Last weekend I participated in a Windows 8 hackathon. In 24 hours of coding I had an app created and submitted to the App Store for certification. 24 hours to create an app? I’ll share details about the app I created in a future post. For now, I have since removed my app from the […]
Read MoreI recently started playing with TypeScript on an asp.net MVC web application. We’re leveraging some third party js libraries and found the type definition files over at DefinitelyTyped a huge help when dealing with libraries not originally written in TypeScript. The first thing I tried to do was add them via NuGet and when I […]
Read MoreIt’s true. I’m a Sublime Text addict. It’s by far my favorite development tool. End of story! Just to illustrate, earlier this week, a member of our development team asked how to quickly remove all empty lines from a very large text file. I quickly came up with the following: Press CTRL-F. Enable regular expressions […]
Read MoreIf you use git and leverage the rebase command, you’ve probably run across a merge issue during the rebase and if you?ve ever felt like, ?man, I wish I had a ?do-over?. If you?re still in the middle of a rebase it’s easy to start over: git rebase –abort But let’s say you started with […]
Read MoreSince I have done this 3 times in the last few days and had to look it up each time, I will record it here for posterity. Need to delete a Team Project you created on VisualStudio.com? You can kill it just like you can kill a Team Project on a local TFS instance. Works […]
Read MoreI created an introductory presentation on PowerShell a while back and posted it on my GitHub. I first gave the presentation at the NNSDG and decided to also submit it as a talk to the Boise Code Camp this year. (Looks like I’ll be going ? track me down @staxmanade if you?d like to say […]
Read MoreDo any of you have twitch words? Words that set you off? If someone says that particular word, you go into attach mode. I do. For me, that word is “always”. Case in point, if you are writing a user story use the word “always”, I’ll make sure you have a bad time. I wont […]
Read MoreElegant Code readers know I have used agile practices with my kids and family for years now. I even write and speak about it occasionally. Here are some past articles on the subject, and one podcast. Fast forward to yesterday?s article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, ?Run Your Family Like a Business? by Bruce […]
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