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2 days ago • articles

Acceptance criteria for User Stories in Agile: Purposes, formats, examples, and best practices

Imagine that you ask your development team to enable users to search for a product in an online bookstore by category. You expect a straightforward interface with category links to...

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#agile #userstory #acceptance-criteria #bestpractices

3 days ago • articles

Implementing Advanced Long Polling in .NET 6

Long polling is a server-push technique used in web applications to efficiently update clients with new information. Unlike traditional polling, long polling keeps the request open until the server has...

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#net6 #longpolling

1 мая • articles

Почему программисты ошибаются в оценке сроков?

Всем известно, что сроки, названные программистами, нужно умножать на два. Ушлые проджект-менеджеры ещё добавляют — «и брать значение следующего порядка». Т.е. при оценке программистом требующегося времени в один час, в...

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Apr 29 • articles

Scheduling background jobs with Quartz.NET

Background tasks are crucial in many software applications, and scheduling them to run periodically or at specific times is a common requirement. In the .NET ecosystem, Quartz.NET provides a robust...

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#dotnet #csharp #backgroundjobs #quartznet

Feb 27 • books

Refactoring with C#

Safely improve .NET applications and pay down technical debt with Visual Studio, .NET 8, and C# 12