Possible thing to add to Albacore There is currently a way to detect discrepancies of the csproj view of what is supposed to be compiled. Stale or wrong library references Sometimes we find that there is a reference to an old version of a library in one of the projects of a solution (someone discovers this when they build from scratch without old versions in packages folder). Another way to discover this is when we get an assembly load exception due to an unexpected version of an assembly. Another way f[...]

Why should a coder avoid old technologies? Large complicated systems are often written in older technologies Newer technologies can mean assignments with fewer lines of code and more greenfield development. Since the amount of code is proportional to the amount of time and people spent working on that code. Greenfield development is easier than working with millions of lines of code. It can however be an interesting challange to rewrite an older system. Market value. In order to sell consulting service[...]

Technical debt is a concept that suggests that the cost of developing software has been postponed. For instance it can be the conscious act of delivering features while taking shortcuts (in order to get them delivered at a certain date). Cost in time related to technical debt When changing a component, the amount of bugs introduced is often related to technical debt of that components. Higher technical debt means greater likelihood of bugs. The time to resolve various issues is related to the technical [...]

Some patterns I’ve usually encountered while working code bases written by .net developers. You can also read more on msdn. Domain driven design inspired Usually you find classes with postfix name like: Repository : List like interface for working with persisted data. Usually state of fetched objects is tracked, so you can do customerContext.Save() to persist changes to objects. Service : An object that contains domain logic, but does not have a life of it’s own (using instead entities). Related [...]

While working as a consultant at a company that uses svn, I needed to keep a branch in sync with the master branch. This turns out to be a lot of work. Problem was that it was not possible to just clone the repository using git svn. The clone failed after a while (I think due to the long connection time). First you might want to read up on it from this blog post. The command I used was something like: git svn clone -r 10327 --username=oskar.gewalli http://company.com/scm/svn/Project project --stdlayout[...]