- Feedback-Centric Development - The One Hacker WayErik Meijer got something right in his talk "One Hacker Way". There's a lot of bashing and ranting... but at the core there also is a precious diamond to…
- How Passion Saved Windows> “Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” – Howard H. Aiken
- Boo appSettings! Yay applicationSettings!First off, please see my internet PSA at the bottom of this post on the difference between “yea”, “yeah”, and “yay”. Now that that is out of the way, I…
- Learning Java 8 By Mike Kelly, O'Reilly Media Video ReviewWhy I chose to learn on Java 8 is because of all the latest buzz around it. Turns out the rumours on the demise of Java have been greatly exacerbated. So…
- Using Log4Net for Application InsightsMoved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2014/11/09/using-log4net-for-application-insights/
- PostgreSQL: Up and Running by Regina Obe, O'Reilly Media Book ReviewA Practical Guide to the Advanced Open Source Database Like I have already mentioned in my previous blog post databases are lately in the spotlight, left…
- Mastering DynamoDB by Tanmay Deshpande, Packt Publishing Book Review! Databases are very much in the spotlight lately and especially the NoSQL breed. While there are dozens of offerings on the market only a handful tops…
- TypeScript Import casing mattersI have a TypeScript class with PascalCasing, but the file name was camelCasing.ts (to match our other existing js files) and my TypeScript wouldn’t…
- Getting Started with Impala by John Russell, O’Reilly Media Book ReviewInteractive SQL for Apache Hadoop is a recent, but very valuable addition to the Hadoop ecosystem. I must say (after reading the book) Cloudera made a big…
- Correct Operation of Red Line Laser AlignmentI do not know how can users get the most accurate line generation with a commonly used line measuring tool such as line, rope, triangular board or square…
- Configure Azure storage to return proper response headers for blob GETsIn the early days of Azure blob storage, the response headers for HTTP GET requests were not quite right. The ETag header wasn't escaped with…
- Favorite Visual Studio ExtensionsThe Visual Studio Gallery is the best place to find tools, controls, and templates to help make your life as a developer easier and more productive. Every…
- Windows 8–can’t install .Net Framework 3.5 (0x800F0906, 0x800F081F)I’d recently put Windows 8 on a test machine at work and started installing what software I needed. Pretty quickly I found I needed to install .Net…
- How Agility leads to functional design and even TDDWhat is it that the customer wants when she orders a software? Behavior. I define behavior as the relationship between input, output, and side effects.
- Quick Guide to setup a MVC project for Unit TestingReposted on my new blog. Come visit me there! A barrier to getting into writing executable tests (Unit Tests, integration tests, automated UI tests, etc)…
- Windows Authentication in Asp.Net Web ApplicationWhen we are building any intranet web application, it is always better go with windows authentication in order to authenticate user against AD(Active…
- Thread Contention EffectsThread Contention Effects Recently I have seen an interesting performance question on SO which deals with Parallel.For in .NET. The code was basically
- Auto restore Nuget packages with TFS Build the right wayTill last year I was still checking in dll references (for libraries & packages) used by my software in TFS. I could then easily configure MS Build to…
- The Incremental Architect´s Napkin - #7 - Nest flows to scale functional designYou can design the functionality of any Entry Point using just 1D and 2D data flows. Each processing step in such flows contains logic1 to accomplish a…
- badapi.net just got badderThe original release of was a bit limited – you could get whatever error response you needed, but only if you changed your client to point to the…
