A nice to have feature when working with databases is the different ways to create functions and procedures to create reusable queries. I don’t say queries used with applications, because you in the database layer for applications you should avoid putting too much logic and filtering in the database and instead add it to the… Read More »
Index fragmentation is bad and makes you queries runs slower than expected, and requires additional space on you hard drive. SQL Server stores data in 8KB pages. These 8KB pages are stored sequentially in heap tables, that is tables without any clustered index. In tables with clustered indexes (or non-clustered covered indexes) data is stored… Read More »
We finally decided to move from estimating in hours to estimating in Story Points, and we are quite happy about it. It did take a while though, but in a meeting regarding if we should update our stories with time remaining and how to become better at it we started to realize that we shouldn’t.… Read More »
Sometimes I just read things that makes so much sense and just explains what is what. One of these things I read in Peter Senge’s book The 5th Discipline, and it is about personal visions why some visions are just abandoned. Visions, we all have them in some way, a dream something that drives us… Read More »
During my teams transition to become an agile team we have reached a point where we actually have to talk about self-organization. We have been talking about it before but maybe in vague terms. My vision have been to try to sneak it in, but it doesn’t seem to work. People tends to break my… Read More »
Disclaimer, this not my area of expertise, just want to start with saying that. I skipped the complexity theory entirely during my University studies. I ended up with a Master of Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence because I found it interesting and fun. Which it was. Did I work as a AI specialist.… Read More »
Well, maybe the title should be: Things I hope you do while developing 🙂 Update code to current standards and tools Limit scope and clean code Write unit tests Maybe the third one should be at the top, because it is required for the first two. Never mind, I won’t change it. First Update code… Read More »
Ever been in this situation? You have been writing some code and then in the end cleaning up, realizing that you have a couple of methods that are similar in behavior but should be split up in different classes? Well, lets give you an example. So basically in this weird example, you have similar behavior… Read More »
I always try to inspire my team to come up with new ideas, and communicate them to the rest of the team. When working in pairs it is pretty easy to just talk to your team member and tell them about your idea and whether it sounds good or not. But either way, don’t lose… Read More »
Family Spend more time alone with each one of my kids… and my wife of course Cook more – my wife likes to cook so she spends more time in the kitchen than me – have not always been like that so I will join her more often. Not that easy though with 3 kids… Read More »