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2013-12-26

TFS Anti-Patterns: Copying work items

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Over my years at Microsoft I have encountered what I'd like to call the work item copy anti pattern .
2013-12-19

Lunch Dictator or Tweeting from PHP

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A while back I needed a way to simply post tweets from PHP. To my disappointment most examples I found were about reading tweets or required...
2013-12-12

429 vs 503

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A while back I was involved in a discussion around using 429 instead of 503 in order to tell clients they should back off a little. And ther...
2013-12-05

Abstracting time

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Probably one of the most common tight couplings I see is a dependency on system time, i.e. using DateTime.Now or DateTime.UtcNow directly in...
2013-11-28

When in doubt - don't brick your hardware

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Being an Xfinity Home customer I've had two interesting experiences with their hardware. The user experience have been weird at best.
2013-11-21

Xbox One Launch Day

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So what is it like to launch Xbox One? Given that it started 3am local time when New Zeeland first launched it has been an interesting and l...
2013-11-14

Hiding email until you need to read it

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If you ever read a blog by a Microsoft employee before I'm sure you have read about how they struggle with the amount of email they rece...
2013-11-07

What you really need to know when authoring NuGet packages

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I have noticed that most articles on how to author NuGet packages focus on the practical part; which commands to run and how to setup your ...
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2013-10-31

My worst stand-up(s)

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Reading this story about the worst daily scrum ever made me think about my own experience. An both actually reminds me of what happened ...
2013-10-24

What is technical debt really about?

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When you think about the reasons for reducing technical debt; what do your think about?