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I’ve been doing some work for a website which would be deployed to Azure for both the website and the database. Here is a quick run-down on how the deploy situation went, an error that gave me fits and the final-fix. First off, let me say I had this website entirely working on my local … Read more
Microsoft .. love em or hate em (and I love em) has been making some big, big strides this past year. For a long time, I wondered (and I wasn’t alone) if they were “anti” web. But now they are coming into their own, joining the open source movement, going cross-platform and in general, getting … Read more
During a conversation with another developer friend of mine, an idea to create this hit me. I think we all have days where we can identify with this to some extent. When you think about it, a lot of what we do/feel as developers falls into these buckets. Or heck maybe it’s just me. (Please … Read more
I recently discovered a feature in the most amazing IDE in the cosmos .. otherwise known as Visual Studio. Myself and some fellow developers were having a discussion about AngularJS and JSON data. As you may expect we started talking about ways to get the JSON data into our C# classes. During that discussion one … Read more
Do you ever get overwhelmed with software complexity? There is always it seems, a new framework this and a doomaflagit-that coming out. More to learn, more to learn. Learning is not a bad thing. As we all know in IT, that’s kinda our thing … we keep doing that learning thing. The upside of this … Read more
In my last post, we talked about “Are You Team A or Team B?” and ran through what those teams might look like. I showed the post to a friend of mine and he noted that I might be leaving some folks out. Maybe folks that are just looking to get on their first team at … Read more
Today I wanted to talk a bit about team environments. If you’ve been in IT for awhile, having worked on a few teams, you’ll get where I’m coming from. If you’re still a bit green to the industry, take heart, for today I will explain the two main team buckets out there in our field. … Read more
Whilst searching for a MacBook on Ebay, I came across this little gem and had to share it. HORIZONTAL VERTICAL PORTABLE LAPTOP BED STAND This impressed me so much I made a late-night-TV-commercial script for it! ** Disclaimer: I am only poking fun at late-night TV commercials and in general anybody who is simply too … Read more
Do you guys use this feature, Scope To This, in Solution Explorer? I recently started using it and found it quite handy. Basically it does what it sounds like in that you get to ‘scope’ to a section within Solution Explorer. Why should you consider using it? Let’s say, if in a large solution you … Read more
Ever had one of those days, especially when you’re in a new gig, that you’re just kinda bouncing around from [what seems to you] problem to problem? You have that unsettled feeling Coming up to speed at a new place is often difficult and can try your patience with yourself. So here is how it … Read more