For readers of this blog, it is not news that my family uses agile-inspired practices to manage our responsibilities and commitments to each other. Plenty of other families are doing the same, and creating their families as learning organizations. Many people tell me, ?We?ve been doing things like that in our family, too!? And yet, […]
Read MoreI was implementing a custom writable stream in Node.js the other day when I ran into this issue where I wanted to know whether more data was coming or that we were actually done writing stuff. When looking at the recently revised API for stream implementers, the only thing that gets mentioned in the docs […]
Read MoreOne year ago I moved from Boise, Idaho, to Redmond, Washington, to work for Microsoft. At the time of our move, I owned a stretch-cab 1995 Ford F-250 four-wheel-drive pickup. That wasn’t going to work in the traffic of suburban Seattle, and I don’t foresee pulling a horse trailer here (or my buddy out of […]
Read MoreThis past week I gave a talk on TypeScript which was fun and well received. If you have any interest in the slides they are hosted up on GitHub http://staxmanade.github.io/TypeScriptPresentation/#/1 Or if you just want to look at the talk in MarkDown https://github.com/staxmanade/TypeScriptPresentation/blob/master/TypeScriptPresentation.md The markdown page is useful for a quick lookup on syntax if […]
Read MoreChristian Hassa over at TechTalk was good enough to send me an email recently with some videos showing new features they’ve released into SpecRun, their integration test runner for SpecFlow. SpecRun Overview SpecRun TFS integration They’ve solved some problems around TFS build integration for SpecFlow that simply makes ATDD scenario execution a seamless build […]
Read MoreSoon after I started using Node.js, I ran into the phenomenon of multiple nested callbacks that create some kind of horizontal tower effect. The solution I came up with in order to improve the readability of my code was using a library called step, as described in this blog post that I wrote at that […]
Read MoreI?ve started noticing more details of UX design in the software I use on a daily basis. Recently I noted an example of reducing a two-click flow to a one-click flow. Note the blue button on my Google email. Before this Send+ button existed, only Send appeared. I would hit Send on the reply, then […]
Read MoreIf you have pulled the Visual Studio 2013 Preview, you have seen that you are prompted for a Microsoft ID login (formerly Live ID) upon first launch of Visual Studio. This is because Visual Studio is now storing my preferences in the cloud, under my Microsoft account. This feature takes a page from things like […]
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