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Fake Agile Is Killing Your Team—Here’s How to Spot It
I once worked with a chap who proudly described his delivery method as: “We do an Agile, then we Waterfall into another Agile, and then Waterfall into another Agile…” I’m sorry, what? That’s like saying We’re vegetarian, with occasional steaks between the tofu. It sounds clever until you realise it’s complete nonsense. Worse, it betrays…
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My 12-Year-Old Just Bypassed Windows 11 Parental Controls—and It’s Worse Than You Think
I set up Microsoft Family Safety on my kid’s Windows 11 laptop. I configured screen time limits. I thought it was secure. I was wrong. One day, I noticed something strange—the parental controls weren’t working. My son’s screen time limits weren’t kicking in. He was using the laptop far beyond what I had allowed. So,…
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Microsoft Dynamics: Unable to load plug-in assembly
Recently I have been working on Microsoft Dynamics 365 on-premise install for a project, and I came across an odd error when trying to assign roles to a user: Unable to load plug-in assembly.
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Avoiding the SLOTH Trap: Unrealistic Expectations in Systems Design
One of my favourite subjects during my MSc (also one of my top grades), was Human Factors in Systems Design. Therefore I shouldn’t act surprised that this subject is so present at my current work as the central focus in our process of designing and developing software. While I consider having a user-centred design approach…
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Wii U Haxchi and CBHC: There is a better option
Yes, I still have a Nintendo Wii U and I think it is one of the best consoles ever. Why? Because it can play all Wii U and Wii games, and once hacked it gives one the access to Homebrew and emulations spanning every generation that came before it!
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Old Windows? No Microsoft Store for you!
Microsoft (MSFT) has announced that the Microsoft Store will cease to work for Windows 8.x devices. Killing off the Microsoft Store for Windows 8.x? Sounds reasonable, right? After all this piece of garbage OS has not been supported for quite a while. Except that knowing MSFT, they might soon pull this off for people running…
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Why Business Intelligence Fails—And How to Practise It as a Discipline
If you want to deliver Business Intelligence (BI), you need to understand what it actually is. Unfortunately the industry is ridden with people that have a very poor understanding on the subject. Even worse, there are those who think they know what it is, but fail at the most fundamental test. In this post, I…
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Configure Azure WordPress web app to work with Exchange Online SMTP relay
I am on the process of recreating the public websites for my company using WordPress (which will do just fine for now). One of the cool things in Azure is that we can provision WordPress (and many other web applications for that matter) on a platform-as-a-service model, meaning that we don’t have to worry about…
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Dear developers: Enough with the bad coding
Good riddance 2016! Many would argue that it has been the worst year in decades. And while I do not want to get into the merit of the loss of talent the world has suffered, I did notice another heavy blow we took this past year: The quality of software developed on Windows. It seems…
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The blog thief
Shame on you, Intergen! You read about this sort of stuff but you never think it will happen to you—until it does. Just found out that a company in Wellington, New Zealand named Intergen has been using images and other content from my blog into the own presentations. They even call it “Diving into the…