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Surface Duo

October 07, 2019
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It was made clear, quite categorically, that being a Microsoft employee gives you almost zero insights into the ...

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Adjusting StackFrames in Visual Studio

September 18, 2019
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I wrote a blog post recently about how Visual Studio can be used to review memory dumps. In my example I introduced the ...

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Kudu error with maxViewItems in localstorage

September 09, 2019
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So I am using Azure App Services recently and wanted to review a list of files in my content folder, I have just under ...

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Aligning with management using OKRs

September 04, 2019
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One of the challenges I had when first joining Microsoft was that the plans for the division always felt very high ...

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Hyperkin Super Retron HD

August 27, 2019
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The first NBA video game I ever played, or more accurately, the first NBA video game I loved was Tecmo Super NBA ...

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Being a Program Manager feels more like Baseball

August 20, 2019
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I think my career as an engineer has had a mostly limited vision of success, by that I mean, if the customer hated what ...

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Nuances of the XmlConfigurationProvider

August 09, 2019
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The XmlConfigurationProvider loads configuration XML data from file and along with the ConfigurationBuilder. It really ...

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Create Interfaces with default implementations

July 30, 2019
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My favorite design improvement for C# 8 has to be the ability to add the default implementation of a method or property ...

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Microsoft hologram speaking Japanese

July 22, 2019
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I have been appropriately surprised by everything about the HoloLens experiment and last weeks keynote at the Microsoft ...

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