There are a lot of changes under the hood with the new release of Visual Studio 2015, ASP.NET and C# 6, but there are a couple syntactical changes that will not only make our code look better, but be a TON more efficient… Examples? How about the ability to add conditional statements to catch blocks? […]
Read MoreI just read (and am still digesting) a good article by Allan Kelly on the tension between project and software life cycles. I find it interesting because I have always “felt” this, but never put it into a structure I could wrap my head around. PM’s, devs and testers, we all need to read and […]
Read MoreI ran across a good article by Martin Fowler (UML and dev guru) on the emergence of Microservices. Microservices are simply services all working together, as opposed to having a single (monolithic) central point of process. Check out the paper here
Read MoreI may be late to the party, but i have just found a blog which gathers some of the most insightful, clever and informative tech pages from around the web. It is not only long lived (how many times have you gone to a blog only to find it is now a parked page?) but […]
Read MoreThere are a number of resources out there which show trends and hard data (albeit estimations for the most part) on the most common programming languages out there. This data can be used by engineers to determine what, if any, languages we should research and educate ourselves on. Keep in mind, simply looking at the […]
Read MoreIntroduction The browser wars have been long and arduous. When Netscape started up in 1994 as, for the most part, the only game in town, others were sure to follow. The years following were exciting to say the least. Microsoft, Apple, Google and many others all decided they wanted to get into the contest, even […]
Read MoreSo, you are a great, fun band and you go on tour. You sell 100,000 bucks in tickets and merch. Awesome right? Nope. i mean, it probably IS awesome, but it’s not the kind of experience that let’s you have Bentley’s in your next video. It is the kind of experience that let’s you […]
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Many of you know that I toy with domains a lot. Like, a LOT. That said, I often let my own domain (this one) kind of swing in the breeze. To that end I am re-evaluating the way I want to use this domain. Since I have been focusing on technology more and more in my […]
Read MoreIt is easy to stay focused on the security of your sites, your data, your domains but it is important to remember that, in this interconnected world we call the interwebs, you are only as strong as your weakest point. Choose your partners carefully. The latest Craigslist attack was not attacking Craigslist’s servers, but the […]
Read MoreI wrote this in 2003, before GMail, before Sharepoint, before Onenote, Evernote, or any of that. And I never did anything with it or showed it to anyone. I’m dumb. INTRODUCTION There are three distinct touch points to the clean flow of a piece of information’s life cycle: 1. Entry. This can be in a […]
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