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Developer PC 2013 19 Aug 2013 | 05:48 am
For the last 3 years (since Mrs Rendle offered me a MacBook Pro in exchange for turning my “study” into a spare room) I’ve been doing all my development work on laptops of one sort or another. They’ve...
The new MSDN, and airline surveys 2 Aug 2013 | 07:42 pm
Microsoft have just launched a new look for MSDN. For as long as I can remember, MSDN has been the gateway to all things Microsoft and development, so it’s always interesting to see how they’ve improv...
AngularJS & TypeScript at Progressive .NET 2013 29 May 2013 | 02:23 pm
If you’re coming to my half-day tutorial on building Single Page Applications with AngularJS and TypeScript and Simple.Web, there are some things you’re going to need that you might not already have. ...
On open-source motivations and commitment 27 Apr 2013 | 05:47 am
Last night I took part in a panel on Microsoft and OSS as part of dotNetConf, and I was trying to keep one eye on the Jabbr room while also being a useful part of the panel, which was fun. Anyway, at ...
Don’t unit test trivial code 10 Mar 2013 | 03:19 am
Hopefully just a brief post in response to one I consider to be spectacularly wrong. TL;DR Don’t test other people’s code. Don’t test implementation details. Don’t pad your test suite with pointless t...
Saving Git credentials for HTTPS remotes in Windows 14 Feb 2013 | 06:03 am
Very quick post I just started using the new Git support in Team Foundation Service (which is also to say “I just started using Team Foundation Service”). It’s great; it’s proper Git and it works with...
Post-mature optimization 31 Jan 2013 | 08:35 pm
I leave optimizations to the end, as much as possible. Get the code working, then profile it and optimize the problem areas. It was not always thus, but obviously one of the occasions when I found mys...
Building web apps in 2013 4 Jan 2013 | 06:08 pm
A Very Short Post: I’ve lately come to the opinion that desktop application development is a moribund activity, which suits me quite nicely because I’ve never really liked any of the ways people inven...
It’s gonna be the future soon 2 Jan 2013 | 05:31 pm
I wrote a few posts last year which talked about the near(ish) future of computing, devices and so on, but I never really gave a detailed description of where I think the hardware side of things is go...
Surface First Impressions 29 Oct 2012 | 05:05 pm
So I went and queued for 3 hours at the Microsoft Store in Orlando, Florida and paid $700 for a 64GB Surface with a Touch Cover. I’m going to spend at least a week using it instead of my iPad for as m...
