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Moq adds nagware; Where’s the .NET Foundation in all this?
Moq is a mocking library for .NET Unit Testing (cue the TDD folks reminding us mocks are unnecessary), and it is by far the most widely used mocking library in .NET (475 million downloads vs 87 million for the next largest, NSubstitute). Yesterday, its author released version 4.20.1; which added nagware and a backdoor to…
Eighty Twenty
You’ve probably heard of the Pareto Principle, stating roughly that 80% of the outcomes come from 20% of the causes, or put another way: 80% of the value comes from 20% of the effort. You probably believe it. Heck, I know I do. Do you think that 80% of the value of your software “project”…
Think ‘experiment’ instead of ‘project’
I ranted a little bit yesterday on killing the word ‘project’, and and I was asked, “well, what should we use instead?” Great question, I would love to tell you. Projects give off an aura of “beginning, middle, and end”. At some point, this thing will be done. And that’s not true in software. There…
Can we kill the word ‘project’ please?
One of the things I do in the realm of strategic architecture is help companies migrate their legacy systems. This can be referred to as ‘modernization’, and generally it means rewriting the application in a new stack that may get developers psyched to go to work again. The current fad is to move .NET Framework…
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