Principal Consultant
Nolan has spent the past 12+ years working with software, with projects spanning medical, law enforcement, logistics, government, technician services, and manufacturing sectors. Having worked in both product organizations and consultancies, he has a perspective that balances earning value quickly with designing for the long term.
Recently Nolan has been helping define and implement the minimum functionality needed to bring a manufacturing facility online on an accelerated schedule.
Recently Nolan has been helping define and implement the minimum functionality needed to bring a manufacturing facility online on an accelerated schedule.
Latest Posts
Streamlining your automated tests, Pt 1
TL;DR Writing automated tests for your complex scenarios is important, but it’s easy for the tests to become difficult for other developers (including your 6-month future-self) to read and understand. Using a builder method for the “happy path” that returns an object...
How to prevent these 4 legacy system modernization pitfalls
Because legacy system modernization projects tend to be the exception rather than the norm, most people have limited experience with them. It’s not hard to imagine the result—many of the modernization-specific pitfalls are easy to overlook. Not only is the scale of...
3 tips for tuning your skills with C# strings
You may be guilty of taking strings for granted. They’re baked into the framework as a built-in type, and since almost every codebase uses them they tend to just fade into the background. Throughout the years, though, I’ve seen people new to C# use strings in several...