I stumbled across the novels of Daniel Suarez a few weeks ago via an impulse spend of an Audible credit. I am now well into his latest novel and am looking forward to whatever he’s working on now. His first two novels are a two-part story: Daemon, and Freedom™. I have totally dug them, especially [...]
I literally cried this morning as I scanned these posts. Note: Don’t have a drink in hand or mouth when reading these. Enjoy: http://martinvalasek.com/blog/pictures-from-a-developers-life http://martinvalasek.com/blog/pictures-from-a-developers-life-part-2 http://martinvalasek.com/blog/pictures-from-a-developers-life-part-3 If you’re a git user. http://wheningit.tumblr.com/
Today I was pleased to learn Brian’s Sizer App is still out there and still works, even with Windows 8. Just install it and right-click to snap a window to a specific size. This tool was indispensible to me when deving for web and I find myself needing it again these days in building mockups. [...]
Previously I discussed how to write a Server which uses a persistent WebSocket Client, using the Netty framework to make things go. Netty is configured through establishing a Channel Pipeline, which is great if you need a very flexible system for handling network input and output. For most projects however, this sort of power can [...]
Some time ago I was looking for a validation library/module for use in a small Express application that I was writing at the time. I couldn’t find anything that suited my taste so I decided to write one myself just for kicks. The goal was learning how to publish a module to npm and making [...]
I’ve been working on a system involving connecting custom game servers to a larger, message based and multi-tenant infrastructure. The custom game server I was writing requires a persistent connection to the larger system, since messages originate from all directions (from/to client, from other servers, from the infrastructure, from thin air…). And while the code [...]
This was a fun talk from the 2013 ALM Summit, back in January. I didn’t even know it was online until someone tweeted it . The ideas expressed here are around the pragmatism of using estimation as a technique, but not getting lost in the weeds. In other words, admit that we need some process [...]
My team at Microsoft is responsible for the My Work feature in Visual Studio Ultimate. The My Work feature focuses a developer’s immediate work in a single, actionable view. My Work presents TFS Work Items assigned to me in a view that allows quick and easy integration with checking in code. This aims to reduce [...]
Inheritance in JavaScript has been the topic of many discussions in the past and will continue to be the source of future debates and arguments. While we do value composition over inheritance, we don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater either. So, from time to time, we run into these cases where [...]
While working on a little WinRT app I recently spent WAY too much time trying to figure out why I was getting the following exception System.UnauthorizedAccessException was unhandled by user code HResult=-2147024891 Message=Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) Source=Windows.UI StackTrace: at Windows.UI.Text.ITextDocument.SetText(TextSetOptions options, String value) when all I [...]
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