises the entire system the code belongs in, including the data it will work with.

The book is not about general agile development but it is in fact all about Extreme Programming (XP) and its aim is to provide the reader with information based on the authors experience not only about what XP is, its practices and principles but some real world advice about agile projects.

For a newcomer to CI in the .NET world I would recommend you read this book as it will provide you with information and guidance to help you get your CI process in place.

Over the last few of years we’ve seen the terms katas, dōjō’s and koans enter the vocabulary of software developers, if you spend some time looking into these terms and how they are used in relation to software you’ll find people drawing comparisons between software development and martial arts and

An introduction to NDepend

Install process and first steps with NDepend

Visual NDepend, the stand alone program and the functionality it supports