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17 Jul
2012

Outliers – The Story of Success

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A couple of weeks ago, I digested the audio version of Outliers – The Story of Success, written by Malcolm Gladwell. In this book, the author tells the story of a couple well-known and also lesser-known individuals that are considered to be successful. But what’s particularly interesting about this book, is the analysis the author […]

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4 Jul
2012

Introduction to NancyFX on Pluralsight

Earlier this week, Pluralsight published my first course, Introduction to Nancy. The Nancy framework, or NancyFX for short, is a web framework started by fellow Elegant Coder Andreas?H?kansson?(@thecodejunkie).?I feel very fortunate to have had?Andreas and Steven Robbins?(@grumpydev)?available to provide feedback on the course content. Some may wonder why I chose to create a NancyFX course… […]

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12 Jun
2012

My Developers Life – The Importance of Physical Exercise

In the previous blog post, I discussed the importance of getting enough sleep every single night. For this post I want to emphasize the importance of physical exercise. I’m writing these words after having run approximately 15 kilometers. This I do three times a week, every week, throughout the whole year with only a few […]

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3 Jun
2012

SubSpec

Just a quick note to mention a new tool Peter Provost turned me onto yesterday. I am digging SubSpec. It’s another Context/Spec, BDD-ish tool that sits in the  middle somewhere between executable specs and a low-level AAA simple assert model. It’s appropriate anywhere Machine Specification would be appropriate, for example. The code below also uses […]

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1 Jun
2012

Building IG Outlook Part 4 – Creating Custom Region Adapters

This is the fourth video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook.  In this video we create custom region adapters for the Infragistics XamRibbon and XamOutlookBar controls that are defined as regions in our application’s shell. The code you really care about are the two […]

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