Month: March 2016
How to Add Static Analysis to Your Development Process
As a consultant, one of the more universal things that I’ve observed over the years is managerial hand-waving. This comes in a lot with the idea of agile processes, for instance....
Legacy Code for Developers: Managing your Manager
Here’s a campfire horror story of legacy code that probably sounds at least somewhat familiar. One day, your manager strolls by casually, sipping a cup of coffee, and drops a...
Static Analysis for Small Business
I was asked recently, kind of off the cuff, whether I thought that static analysis made sense for small business. I must admit that the first response that popped into...
A Visual Studio script that saves time and pain
After years of pain, I finally found a clean-and-definitive way to get rid of the dreadful issue Could not copy assembly, the process cannot access the file because it is...
A Manager’s Guide to Legacy Code
If you have a sadistic streak and manage a team of software developers, it’s probably high entertainment to dredge up some old, dusty piece of software and then to task...