Internships for big companies like Microsoft are replete with lore and not a few jokes. They are also highly sought after, competitive, and worth every minute of the experience they offer. Never having done an internship myself, I never really understood that. This summer, I have had the opportunity to work with several Microsoft interns […]
Read MoreEarlier this week I accidentally stumbled on archive.org where they are hosting an extensive backlog of old issues of Byte magazine. This magazine was an American microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s (and well before my time). I’ve been skimming through a couple of these old magazines, and I got […]
Read MoreA while ago, I was thinking about which programming language I wanted to learn next. At first I was doubting between Scala, Ruby or perhaps Clojure. But I couldn’t really make up my mind. So I decided to pick up Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. This way I was able to take a small bite […]
Read MoreTurns out, Visual Studio sees the first red box as a legit code reference as shown in red box # 2. Is that what you would expect, Internet?
Read MoreI’m throwing this out there since I couldn’t find much on this specific problem. #payingItForward Problem I struggled getting the git command line to authenticate with Git Team Foundation Service online. My current environment is Windows 8, msysgit, with the git-credential-winstore tool installed. (Love that credential tool) When I first tried to (push, fetch, or […]
Read MoreI recently wrote this article for Visual Studio Magazine’s Agile/Scrum column and it just went to press. In this article, So Long and Thanks for all the Manifestos, I make a case for a new standard for agile software delivery. Simply put, we are now standing on the shoulders of giants like the Agile Manifesto […]
Read MoreI am delighted to announce that I can finally talk about the feature our team has been building for the next version of Visual Studio. Yesterday at TechEd North America, we announced the new Head Up Display capability in Visual Studio. This feature provides developers with an augmented view of code in which we try […]
Read MoreSo now that I have a custom game server connected to a message-based infrastructure, I need a way to send messages back and forth to other parts of the system. Messages going to and from the custom game server are transmitted as JSON given that the format is easy to work with, supported in all […]
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