Random Ramblings
There are lots of great articles on how to know your tools to be a better programmer. I thought I’d chip in give and give 10 tricks on how to be a good Windows user and hence also a better developer. These tricks are very simple and have been part of Windows for a while …
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Recently I have had the pleasure of training a couple of colleagues in the wonders of programming. At work we use C# for most of our applications so naturally I started preparing my material in C#. I did not get very far before it occurred to me: This is going to be a long haul… …
Introduction If there is one thing that Team Foundation Service (TFS) does really well, it is the use of work items. A work item can be a lot of different things. For example, it can be a bug, a task, a user story, an epic, or a test case. It can even be a request …
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At work we are running on premise Team Foundation Service 2015 (yeah, I know, right?). We have been struggling a bit to build C# 7.0 code on it. We installed Visual Studio 2017 on the build machine but it seemed that no matter what we did, we were only able to choose between “Visual Studio …
The world is evolving around software. Software controls everything we do from toasting bread to sending people into space. Software enables people and companies. It is in fact really hard to think of a job or a task that does not include software in some way, at least in the Western hemisphere. That puts us, …
Example code on Github. This is the second part in my small series on ASP.NET Core and the coolest of the cool JavaScript libraries out there, except that they are probably already outdated by the time I finish writing this. In part I we took a look on how to install npm and webpack into …
Example code on Github. Things have been moving so fast in the last couple of years when it comes to web development. The days of page refreshes on web sites are long gone. The youngsters and hipsters want ajax, animations, spinners, and what not. The JavaScript world has exploded with cool libraries and what is …
The USAF is testing autonomous wingmen fighter jets. While I am a sucker for all things fighter jet, especially the F16 Falcon, this is both very fascinating and very unsettling. Photo via Lockheed Martin.
When you are a type 1 diabetic you have to put with a lot of “expert” advice. Everybody seems to have an opinion on why you have diabetes and how you should treat it. I put together a list of the top 5 annoying comments (the actual list seems endless): Number 5: “Diabetics can eat …
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