UML, and why you still need it 🤩🤷♀️
posted on Monday February 8th 2021in DesignDev ToolsPermalink
UML might be old school – but it is still school!!
posted on Monday February 8th 2021in DesignDev ToolsPermalink
UML might be old school – but it is still school!!
posted on Sunday February 7th 2021in BackendDev ToolsLanguagesPermalink
This article sums up the benefits of doing backends in Node.js 🤓
posted on Saturday January 2nd 2021in Dev ToolsPermalink
Markdown might be the most underrated tool you’ll use every day.
This article really kicks you off in the right direction 🚀
posted on Wednesday December 2nd 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Visualizing your code and the flow of logic is extremely useful!
posted on Tuesday December 1st 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsPermalink
There is truly power in that shell!
posted on Monday November 30th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
This article describes how to identify (on Linux) where in your system the bottleneck is.
posted on Saturday November 28th 2020in Dev ToolsLanguagesPermalink
This article gives the details along with pros and cons of becoming a fullstack .NET developer.
posted on Saturday November 28th 2020in Dev ToolsFrontendLanguagesPermalink
Good guide on how to get started building responsive desktop apps with Electron.
posted on Thursday November 26th 2020in Dev ToolsLanguagesPermalink
Short and easy guide on how to compile even a Dotnet WinForms project to a single .EXE file you can distribute.
posted on Saturday November 21st 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
This is interresting.
Hugo is crazy fast!
posted on Wednesday November 18th 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsPermalink
GitHub Actions is really taking off ?
posted on Tuesday November 17th 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsPermalink
It really is. Here is a short guide how to mount disk images in it.
posted on Tuesday November 17th 2020in Dev ToolsInfrastructurePermalink
3… 2… 1… FIGHT!
Or don’t! There should be plenty of room for both!
posted on Tuesday November 17th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Scott Hanselman – once again – to the rescue with a nice short guide that has incredible relevance!
posted on Sunday November 15th 2020in Dev ToolsLanguagesPermalink
Spoiler: Just use it already!
posted on Sunday November 15th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Debugging software require you to be an investigator ??♀️
posted on Thursday November 12th 2020in Dev ToolsLanguagesWeb DevelopmentPermalink
Make sure you don’t make ’em…
posted on Tuesday November 10th 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsPermalink
This is a very comprehensive article.
posted on Thursday October 29th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Once again Scott Hanselman with a small and to-the-point tutorial!
posted on Thursday October 29th 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsPermalink
A small guide to get you started and get you secure.
posted on Thursday October 29th 2020in Dev ToolsFrontendPermalink
Big ships like Windows doesn’t make sharp turns very well. The amount of users alone is enough to make most development teams be resistant to changing the UI – remember everyone uses Windows and many of them doesn’t know, like or care about technology.
posted on Tuesday October 27th 2020in BackendDev ToolsDevOpsWeb DevelopmentPermalink
The dynamic duo! Read about why it is so awesome!
posted on Sunday October 25th 2020in Dev ToolsProjectPermalink
This is indeed a very cool app – I can see many types of development being supported by this.
I like the option that you can buy it from the App Store – or just build it yourself for free. Convenience will cost you. That seems fair.
posted on Sunday October 25th 2020in Dev ToolsFrontendPermalink
This will make the use of graphical apps on WSL a joy – imagine running your browser from a container ?
Imagine running your browser from a new container every time you start it!! ?????
posted on Sunday October 25th 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsPermalink
I like the built in ability to monitor in K8s environments.
posted on Sunday October 25th 2020in Dev ToolsSecurityPermalink
GitHub is really ramping up the offering and showing what can be done automatically.
posted on Thursday October 15th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
And it is even cross platform!
posted on Thursday October 15th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Cool tool.
Command line is awesome!
posted on Thursday October 15th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Looking at a future where development machines doesn’t have to be beefy and expensive feels great!
posted on Wednesday October 14th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
It is 2020 and the best Terminal is on…. Windows? Wait what?!
posted on Wednesday October 14th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
RaspberryPi and Chromebook native VS Code? What’s not to like!?
posted on Wednesday October 14th 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsInfrastructurePermalink
Even though it sound a bit generic it is awesome and deservces the second mention.
posted on Tuesday October 13th 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsPermalink
Automatical!
