TL;DR Check out a dinky little Exception Message Beautifier site I threw together so you can quickly format .net exception messages and easily see the StackTrace. Go to the site: CLICK HERE Background Over the years, I?ve worked on projects where application exceptions were saved to a SQL database. When querying the logs […]
Read MoreHave you ever arrived at work and sat down, not exactly sure what you were working on the day before? You spend some time going through emails. Start looking at your codebase, maybe the last couple commits you made trying to get back into the mental groove you were in the day before. There is […]
Read MoreI recently published a little sample project up in the ToTypeScriptD github organization that walks through converting a new Windows 8 WinJS application to TypeScript. It’s intended to show some of the basic first steps it takes to convert a project over to TypeScript and also how you can leverage ToTypeScriptD to help automatically generate […]
Read MoreNot only did the XBone RTM this week, but the call for papers for Agile 2014 opened. This year my friend K. Scott Allen and I are fortunate enough to be the chairs for the Development Practices and Craftsmanship track. And that means I am really hoping to hear from this community in the submissions […]
Read MoreIf you’re unfamiliar with TypeScript, I’d highly recommend checking it out. It’s my new preferred way to write JavaScript based applications. If you write an application in TypeScript and need to interact with an external set of either JavaScript or C++/CX dependencies then you will quickly find that you are going to be mucking with […]
Read MoreFor 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 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 […]
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