Earlier on in the summer I set out to gain a little bit more knowledge on three areas: User Experience Scrum Agile Methodologies Test Driven Development I started out doing a lot of courses to learn the theory behind it and then decided that I should create a project to put in practice and make…
Real Time Gilded Rose Refactoring Kata in C#
I’ve done a few rounds of the Gilded Rose Refactoring kata now. Below is a real-time coding session that I’ve done.
Gilded Rose TDD and Refactoring Kata Walkthrough
As part of my summer learning plan, I also wanted to practice refactoring and test driven development. I have been doing the Gilded Rose refactoring kata for the past 3 days and I have to say that it really is a great way to practice. After every iteration, I noticed an improvement in the code…
Summer Learning
With the Swedish Summer, we have quite a bit of downtime at work. I have also just come back from a 4 week long vacation from the Philippines so I’m feeling quite refreshed. I’ve planned out my summer to learn about a few things that will hopefully make myself a more well rounded software developer:…
Microsoft Ignite the Tour
I had the opportunity to attend microsoft ignite the tour and it was really great! My first experience attending as a working developer. It was not a very dev focused event. Much of the content were actually more relevant for IT Pros but still very relevant for me. The sessions I attended were quite intense…
“The data area passed to a system call is too small”
I got this error when trying to start up the NVIDIA Control panel. I still have no idea what is causing it or how one fixes it. The workaround I found was to go in to that directory to find the app and then create a shortcut and pin it to the Start menu. If…
Fixing the missing headphone jack on a ThinkPad P1
I wanted to plug in a headset to take calls on the P1 and noticed that while it was playing audio into the headset, it was still picking up audio from the built in mic. Looking at the sound settings showed only the “Digital Jack” visible. None of the solutions previously posted (from forum posts…
New ThinkPad P1!
My new work machine arrived and it’s awesome. I never looked at workstation models before because my impression of it is that it’s bulky and it’s meant to just sit at a desktop and do it’s thing. The ThinkPad P1 is very similar to the ThinkPad X1 Extreme. As much as I would have loved…
Hello world!
This is probably the umpteenth blog that I have started. Let’s see how long this one lasts…