Fantastical!
posted on Tuesday October 13th 2020in Dev ToolsWeb DevelopmentPermalink
Are WebComponents a failed solution to the wrong problem?
posted on Monday October 12th 2020in Dev ToolsWeb DevelopmentPermalink
My websites was made with Hugo before switching to Gatsby.
Hugo has the advantage that it produce clean HTML with no fancy stuff.
posted on Monday October 12th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Short and to.the-point guide to rebasing!
posted on Monday October 12th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Nice short guide on compression on Linux.
posted on Monday October 12th 2020in Dev ToolsFrontendProjectWeb DevelopmentPermalink
React. GraphQL.
Buzzwords, gotta catch ’em all!
posted on Saturday October 10th 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsSecurityPermalink
Just don’t keep your secrets in your repository. Period.
posted on Saturday October 10th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Microsoft is for work. It works for private stuff too though.
posted on Friday October 9th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
GitHub Actions are awesome.
Automatic deployment is absolutely a thing you need.
posted on Friday October 9th 2020in Dev ToolsLanguagesPermalink
It’s true – this is not easy to get right at all.
posted on Thursday October 8th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Slack is getting better. Voice channel is the number one thing I am currently missing (compared to Discord eg.).
posted on Thursday October 8th 2020in Dev ToolsHardwarePermalink
It is always fun to experiment with other distributions and ways to set up the Raspberry Pi – it is truly capable of being a real computer for most of your work.
posted on Wednesday October 7th 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsInfrastructurePermalink
DO has a new App platform – looks very much like Heroku eg. – it is nice!
posted on Wednesday October 7th 2020in Dev ToolsLanguagesPermalink
I love this analysis.
This is the natural progression – Apple also needs to adopt their own tools.
posted on Wednesday October 7th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
NPM 7 is getting more features focused around project management. Great.
posted on Tuesday October 6th 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsInfrastructurePermalink
Once again Scott Hanselman absolutely nails the 101!
posted on Sunday October 4th 2020in Dev ToolsTestingWeb DevelopmentPermalink
Test often!
You can’t be clicking all the time.
posted on Sunday October 4th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Well…. Packaging software for multiple operating system seems easy enough…
posted on Saturday October 3rd 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsInfrastructurePermalink
I needed this!
posted on Saturday October 3rd 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsPermalink
We should get to know our new friends.
posted on Saturday October 3rd 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsPermalink
Neat trick.
posted on Saturday October 3rd 2020in Dev ToolsManagementPermalink
Seems simple enough.
posted on Thursday October 1st 2020in Dev ToolsHistoryPermalink
Last week year we where all making desktop applications and applets in Java ?♀️
posted on Thursday October 1st 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsFrontendWeb DevelopmentPermalink
Cool. Cool cool cool.
posted on Sunday September 27th 2020in Dev ToolsLanguagesPermalink
I was raised with old school PHP development. Back then everything was pretty straight forward – you called functions and got values in return. PDO is really not that different – but it is the future.
posted on Sunday September 27th 2020in Dev ToolsGamesPermalink
Very cool to see technology drip back up stream into Windows from Xbox!
posted on Thursday September 24th 2020in Dev ToolsUncategorizedPermalink
This article describes why!
posted on Wednesday September 9th 2020in DesignDev ToolsFrontendWeb DevelopmentPermalink
These are some neat tools to check rendering in different screen sizes.
posted on Monday September 7th 2020in DesignDev ToolsManagementPermalink
It is not trivial to make great user stories that serve their purpose throughout a diverse team.
Changing team composition furthermore leaves the user stories with a set of changing requirements.
posted on Thursday September 3rd 2020in Dev ToolsManagementSecurityPermalink
This is a very good guide by Microsoft!
posted on Friday August 28th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
This is an awesome guide!
posted on Sunday August 23rd 2020in Dev ToolsLanguagesWeb DevelopmentPermalink
This article is a very comprehensive real-life guide to setting up your real-world application with Redux as data store.
posted on Friday August 14th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
VIM is, and has always been, a very important skill to learn.
posted on Wednesday August 12th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
This is nice and short but shows you how to put color on everything ?
posted on Monday August 3rd 2020in Dev ToolsFrontendInfrastructureWeb DevelopmentPermalink
Seriously – WebRTC is some cool technology – I can’t even begin to imagine how many awesome things can be made with this!
And this Javascript library makes it very easy! ☕️
posted on Thursday July 30th 2020in Dev ToolsFrontendWeb DevelopmentPermalink
Is this a Bootstrap killer?
