A TimePiece of C# and JavaScript
I put together a little project on Github, partially because I’ve been making headway learning the intricacies of JavaScript, and partly because I wanted something that would parse a string that...
View ArticleWhy Clean Code Seriously Matters!
The first example is some working code, that determines if a date value is a weekend day and returns true or false based on that. bool firstSecondNulls = false; var dayOfWeek = (DateTime)...
View ArticleSouth Sound .NET Users Group + AWS, Visual Studio, Toolkits, and Explosions!
If you live in or around the south sound region near Olympia, would like to hear about the AWS Toolkit and SDK for Visual Studio, come and check out the South Sound .NET Users Group on at Olympia...
View ArticleReasons to Love Refactoring with ReSharper
It started like this. string responseValue; if (null == vcapResponse) { responseValue = message; } else { responseValue = vcapResponse.Description; } return responseValue; …and after a few alt+enter...
View ArticleThor Project Opens Up, Building the Cloud Foundry Ecosystem with the Community
The Iron Foundry Team are big advocates of open source software. We write code across all sorts of languages, just like many of the development shops out there do. Sometimes we’re heavy on the .NET,...
View ArticleIntroducing Junction
Today I’ve officially kicked off a new project from my notebook of projects based around building a Riak admin, data manipulation, reporting and news tool for Windows 8. If you want to jump right to...
View ArticleIn-memory Orchestrate Local Development Database
I was talking with Tory Adams @BEZEI2K about working with Orchestrate‘s Services. We’re totally sold on what they offer and are looking forward to a lot of the technology that is in the works. The day...
View ArticleBack From Scandinavia, Back to Project Coding, Writing and Organizing
Scandinavian Viking. I just got back from Scandinavia (and Amsterdam). I went for a million reasons, mostly for the adventure of it. Visiting Stockholm, Copenhagen and Reykjavik I saw about a zillion...
View ArticleGetting Started with Swift, For NON-Apple Devs
This past weekend I attempted to get started with Swift coding. Since I have not been an Apple Developer for a while, it wasn’t immediately obvious how to get started. But once I fumbled around a few...
View ArticleTruly Excellent People and Coding Inspiration…
.NET Fringe took place this last week. It’s been a rather long time since my last actual conference that I actually got to really attend, meet people, and talk to people about all the different...
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