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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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Read more Code than you Write

August 03, 2015
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For a while now I have been advocating that junior engineers review every code submission, I mean all of them (of ...

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Windows 10 Tip: Fix Store Download Errors

July 30, 2015
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I love almost everything about the Windows 10 operating system, there are a few, shall we say, rough edges, but I ...

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Windows 10 Blank Screen Issue

July 19, 2015
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I have been an active member of the Windows 10 Tech Preview for a while now and I have installed it on any piece of ...

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Google Driven Development

July 18, 2015
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Google Driven Development (GDD)* is a term I recently coined** that describes the process by which some engineers ...

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