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Monday night I arrived in London, ready to attend .NET Best Practices and Design Patterns. Yesterday we had our first day. In the classroom we’re 9 students, and there’s three attending online. There was about an hour of introductions and practical information before we dived into the first module of the course, so lets do the same here. ##Chapter 1 ###Facade Pattern The facade pattern is a pattern that aims to make something complex easy to use. Basically what is does is to provide an unified interface to a set of interfaces in a (sub)system. It does not however give exclusive way to access these interfaces, so you can access them directly. For it to provide any value it shouldn’t be used if you’re using something once, but the second time you’re using something, you should consider if the facade pattern may be applicable. ...

The last four weeks have been intense. At work we had a tight schedule to be able to release our software before the vacation time, with a lot to do (meaning overtime, and a lack of energy when coming home). At home there’s been a lot of stuff happening with our appartment, which I’ll probably write about later, when it’s all sorted out. Anyway, we got the software released, and many of my colleagues are on vacation. My vacation isn’t until the end of July, and since it usually is a bit quiter in the mid-summer, I got the chance to attend a new course. Last year I attended Essential .NET 4.5 with C#, which was quite good. This year I’m again heading to London, to attend a course I feel is a natural next step, .NET Best Practices and Design Patterns, hosted by Learning Tree. This is a four day course which has the following description: ...

Last week NDC took place in Oslo. Unfortunately I were not able to attend this year, but I were able to attend PubConf, which took place the day after NDC ended. ##The what Not quite a conference; Not exactly an after party; Inspirational conversations with amazing developers This is what PubConf is described as on their own site, and that is exactly what it is. A lot of people met up at a pub in Oslo, beers where served, pub food were served and conversations were held. ...

All my life I’ve been using graphical user interfaces for applications that have provided it. It’s been quicker to get into, and I have never really liked the command line. What I’ve noticed lately is that I’ve been trying to use the command line more. Just typing commands, instead of moving the mouse all over the screen, is generally quicker, which makes me more productive. This post is a reference for Git commands, mostly for myself, but hopefully others might find it useful as well. So lets dive right in! ...

Recently I started listening to the podcast called Developer on Fire, hosted by Dave Rael. Each episodes features a guest, and the whole idea of the show is that Dave talks to each guest while they tell their stories. The show describes itself like this: Podcast with inspiring interviews with successful software developers, architects, testers, and other professionals with stories of success, failure, excellence, and inspiration In all the episodes I’ve heard so far, I’ve picked up quite a bit of inspiration. There is also a great amount of wisdom to learn from the guests, so I highly recommend that you head over to Developer on Fire, or find the show at iTunes or Stitcher. I am definitely looking forward to hear more episodes!