The most important skills of senior developers, working in teams, is to be able to teach and pass down skills to junior developers. There are many adversities to passing skills to the new developers, depending on the type of project and the stage of the project: Business rules (domain) New technologies (R&D) Cryptic code bases [...]
Why use Code Contracts? By providing pre-compiled code contract interfaces other developers can adhere to signatures and also expected behavior. This is specially important due to the Liskov substitution principle. Dino Esposito wrote a great article on the topic called Code Contracts Preview: Interfaces. Testing To test that all the right contracts are in place [...]
I see a common copy-and-paste trend specially with junior developers. Many of them just copy-and-paste random internet code into their projects. After a while I ask them about their implementation… very few understand what they copy-and-paste and the implications of that implementation! I inquired further and it was clear that many used debug driven development [...]
I am currently building a lot of web services for Azure. Since URLs change a lot in development and deployment environments I needed to be able to have those services URLs updated dynamically. The easiest way I found is using handlers and: HttpContext.Current.Request.Headers["Host"]; This way none of the URLs get hard-coded and deployment is extremely easy. This also [...]
Ensure Binary Integrity of your build: The build either works or it does not work. This way it is easier to rule out errors in different layers of the project like database or logic Builds are obtained from files under source control: This means that if a problem happens the error can be linked to [...]
My name is Dan Merino. I specialize in research and development in web, mobile and IPTV. You can learn more about me at danmerino.com