Salesforce outage that happened this month has rightfully provoked all sorts of discussions about the dangers of cloud offerings. Most of those discussions are only theoretically interesting, since they are, for the most part, speculations on various aspects of what needs to be done to avoid this kind of situations, what the customers can do,… Read More »
Lately, I have been observing how a commonly accepted approach to the business analysis collided with a little bit unorthodox business analysis methodology, so that made me thinking of what really makes a best practice.. Many of us start in the information technology industry through some sort of “science” education. For me, it was applied… Read More »
There is an interesting document that talks about some of the best practices for Dynamics CRM: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48268 What’s really interesting is that it does not tell you what and how to do, but, rather, it explains what was the thinking behind Dynamics CRM design and what the expectations are. Once you know that, there is,… Read More »
Here is how: -Create the text file gitignore.txt -Open it in a text editor and add your rules, then save and close -Then rename the file in the command line, with ren gitignore.txt .gitignore Here is the source of this little piece of wisdom: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10744305/how-to-create-gitignore-file
Was looking at the “strategy” and “iterator” patterns today. They are both operational/behavioral patterns, which makes them different from the creational patterns like the Factory Method, for instance. What’s interesting is that they might not be that different when it comes to the implementation. It’s the usage which makes them different. Strategy pattern is about… Read More »
This is not a title I just came up with. This is directly from Technet: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn646905.aspx Ok, I’m starting to wonder what am I up against this time around..
Yesterday, my fellow Dynamics CRM consultant Natalia Shlega who I talk a lot to (the main reason being not so much the fact that she’s a CRM consultant, though that does contribute.. but, rather, the fact that we happened to be married) pointed me to an article describing status reason transitions in Dynamics CRM. What… Read More »
There was a controversial article by Alex St. John last week where he went on saying that game developers should be prepared to work 80 hours per week, presumably not compensated for those extra 40 hours. This article was mentioned in my CodeProject subscription – that`s how I happened to find it. But here is… Read More »
While reading BABOK, I came across the following requirements classification – what’s interesting, I worked with quite a few business analysts, however, many of them would not be able to clearly explain the difference between business requirements and functional requirements. The information below is for my reference, then. Not that it becomes absolutely clear what… Read More »
There are people who inspire, who seem to know what they are doing, and in whose presence you start seeing the picture. We call them visionaries. Somehow, I was wondering what differentiates visionary people from others. And, then, I realized that, while talking about this quality of the human beings, we often use it in an… Read More »