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I wrote Snikt! to take away the pain of data access logic. - @kosalanuwan

Check out Snikt! This brand new micro-ORM code is free for commercial and non-commercial deployments and distribution. Snikt! is a sequel to #ClassicDALHelpers project.

You can download the #NuGet package from here.

Tags:  ORM    Micro-ORM    SQL    Data    DAL    ClassicDALHelpers    Snikt    Github    NuGet    Opensource   

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Do we need another wheel again? article explains how to implement a tab control with horizontal tabs, and vertical tabs, converting it to an accordion and then a horizontal and vertical menus. See the code samples on jsfiddle.net.

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Tags:  Lazy Developer Series    Interaction Design    How To    HDI    Development    No JavaScript    HTML5    CSS3    Tabs    Accordions    Menus    JSFiddle   

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It’s uncommon to find a lull moment for a scrum team, so, many try to get busy, occupying them leisurely. This article demonstrates DOs and DON’Ts during a lull in a sprint.

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Tags:  Scrum    Agile    Lean Coffee    Productivity    Sprints    Scrum Teams    Feature Crews    Distributed Scrum    Lull   

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Distributed scrum teams always have challenges since they are physically departed into different building, cities, regions, and even countries miles away. This blog post explains why it is important to bring them back together and how we developers can do it as a team.

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Tags:  Agile    Co-locating Teams    DIfferent Time Zones    Distributed Scrum    Productivity    Scrum    Scrum Teams    Social Network    Team Bonding    Outsource    Offshore    Social Media   

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(…) it is not a sin to copy some code snippets from StackOverflow, Github, Gist, or from a blog post, tweak a bit, and ship it to production. - @kosalanuwan

This blog post talks about how the social networks have changed the software engineering world in a way that we developers will not survive without it.

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Tags:  Programming    Social Network    Lazy Developer Series    Image Building    Online Branding    Software Craftsmanship    Career Development    StackOverflow    Facebook    Github   

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I believe that, with agile I don’t need prescriptions; I have to be disciplined, self-motivated, self-organized, a dedicated individual who writes beautiful code every time… - @kosalanuwan

This post was based on a discussion that happened about the need for Clean Code, the need for Software Craftsmanship.

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Tags:  Apprenticeship    Clean Code    Clean Coder    Journeyman    Programming    Software Craftsmanship   

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Want to know what happens in Code Kata? Here is a compiled list of posts on Code Kata. Posts include rules, roles, how to etc. on Code Kata.

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Tags:  Code Kata    Pair Programming    Clean Code    Software Craftsmanship    Programming    How To