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26 Apr

2018

Architecting Azure

By: David Starr Category:Azure

I recently rejoined Microsoft, this time as an architect on the Industry Experiences team. Our charter is to help companies implement solutions on Azure. We work with specific industry verticals like manufacturing (IoT), healthcare, insurance, financial services, etc. We provide several services including writing very specific industry use cases of Azure within the industries and […]

6 Mar

2018

CRUD Operations Using Azure Cosmos DB

By: David Starr Category:Code3 Comments

When I am learning something new, I start from the genuine basics and build up from there. Azure Cosmos DB is no different and as someone just starting out with Azure, I thought it best to start with one of the most fundamental of services: CRUD operations on data. Admittedly, I may write bad code along […]

6 Feb

2018

The Long Distance Product Owner

By: David Starr Category:AgileTag: Agile, collaboration, Scrum:

I’m often asked questions I decide to answer on my blog. After all, if one person has the question, so do others. Here is the question we’re answering today. How can we make it work when the Product Owner and Development Team are 12 time zones apart? Answers People Don’t Like Well, there are a few […]

4 Jan

2018

Functional vs. Stateful React.js Components

By: David Starr Category:Code3 Comments

Overview For those just getting started with React.js, it’s fairly common (in ES6 anyway) to see how to construct a React Component class and build your component from that class. It turns out we can also build React components as simple functions that return JSX. Simple functional components get props injected just as a class […]

13 Dec

2017

The React.js Component Lifecycle

By: David Starr Category:Code1 Comment

I’ve been working in React for awhile now and I wrote a little app to solidify the component lifecycle in my own mind. None of this will be a surprise if you’ve spent much time in React yourself. First, I created a simple component and implemented all the lifecycle components and just had them print […]

6 Oct

2017

Matt at VSLive!

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:1 Comment

Matt is at VSLive! and is blogging on the sessions. Whidbey, Avalon, etc. What will they think of next?

18 Sep

2017

MVP for Android Apps

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Android, Design Patterns:1 Comment

Model View Presenter for Android Apps

11 Sep

2017

One Thing DevOps Does to Scrum Teams

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Agile, devops, Scrum:3 Comments

Scrum teams often struggle with how to manage work in their team after moving to a DevOps model. This post poses some scenarios and answers to that challenge.