My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

First pull request

August 27, 2020
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I love seeing first time pull requests on the DasBlog Core repo! I have just seen a couple of these this year and I ...

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How much memory does this object use?

August 20, 2020
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I saw a really intriguing request from a customer who was trying to find someway to look at Offset or Size of an object ...

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Creating convincing bugs for your demo code

August 10, 2020
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Have you ever seen a killer demo that fizzles at the end because the root cause is a contrived Thread.Wait() or a ...

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wrk for benchmarking and testing

August 05, 2020
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If like me you installed a Linux Distro on Windows 10 and then just did nothing with it, it would behoove us to ...

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POWERful Devs Opening Keynote

July 21, 2020
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Scott Guthrie (EVP, who previously owned ASP.NET) and Maria Naggaga (who currently owns ASP.NET) discuss the future of ...

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Hitting breakpoints steals focus

July 13, 2020
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There are a lot of useful features in Visual Studio, but you often do not know what you do not know. For example, one ...

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Evenly distributed talent

July 09, 2020
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Interviewing developers and PMs is incredibly hard, we know this, in fact I have looked back at several blog post I ...

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Microsoft Flow for Bloggers

July 06, 2020
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I started using IFTT some years ago to ensure that whenever I created a new blog post I would automatically send a ...

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Azure K8S commands

July 02, 2020
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So to continue my exercise of archiving commands I wanted to turn my attention to Azure Kubernetes (AKS).  Again, this ...

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