My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Large Tech taking on inequality

January 13, 2021
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I had meant to talk about Microsoft’s commitment to battling inequality earlier this year but I have to be honest it ...

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Catching Stack Overflow Exceptions

December 15, 2020
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In the last couple of weeks I have seen at least three colleagues ask about capturing memory dumps during stack ...

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Invalid Access to memory location in KUDU App Services

December 10, 2020
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So I came across an interesting problem where immediately following a CI/CD deployment it appeared as if my entire ...

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Always make room for kindness

December 03, 2020
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I found myself thinking about the qualities that are important to make me a better friend, husband, brother and ...

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Balancing promises in your software

November 12, 2020
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My latest public conversation about software has just been uploaded! I talk to Robby Russell on his podcast series ...

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ASP.NET Community Standup - Updating Scott's blog to DasBlog Core

October 28, 2020
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Got invited onto the ASP.NET Community Standup this week to chat about DasBlog Core, the direct descendent of the ...

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A talk about Dump File analysis

October 26, 2020
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I had a fun chat today with my colleague Mads Kristensen on the Visual Studio live stream today! Our topic was one that ...

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Simple AiMesh Wi-Fi System

October 22, 2020
3 min read

With the growing number of work from home video calls I have been keeping an eye on my network connectivity. I am ...

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Debugger Tip - Step into a specific method

October 15, 2020
2 min read

I have some really gnarly examples of code in my open source project that are ostensibly expressed as a single line of ...

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