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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
2 min read

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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ASP.NET 5 Razor Tag Helpers

July 16, 2015
2 min read

Tag Helpers allow server-side code to participate in the rendering of HTML elements in Razor files. In this regard they ...

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Google Photos Diversity Problem

July 11, 2015
7 min read

When I first heard about the automatic tagging of the Google Photos service I was completely unimpressed, as it is with ...

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.NET Tool Tip: Just Decompile

July 07, 2015
2 min read

Back in the day I was a huge fan of .NET Reflector, it was so well designed (and appropriately named) that for a long ...

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Preparing for Windows 10

July 06, 2015
5 min read

As the tech support for my immediate, and extended family I am expected to be prepared with answers when strange or ...

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CSS Tips: Calc() Function

July 03, 2015
1 min read

I am writing much less HTML/CSS these days and, coincidentally, there has been a lot written about the ascendency of ...

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