My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Visiting my Local Microsoft Store

September 16, 2015
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Going to gadget stores these days is a real crapshoot, if you are really fortunate you get someone who is at least ...

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Surface was a Trojan Horse all along

September 14, 2015
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When considering the direction of personal computing devices I was wondering why Mac hardware designs were stubbornly ...

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Visual Studio 2015 Tips: Exceptions & Break Points

August 28, 2015
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Maintaining and debugging code can be a difficult task even at the best of times, I have witnessed otherwise well ...

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Windows 10 Tip: Keyboard Shortcuts

August 25, 2015
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I think it would fair to say that most of the folks downloading and installing Windows 10 are doing so on non-tablet ...

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Visual Studio 2015 Tip: Light Bulb and Code Analysis

August 24, 2015
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The Rosalyn Project was more than just about incremental improvements to C# language features, it was about rewriting ...

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Visual Studio 2015 Tip: Debugging LINQ Queries

August 20, 2015
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At my new employer we access all our database objects via NHibernate, which is an ORM product I am starting to fall in ...

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Visual Studio 2015 Tip: Window Layout

August 18, 2015
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There have been quite a few changes to Visual Studio 2015 and over the next few weeks I wanted to take a quick look at ...

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Quantifying Artistic Creativity

August 14, 2015
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I was reading a fascinating paper from the Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Rutgers University, they are ...

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Visual Studio – Herald of Microsoft

August 07, 2015
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In the world of Marvel Comics Silver Surfer is a metallic skinned humanoid who travels the universe seeking out new ...

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