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Remember your first time wrestling with Dependency Injection (DI) or Inversion Of Control (IoC)? I do. And it was like trying to decode a foreign language. When Castle Windsor and other similar...
HTMX proves you don't need the complexity of React, Angular or Vue. The stack and build steps are getting insane with all these JavaScript frameworks. HTMX reduces the complexity of the stack, by...
What makes SPAs feel modern? Because Single-Page Applications feel fast. This is largely due to targeted partial page rendering: the strength of SPAs. HTMX allows you to build the same...
I almost never Debug my code. Somehow this is strange in the eyes of fellow developers. They can't image coding without a debugger. For example, I have never felt the need to attach a debugger to a...
Wild take about AOT: .NET Native AOT is not for making your containers smaller. It's to get Wasm assembly's smaller, so MS is in a good position for the next fase in web.
🌞 Fun fact: Scrum was created in the time of ICQ, AOL Instant messenger and Skype. Is Scrum just really a reaction to the fact that developers don't know how to talk to other people? Developers...
Standup meetings Why have a Teams channel where everyone can post what they are struggling with, so anyone can respond to help and start a 1-on-1 call. If we can have 15-min meetings informing...
Complexity <> Sophisticated It can be just overly complex, because the person who created it didn't understand it well enough. Teachers face the challenge of breaking down complex subjects for...
I can't read it anymore! You know those old guys with MASSIVE text on their phone or laptop. I have joined the club. I am 47 now and I started to pinch my eyes more and more. Today I increased my...
The Scrum ticket system You're churning out tickets, classified as 'features', that strongly resemble clean-up tasks. Are all team members solely focused on their own individual ticket? This surely...
5 reasons NOT to automate. This might sound odd coming from me, a staunch advocate of automation. However, beware! If you're handling a process for the first, second or third time, don't rush to...
Justifying marketing is hard. Generating awareness and traffic is hard to quantify. What is the ROI for marketing? The reason is the distance to the sale transaction. How further away how harder it...
Power Platform Architect
I help Dynamics 365 teams remove friction. Architecture, automation, and integrations that hold up.