No estimates
I was at a meet-up from the Software Craftsmanship Zürich on the topic of “No estimates QA session” with Vasco Duarte. I read a few things about “No estimates” (aka “NE”) … Continue Reading No estimates
Polyfill, Vendors and App Bundle using Webpack 4
My goal was to have a polyfill.js bundle generated by Webpack 4 that gets inserted into the apps index.html file before any other Javascript as it must load and install … Continue Reading Polyfill, Vendors and App Bundle using Webpack 4
State-Handling in React apps
Intro We use React for most of our current web-frontends. For older React Apps we used the MobX (databinding-library for MVVM) and then moved over to Redux. But even with … Continue Reading State-Handling in React apps
Structuring a React/Redux/TypeScript app
I’m relatively new to the stack of React, Redux and TypeScript but I had to do a lot of coding in this area over the past months. To get started … Continue Reading Structuring a React/Redux/TypeScript app
Javascript async/await in React Components
Again some notes from my recent React and Javascript/TypeScript learnings. I knew already how to use Promises by building method chains with .then() or .catch() to chain the asynchronous actions … Continue Reading Javascript async/await in React Components
Compile-check LESS/CSS classnames using TypeScript and Webpack
As I am making myself familiar with modern frontend development based on React, TypeScript, Webpack and some more I learned something really cool. I like to write this down not … Continue Reading Compile-check LESS/CSS classnames using TypeScript and Webpack
Calculating MD5 Hash over multiple strings with C#
I just spent a fair amount of hours calculating one MD5 hash code over multiple strings so I thought I write this down. Please note that the same principle can … Continue Reading Calculating MD5 Hash over multiple strings with C#
Visual Studio for Mac with Ligatures font ‘Fira Code’
In a previous post I described how to set up the Ligatures font “Fira Code” in Visual Studio 2017. As I startet coding these days in Visual Studio for Mac … Continue Reading Visual Studio for Mac with Ligatures font ‘Fira Code’
How to build and publish Nuget packages with source-symbols to VSTS
We read about that Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) now not only support hosting your Nuget package feeds but also your source-symbols and source-symbol packages. This sounds very promissing in … Continue Reading How to build and publish Nuget packages with source-symbols to VSTS
How to run xUnit Tests in Visual Studio for Mac
In the current version of Visual Studio for Mac there is “Add file” template for xUnit Unit-Tests. Nice and easy. But how to run these tests? The problem is, that … Continue Reading How to run xUnit Tests in Visual Studio for Mac
Line-breaks in webpages
I just got a bug-report where a field label is too long and (with the use of Bootstrap 3) doesn’t wrap but get cut off. So I took this opportunity … Continue Reading Line-breaks in webpages
Visual Studio 2017 support for Ligatures fonts like ‘Fira Code’
Based on the post ‘Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures‘ from Scott Hanselman I tried if that works in for the classic Visual Studio too. Short answer: yes, the Ligatures support … Continue Reading Visual Studio 2017 support for Ligatures fonts like ‘Fira Code’
Estimations: Story-Points vs. Hours
Over the last months the topic of estimations for developing software with many people arise many times. The thing with the story-points for estimations often seems to be confusing so … Continue Reading Estimations: Story-Points vs. Hours
Trigger TFS and VSTS buildjobs using wildcards
In TFS and VSTS one can create a whole list of triggers that particular build-jobs. In the drop-down one can select an existing branch and all done. But if you … Continue Reading Trigger TFS and VSTS buildjobs using wildcards
Layer-Architecture: Separation of View, Business-Logic and physical data-access
This is a topic my colleague and I are discussing a lot the last few weeks because we started a little internal framework/library which should help us building small to … Continue Reading Layer-Architecture: Separation of View, Business-Logic and physical data-access
Microsoft BUILD 2017 – Day 3 (German)
Auch am letzten Tag der BUILD 2017 Konferenz gab es wieder eine menge interessanter und unterhaltsamer Sessions. Einige waren so unterhaltsam, dass man diese schon fast als Nerd-Comedy bezeichnen könnte. … Continue Reading Microsoft BUILD 2017 – Day 3 (German)
