What a year 2020 has turned out to be.. It was challenging on almost all aspects of my life. It was a year that required courage, a lot of patience and perseverance.
But 2020 is finally over now, as we welcome the first days of
The "Pavarotti-String" Design Pattern
First things fist: the "Pavarotti-String" design pattern, is not a design pattern :). It's more of a programming practice; and the idea was pitched to me about 3 or 4 years ago. But it can be a real pain if it's ignored in large code bases;
On the art of learning and the imposter syndrome
With this post, I would like to address how I learn, how I teach and how I deal with anxiety around the "imposter syndrome".
Always learning
Every developer, certainly in modern times, spends a lot of time learning new things. Improving and adding skills to
Human readable Dependency Injection in .NET Core
In many applications and development teams, dependency injection (or DI) with inversion of control (or IoC) has become standard practice for creating better software design. It allows for loosely coupled modules, better unit tests (or even TDD) and a better implementation of SOLID principles.
Over
Challenges on working from home
While the world is in the grip of the COVID-19 virus outbreak; more and more companies, scrum teams and individuals are confronted with a fairly confronting and unpleasant prospect. Having to work remotely for the next couple of weeks or even months.
The Belgian government,