My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

What has changed?

May 29, 2020
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I am thinking about change today, as in, what in this country has changed in a positive way for people of African ...

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How everyday devs can influence Visual Studio

May 26, 2020
4 min read

I have been working on the Microsoft stack for almost 20 years, and now directly at Microsoft for over a year, and one ...

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Reload your ASP.NET config data when the files changes

May 21, 2020
3 min read

One of the biggest flaws I wanted to correct with DasBlog Core was that if you updated the underlying configuration ...

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Feature Inception

May 16, 2020
2 min read

I just offloaded a bunch of new ideas and concepts onto my engineering team in the hope of enabling some new features ...

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Free Certs for Azure App Services

May 12, 2020
1 min read

So I have been using Azure App Services for about a year now and it is incredibly versatile you get to select the exact ...

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Heap Views in Visual Studio

May 06, 2020
5 min read

So I love the idea that developers should focus on the abstraction layer that makes them productive and happy, even if ...

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Build 2020 is Happening!

May 01, 2020
3 min read

This year Build is going to be free and open to everyone! It will be 48 hours straight of developer content and live ...

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Finalization Queue Tips

April 24, 2020
4 min read

I have talked about general memory management in .NET a whole bunch on this blog but I have been kicking around some ...

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Decompilation improvements for Visual Studio

April 14, 2020
2 min read

When we released our decompilation scenario with Visual Studio 16.5 it served as the perfect platform to unlock more ...

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