My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Helping team members deal with Imposter Syndrome

January 12, 2022
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I have been thinking about Imposter Syndrome quite a bit lately and how it can impact confidence and I have come to a ...

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Finding our new normal

January 04, 2022
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GitHub's releases a yearly state of the Octoverse report that examines the ways developers are coding, collaborating ...

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The User Old Heap (UOH)

December 16, 2021
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Back with the release of .NET 5 a new kind of heap was added to runtime called the Pinned Object Heap (POH). Pinning ...

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Fixing sync over async issues in .NET

December 11, 2021
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I talk a lot about antipatterns and how to detect and avoid them, I have specifically taken to referring to ...

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Opening massive memory dumps with Visual Studio

November 30, 2021
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One of the key goals for Visual Studio was to fully embrace the scalability of the 64-bit platform. For most developers ...

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Structuring discussions for Engineers and PMs

November 16, 2021
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One of the many skills of engineers bring to bear is the ability to step into a wholly new problem space and start ...

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Fixing Error NETSDK1152 after upgrading to .NET 6

November 09, 2021
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So my upgrade of DasBlog Core to .NET 6 was so smooth, I still think this is fairly cool given much of this code was ...

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Diagnostics tools for App Service on Linux

November 01, 2021
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If you have been a fan of App Services you will noticed a gap in the diagnostics story when comparing Windows and ...

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Visual Studio 2022 Launch Event

October 19, 2021
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When I joined Microsoft just about 3 years ago I just missed the prior release of Visual Studio 2019 and all the prep ...

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