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Sample performance reviews for technical teams

November 27, 2017
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When you are in a medium to large size company the yearly reviews become a really important opportunity to reflect on ...

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Defining a Strategy

November 19, 2017
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Our VP was talking to our extended teams a few months back and he said something that stuck with me about how he ...

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When the answer creates more questions

November 12, 2017
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For the last couple of years I have been working to improve the speed with which my extended team deals with platform ...

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Hacking in Public with DasBlog

October 25, 2017
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So this Monday both Scott Hanselman and I planned to discuss some of the changes we have been making to DasBlog, but ...

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Refining the Idea of Diversity

October 22, 2017
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When we were on the school playground I always played the part of Lando Calrissian. I could never be Han Solo or Luke ...

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Home Studio Equipment (2017)

October 10, 2017
5 min read

I may have mentioned once or twice that I compose music in my spare time, it is one the most rewarding hobbies. Over ...

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Abandoning the Consumer space

October 02, 2017
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That Microsoft is an enterprise company is evident in its quarterly reports, its revenues are derived almost ...

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Razor Pages - An easier way to start web development

September 18, 2017
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For those of you old enough to remember Web Forms it represented a relatively straightforward way for drag and drop ...

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Finding the Process ID for your Application Pool

September 12, 2017
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At least a couple of times a month I am asking a developer to supply me a hang dump of some process that is not ...

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