Following on from my article on Mescoservices back in 2015, this article expands on an idea I had in September on how monoliths, mescoservices, and microservices fit into organisation design. The microservices vs Conway test encodes a common piece of advice into a first-draft formula for testing your architecture against your organisation. Microservice Advice Microservices […]
Yes, this is a sub-post! A reaction to a post titled “Why Devs (Should) Like Estimates”. I try not to get involved in industry conversations about estimation (or, indeed, #NoEstimates) as it can get very dicey at a general level in ways that simply don’t occur for a specific team or organisation. I’ll briefly qualify […]
There’s a feature in Google Chrome and the new Chromium version of Microsoft Edge that navigates back or forward through your browser history when you swipe. It navigates on touch interactions, and also on track-pad interaction. If you use some web-based tools that feature horizontal scrolling (such as online Kanban boards) – this becomes infuriating. […]
Recently, I wrote about debugging Adobe Analytics, which uses the most widely-available tools that we all have; browser developer tools. It is possible to debug and test a whole host of analytics and tag manager scenarios using the Console and Network tabs of browsers tools if you are willing to scry the query parameters of […]
Most of my time is spent in technical-land, where we use tools such as Azure DevOps to manage the flow of work. There is, though, another side to our business and they love Trello. For at least part of my day, I’m looking at colourful lists of stuff that the business are pushing around in […]
Websites change. Often. If your analytics depend too much on the exact implementation details of your website your world will be full of hurt when you change it later on. This is why I prefer to use custom events to decouple Adobe Analytics from the website it is tracking. Here’s an example. You could set […]
The Apprentice (UK). It started out as a show that offered the prize of a job working for Sir (now Lord) Alan Sugar. If you trust in the magic of television, you’ll believe that a series of tasks were devised to test the many skills needed to take on a job in one of the […]
If you have been developing SQL Server databases for a while, you may remember performing neat tricks to implement paging. If you haven’t found it yet, there is a simple modern way to do paging in SQL Server that doesn’t require any tricks. For those who have used Linq in C#, you will have come […]
This is a quick article about using .NET Core Identity without the standard pages. It was almost titled “why does .NET Core Identity ignore my LoginPath that I set in options?”. Let’s start with a common chunk of code that you’ll find in your Startup.cs file if you’ve added identity to your project… services.AddIdentity<ApplicationUser, ApplicationRole>() […]
These notes will help you to easily collect an audit history on SQL Server tables. There are lots of ways to do this, including options that let you specify the exact table schema you want to use to track the history of changes, but this option is a neat way to get some robust tracking […]