NDepend review… Coming up

Patrick Smacchia, the lead developer at NDepend, recently offered me an NDepend Professional license and asked for a review.

For years, I’ve heard a ton about NDepend but never got to use it for real. Today I installed NDepend and was hit in the face by a bunch of static analysis features that NDepend provides. It’s a pretty slick piece of software and would definitely require a good amount of digging on my part to actually be able to give a comprehensive review.

NDepend is amazingly helpful and first impressions have been really nice. First thing you notice is that it would be a key addition to any continuous integration environment. I look forward to exploring it in more detail.

So, until the review is published…. adios!

“Only what you need son”

..and the word “need” right there is marked in a monstrous bold font.

We look around today and almost everything is on sale. People and businesses want you to buy. They show you that something is available for half the price, tell you that you can buy something in installments, on *easy* EMIs. They want to buy things that you probably do not need.

It’s easy to get swayed into the craziness.

I’m only human. I too have my needs and wants. I look at such things and ask myself, “Do I want it or Do I need it?”. Only when the answer comes out as “I need it!”, do I ever think of buying that *thing*, whatever it may be. It’s a nice perspective to have.

I take my *wants* as luxuries. I sure can afford some luxuries, but I need to look way ahead into the future and make sure that the decisions that I make today do not, in any way, harm my tomorrow.

However, every once in a while you need to satisfy at least one “want” that keeps your morale high and gets you through this unfair life, and hope and pray that it gets better one day at a time.