The second Tuesday of the month is “Patch Tuesday” when Microsoft issues the security and other important fixes for the month. This month there are two…

Well, maybe a stretch, but I am inclined to believe it is so. I have been using the JavaScript Client Object Model (JCSOM) for about 6 months now and I…

“Regular expressions—powerful tools for manipulating text and data—are now standard features in most languages and tools. Yet despite their widespread…

Moved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2014/06/05/copy-tfs-build-definitions-between-projects-and-collections/

Releasing the new Sample Browser Phone app !(http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-01-22-09/5810.TOPBA…

Microsoft have issued a long article about Visual Studio “14” CTP at. Please remember that the 14” CTP does NOT have “side-by-side” support and thus…

ASP.NET vNext was announced at TechEd 2014, and I have been playing around with it a bit. ASP.NET vNext is an exciting and revolutionary change for the…

](http://www.packtpub.com/python-for-finance/book) I picked Python in Finance from Packt Publishing to review expecting to bore myself with complex…

Since my last post on using CMS for semi-static API content, How about a new platform for your next API… a CMS?, I’ve been using the idea for centralized…

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In this post I’m going to outline a few common methods that can be used to increase the coverage of of your test suite. This won’t be yet another post on…

I volunteered myself to give a short 30 minute presentation at a work lunch and learn on NodeJs. With my limited experience I see using Node as a great…

This is the second of two posts on some common strategies for approaching the job of writing tests. The previous post covered test-after workflows where…

Page speed was an important issue 10 years ago, when we all had slow modems, but became less so with the advent of fast broadband connections that even…

Currently I'm working on a single page application project which is built on AngularJS and ASP.NET WebAPI. When I need to implement some features that…

Software development is an economic endeavor. A customer is only willing to pay for value. What makes a software valuable is required to become a trait of…

As a Visual Studio extension developer you are required to keep the aesthetics of Visual Studio in tact when you integrate your extension with Visual…

I’m seeing a type of API emerge which serves static or long-lived resources, which are mostly read-only and have a controlled process to update the data…