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If you are always saying no, you are doing agile very wrong!

“The essence of Agile movement … rests on two foundational goals: delivering valuable products to customers and creating working environments in which people look forward to coming to work each day.”

Jim Highsmith

Modern agile principles may have strong roots in technology companies, but they have found their way into all sorts of businesses in recent years.

Unfortunately, pre-packaged “agile…

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3 Ways Knowledge is Leaking from your Business (and how to stop it)

In an economy where knowledge is as valuable as labour, the constant loss of knowledge from businesses has become a major dividing line between companies that succeed and lead, and those constantly running just to stay still.

“There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.”

Buddha

Like a dripping tap, knowledge can leak from several places in any organisation, but there are…

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Five tips for meaningful AI Chat Bots

Chat bots are starting to appear everywhere. From making an insurance claim, to customer support, and even providing guided professional coaching sessions.

Some of these chat bots are friendly and help you get what you need arranged really quickly. Others feel like a poor-quality customer service cost reduction sitting between you and the person who can actually resolve your problem.

Over the…

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Turning Ideas into Online Services

“Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.” – Thomas Edison

When it comes to ideas for online services or delivering your business digitally, this discouragement most often comes when the technology looks overwhelming and the experts want to tell you how hard it is, rather…

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3 Steps to Gamification that Works

Whether you’ve had a bad experience with gamification in the past and want to understand why, or if your planning to gamify for the first time, following these 3 simple steps will allow you to both avoid the most common pitfalls, and help you build gamification that not only engages people, but changes people.

Step 1 – Gamify behavioural change, not time spent

Let’s start with one of the most…

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Does your LMS play nicely with others?

With the recent release of Learn with Mobile’s latest RESTful and webhook APIs, I found myself feeling very grateful that open interoperability and integration have started to become standard practice for leading cloud service providers.

Yes there is still software in every industry where its vendor continues to refuse to play nicely with others. If you work in a large company or SME its…

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#API #HR #Learning #LMS #Open source #Programming

Don’t let MAJOR version number worries stop you using Semantic Versioning (Semver)

Why Should I Use Semantic Versioning?

Semantic Versioning (semver) is specification for version numbers of software libraries and similar dependencies.

Its rules are not new, and are similar to how most library version numbers have been managed for years. However the idea of semver is that if libraries use exactly the same rules around version numbers then developers using libraries can know…

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#API #NuGet #Semantic Versioning #semver #Version Numbers

Universal Software Principles

Universal Software is software that can be used natively on any device and guarantees universal reuse, extension, and maintenance.

The four fundamental principles of universal software are:

The software must run natively on any hardware, Operating System, and network (Environment Independence Principle).

The software must allow reuse of complete or part functionality as modules to create new…

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#Cross-platform #Open Standards #Principles #Universal Software

Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) is much more than using the technique of Dependency Injection

Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) is much more than Dependency Injection

What is the Dependency Inversion Principe (DIP)

The Dependency Inversion Principle (often referred to as DIP) is one of the five basic principles of object orientated programming and design known as SOLID.

The principle states:

A. High-level modules should not depend on low-level modules. Both should depend on abstractions. B. Abstractions should not depend on details. Details should depend on…

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#Dependency Injection #Dependency Inversion Principle #Software Design #SOLID

The Open Source vs Commercial Development Myth

The two can Co-Exist

Looking around the internet you could believe that open source software development, and commercial software development, are opposing forces that can never meet or work well together. All experienced software developers know this is…

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#Application programming interface #best practice #Copyleft #GNU General Public License #GNU Lesser General Public License #GPL #License #Open source #Open source license #Permissive free software licence #Programming

C# Code Guidelines

Coding Guidelines

Every development team or software development team need guidelines to follow to help them write consistent code that keeps maintenance costs low, and development productivity and code reuse high.

I recently updated the ones I use with…

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#.NET Framework #Application programming interface #async #await #best practice #C #code #DRY #Extension method #Language Integrated Query #Programming #readability #Tips

17 Years of Porting Software... Finally Solved

A History of Porting Software

I’ve been involved in creating and maintaining commercial and open source software for as long as I can remember, reaching back to 1996 when the world wide web was in its infancy, and Java wasn’t even a year old.

I was…

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Google Glass - time to make your applications wearable

Wearable Technology

I’ve been having a bit of fun with Google Glass recently. If you haven’t come across Google Glass before, I’d describe it as a pair of glasses you can wear that give you personal, voice controlled, simple computer.

Now I don’t…

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#Apple #Cross-platform #Google #Google Glass #IPad #IPhone #Mvpc #Wearable computer #Wearable technology

Flexible API Documentation with ApiDoc (http://apidoc.codeplex.com)

What is ApiDoc

ApiDoc is a tool for creating a set of technical API documents to help developers…

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#.NET Framework #ApiDoc #ApiDocumentation #Application programming interface #MSDN #Programming #Source code

Object.ToStringSafe()

If like me you’ve worked with C# and the .NET framework for years then you will probably have written variations on following code hundreds of time when trying to display values on screen or save values into text based files or SQL statements:

object…

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#.NET Framework #best practice #C #Extension method #Null Object pattern #Programming #Tips

Installing the Mvpc Visual Studio Add-in and Nuget Feed

Getting Involved with Mvpc

The Mvpc reference libraries used by all developers in Ambidect are also…

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#Ambidect Technology #Cross-platform #Microsoft Visual Studio #Mvpc #NuGet #Programming #Rapid Prototyping #Visual Studio

Async extension method wrappers

Asynchronous APIs are becoming more popular thanks in part to the focus on asynchronous user interface design requirements on platforms such as Windows Store Applications for Windows 8 and Windows RT.

This attempt to change the way developers think about…

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#.NET Framework #Ambidect Technology #Application programming interface #async #Asynchrony #await #C #Cross-platform #Extension method #Mvpc #Portable Class Library #Programming #Windows RT

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