Adobe Lightroom: Issues with Most Updates

The article outlines the author's frustration with Adobe Lightroom Classic updates, citing issues like lost edits and export failures due to catalog format changes. They urge for better testing, maintenance of user setups, and swift bug resolution. Specific grievances include vanished settings, performance decline, and incompatibility with MacMini systems. The author emphasizes the need for Adobe to prioritize user experience to retain subscribers.

Modernizing Microsoft Office: A Call for Innovation in Word

The author highlights numerous issues and shortcomings in Microsoft Word, particularly in handling large documents, citing problems ranging from formatting glitches, freezing during auto-save, and persistent errors with the Read Aloud feature. The article not only calls for urgent innovation and improvement in Microsoft Office to align with contemporary technological standards but also emphasizes the importance of user feedback as a crucial guide for necessary innovations.

Rethinking the Role of Development Managers: A Call for Change in the Software Industry

This article highlights the pressing issue of ineffective development managers in the software industry, leading to negative consequences such as declining product quality, customer attrition, and employee turnover. The author recounts personal experiences and emphasizes the need for companies to reevaluate the workload and support for development managers to ensure their success and ultimately improve project outcomes.

Public Service Announcement: PMs and Managers Must Ensure Memory Issues are Not Introduced in Microsoft .NET Projects!

I have been writing about this in books and articles since the beginning of Microsoft .NET over 20 years ago. This first PSA is geared toward Project Managers and Development Managers as a warning, so their projects don't suffer from preventable issues like this that I see at every company I work for.

Decoding the Evolution: Navigating the Complexities of Modern Software Engineering and Its Pitfalls

The article emphasizes the importance of considering coding as only a fraction of overall job responsibilities in software development. It discusses challenges such as hiring practices, subpar architecture, and code quality issues, presenting alarming statistics like 48,000 code violations and 217,000 lines of cloned and unused code, highlighting the negative impact on project progress and suggesting a need for a dialogue to improve the software development life cycle.

Issues & Features Needed for Microsoft Office

I have been using Microsoft Office / 365 for all of my presentations, documents, spreadsheets, and more for decades. While I like it the best, there is a lot of room for improvement and like any software, it has issues. Below is my running list of these issues and features I think need to be … Continue reading Issues & Features Needed for Microsoft Office

New Code Rules: Too Many .NET Engineers DO NOT Understand How Memory Management Works!

On show #38 of Rockin' the Code World with dotNetDave, I am ranting about far too many .NET software engineers DO NOT understand how memory management works when it comes to disposable objects! Not matter what level of software engineer you are, you need to watch this episode... NOW!

New Code Rules: Operating Systems Must Make It Easy to Restore Apps and User Data!

On show #37 of Rockin' the Code World with dotNetDave, I am ranting about how the Windows refresh feature does not restore apps or most user data. The MAC OS does not have a refresh feature at all! This needs to be fixed and fast!

New Code Rules: Security Rules Placed on Software Engineer Environments Has Gotten OUt of Hand!

On show #36 of Rockin' the Code World with dotNetDave, I am ranting about all the security placed on software engineers and their work environments. As you can see from the poll below, over 50% of engineers are reporting that they are losing 6% to over 20% of productivity, daily! This has gotten out of hand!

New Code Rules: Onboarding Software Engineers

On show #33 of Rockin' the Code World with dotNetDave, I am discussing why at some companies, it takes so long to get engineers onboarded so they can start coding and providing value to the company! I've seen this take one to two weeks! There has to be a better way!