The blog has been quiet for the last 10 days or so and that’s because, as I mentioned previously, I was heading off on vacation. We had a good time; a few days in Seattle, a brief stop in Vancouver, and then a cruise along the Inner Passage of Alaska, where we stopped in a…
This is going to be another one of those posts where, in an attempt to explain myself, I may wind up putting my own bizarre pathologies on display for the world to see, but c’est la vie. I think that I can start most easily by saying that it drives me insane when people interrupt…
I was having an interesting email discussion with someone not too long ago, and he made an offhand comment about code reviews that I noticed, identified with, and thought was probably a common experience. In essence, he said that he was yet to see them done well and be anything other than depressing experiences. For…
I recorded this clip at a home, where I have a pretty old dual core processor that’s really starting to show its age when I have the video capture software running alongside VS2013 with all of my plugins. So, if you see the recording looking a little choppy in places, it’s because I edited out…
I have received a comment or two here and there over the last year, asking whatever happened to the home automation posts I used to do. These were admittedly sporadic, largely because I work all day, then I moonlight at night with freelance gigs and Pluralsight, and then I blog regularly, and only then do…
