I don’t make a lot of “lessons learned” posts anymore, but here’s hoping this quick post saves some of you out there a headache when you get this message and google it. A few weeks back, I had an issue with the Git source code provider in Visual Studio and tweeted about it here (though…
In the last post in this series, I covered the essentials of unit testing without diving into the topic in any real detail. The idea was to offer sort of a guerrilla guide to what unit testing is for those who don’t know but feel they should. Continuing on that path and generating material for…
REST Web Services Are Fundamental In my career, I’ve sort of drifted like a wraith among various technology stacks and platforms, working on web sites, desktop apps, drivers, or even OS/kernel level stuff. Anything that you might work on has its enthusiasts, its peculiar culture, and its best practices and habits. It’s interesting to bop…
I was setting up to give a presentation the other day when it occurred to me that Nuget was the perfect tool for my needs. For a bit of background, I consider it of the utmost importance to tell a story while you present. Things I’m not fond of in presentations include lots of slides…
Mindshare I’m not particularly interested in marketing principles in the commercial sense of the word (though I find the psychology of argumentation and persuasion to be fascinating), so please excuse any failed parallelism in advance. Today, I want to talk about the concept of mind share, but to apply it to the life of a…
