My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Any Sufficiently Advanced Engineer

March 09, 2016
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Rejoining Fiserv has thus far been fantastic! I elected to embed in a department more deeply concerned with the design, ...

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PerfMon Tip: Memory Analysis for Services

March 01, 2016
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I am doing a lot of work with clients and internal teams that are running software services for weeks and even months ...

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Cable Cutters–Dealing with Internet Data Caps

February 26, 2016
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So I recently switched my internet provider in order to get an attractive monthly deal only to realize the day after ...

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Integrating Facebook Comments with dasBlog

February 19, 2016
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I recently committed changes to dasBlog that would allow Disqus comments to work on individual posts and on main the ...

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Encryption should protect everybody from everybody

February 17, 2016
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A company invested in securing client data should begin with prohibiting internal access to that data, consider the ...

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Integrating Disqus with dasBlog

February 15, 2016
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I got a ping this weekend from a dasBlog user who was attempting to integrate Disqus with dasBlog. Disqus, for the ...

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Hearing a ripple in space time

February 12, 2016
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From the New York Times: A team of scientists announced on Thursday that they had heard and recorded the sound of two ...

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One Hard Thing in Software Engineering

February 02, 2016
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One of my favorite quotes in computer science lore is as follows: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: ...

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.NET Framework Reference Source

January 31, 2016
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Last week I needed to take a quick peek at some of the methods involved in the generation of JavaScript AJAX proxy ...

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