Surround yourself with people who expect more from you Many studies have shown the great impact of teachers expectations on students achievements. [...] expectations exert powerful influences upon both student and teacher behavior whether the expectations come from an external source or are held internally...
NCrafts 2017 is a two days conference in Paris. I had the chance to also attend an event storming workshop run by Alberto Brandolini a day before the conference. It was full of fun, socialising and learning. Here are some of my takeways of those...
I have always been able to deliver what was asked and I was able to understand and pick up new project quickly, but the code base I would work on would always grow into something people would fear to touch, working with it would become...
Evolutionary Database Development, as coined in Martin Fowler’s book Refactoring Databases, is a concept whereby the design of the database is not done upfront, but instead is done in a way that evolves as the software that is relying on the data store does. In...
What enables code written in C#, F# and VB.Net to run within the same application? And what is .Net anyway? A standardised specification When I was working on a legacy website, developed in VB.Net, I had to implement PayPal Payments Pro. After some searching, I...
This is the last part of the series about how to scale an Umbraco website on the Windows Azure platform. You’re being successful, cater for more visits One of the benefits of platforms as a service like Windows Azure, is that you don’t have to...
In this second post of the three parts series about how to scale an Umbraco website on Windows Azure, we will install the CMS on our cloud platform. A one-click process, maybe a few more clicks If you don't have one yet, create your Windows...
This is the first post of a three parts series about how to scale an Umbraco website on Windows Azure platform. Part I: Yet another CMS Umbraco is “The friendliest open source MVC .Net framework community”, according to the Umbraco team. This open source content...
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