My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Being a Program Manager feels more like Baseball

August 20, 2019
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I think my career as an engineer has had a mostly limited vision of success, by that I mean, if the customer hated what ...

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Nuances of the XmlConfigurationProvider

August 09, 2019
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The XmlConfigurationProvider loads configuration XML data from file and along with the ConfigurationBuilder. It really ...

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Create Interfaces with default implementations

July 30, 2019
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My favorite design improvement for C# 8 has to be the ability to add the default implementation of a method or property ...

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Microsoft hologram speaking Japanese

July 22, 2019
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I have been appropriately surprised by everything about the HoloLens experiment and last weeks keynote at the Microsoft ...

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Using Visual Studio for Crash Dump Debugging

July 15, 2019
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Memory dumps come in two flavors user mode dumps or kernel mode dumps. The user mode dumps is a snapshot of a process ...

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Open Source CLR Instrumentation Engine

July 01, 2019
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I am working with a bunch of really smart folks who have a ton of experience with profiling and diagnostics who have ...

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Time Travel Debugging on Visual Studio Toolbox

June 01, 2019
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I got the opportunity to join Robert Green on Visual Studio Toolbox last week, we got to talk about a new diagnostic ...

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Module vs Assembly

May 21, 2019
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Every day I am learning something new, if not new then I am fixing assumptions. For example I have for years used the ...

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Windows Terminal

May 17, 2019
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I thought when the Window’s console got transparency my life was complete. Well there is so much coming, I am genuinely ...

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