It’s not as extensise as Bootstrap – but that might actually be a good thing!
I like this library!
posted on Wednesday July 29th 2020in DesignDev ToolsFrontendTestingPermalink
This research is good and the Material Design has been improved – overall this is a good tale on how to iterate the small things.
posted on Tuesday July 28th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
GitHub is awesome.
Now it let’s you make a README in markdown for you profile page!
posted on Sunday July 19th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Comparing Linux distros for development purpose.
There is no doubt in my mind that Linux is the best development environment.
Both macOS and Windows are getting there though – the Unix background of macOS and WSL on Windows really moves them forward.
posted on Saturday July 18th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
My best advice is to have a project – with no purpose it will be very difficult to learn anything…
posted on Sunday July 12th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Available through GitHub actions – this is very powerful!
posted on Thursday July 9th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
A comprehensive and practical guide to testing your React apps!
posted on Wednesday July 8th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
A small article that gives you a glimpse of the overhead of running your development setup through Docker on macOS.
posted on Friday June 26th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
I’m afraid to say this: Python like this looks a bit like Nodejs ?♀️
posted on Friday June 26th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
We could all learn from this and write better commit messages.
Fixed something isn’t good enough??
posted on Thursday June 25th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
The Raspberry Pi is a great development platform – and these are the tools you want in that toolbox.
posted on Sunday June 14th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Delve is smart and good.
Debugging is awesome – no print statements needed.
posted on Sunday June 14th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
These are some good rules for your git branches.
posted on Saturday June 13th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
This article has a nice list of stuff to do when configuring VS Code.
Use the bits you like.
posted on Thursday May 21st 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
This is some good news.
A modern OS should have an official package manager.
Windows has several package managers – I tend to use HomeBrew through WSL. This might be better though.
posted on Tuesday May 19th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
I have seen some demos in UR5 and they look absolutely amazing!
posted on Monday May 18th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Notifications on GitHub has been given a big brush up! I like it! And I like the inbox-like approuch to my GitHub-work.
posted on Monday May 18th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
This article is a great insight into how Firefox is built and developed.
Building a browser is no small project – especially when you want to be in the front line of performance and standard compliance.
posted on Sunday May 10th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
This case has been going on for long enough already – can we all just move along and try to make relevant products for users??
Please….
posted on Sunday May 10th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
I am really a sucker for articles/lists as this one.
I can’t seem to remember back when development was done either in a large expensive IDE that couldn’t be changed OR in a simple text editor that couldn’t be changed OR on Unix/Linux where you could just go RTFM!
posted on Sunday May 3rd 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Output of go test -v
is now streamed real time – this is really a huge step up for Go developers.
posted on Wednesday April 22nd 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
The new Notepad app for Windows 10 is here!
Word wrapping and search/replace is supported!!! This is exciting times indeed!
All jokes aside – Microsoft seems to be moving many of these core apps into the store which might serve a dual purpose: Move them to alternate update cycles and have them deliver their own promises to users AND making everyone aware that Windows 10 actually have an app store ?♀️
posted on Wednesday April 22nd 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
I agree that Markdowns 1-to-1 relationship with HTML is problematic at best.
Markdown is really good at what it does – it is somewhat easy to learn and it is widespread already.
Introducing new alternatives at this point – even though they might be better – might prove a pointless effort.
posted on Sunday April 19th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Microservices are talked about as it’s the best thing to happen in computing ever.
Most time I can’t stop thinking that my stack leaves me with a problem but if I split it into n microservices I’ll have n! problems… And my core product ain’t one…
posted on Sunday April 19th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
LiveShare is one of the most undervalued features of VS Code!
posted on Sunday April 19th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Windows update 2004 can’t come fast enough!
WSL2 is looking to be on point for developers and enthusiasts alike!
posted on Sunday April 19th 2020in Dev ToolsPermalink
Diago is a nifty little tool for analyzing CPU and/or memory performance/usage in programs written in Go.
It is written in Go itself – which is also very impressive (UI binding to a library written mostly in C++ though).
posted on Monday April 13th 2020in Dev ToolsDevOpsPermalink
It is a good move – access tokes are clearly the way forward!
posted on Wednesday March 18th 2020in Dev ToolsManagementPermalink
The official GitHub app was just released!
I have only given the app a small test run ? around the block and merged a few pull requests ?♀️ It is really good! ?
The mobile version of the GitHub web interface is generally good. This is even better!