My software development related bloggings...mostly.
Getting my feet wet with Azure SQL tonight and I just created my first ever database on the platform. The first step was to create a new server instance since I did not yet have a hosting server. The second page of the creation prompts you to provide credentials for the new server. With no …
Whether you love your source control system or it drives you completely mad there’s no denying it’s one of the most important tools you have as a software developer. Over the years I’ve used several source control software packages, even going so far as to dabble with writing one …
Pre-Build # I left home for Build 2014 on the morning of April Fool’s Day after only a couple hours of sleep. I arrived at PDX around 09:00 with my flight to San Francisco scheduled to leave at 11:40. I got through security and settled in at the gate ready to read wile away the remaining …
The first version of Visual Studio I used heavily was VS 2003 and since then I’ve used every version typically installing them immediately upon RTM, sometimes even before. I’ve loved every version and each one has become progressively better IMO. Historically I’ve spent very little …
I’ve had my Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon for almost exactly a year now so I thought I post a quick follow-up to the original entry I posted last year. First, the keyboard. Within a matter of hours using the original keyboard the enter key started sticking. A new keyboard was ordered and installed …
I’ve been playing around with TypeScript for several weeks now and, overall, my early impressions are quite favorable. The typing system and its integration with Visual Studio are very nice and seem quite natural to me after working with C# for the last several years. I also like that it …
I spent two days last week sitting in on the online stream of ng-conf 2014 the first ever AngularJS conference. There was a ton of presentations and, as is always the case at these things, some were great and some were lacking. Overall I continue to be impressed with Angular and what it brings to …
Understand first, I’ve only been working with Angular in my free time over the last couple weeks. With that said I must admit I’m REALLY impressed! Very exciting framework. I dove into Knockout quite extensively a while back and I have high regard for that framework. However, I’m …
I have a Web API project which leverages an SQL database through Entity Framework. Pretty standard Microsoft technology stacks I’ve been using for years. When using EF I’ve historically disabled lazy loading and proxy generation due to lack of need for those features. This project I left …
While working on the MVC implementation for my FitTrack application I googled “cottage cheese” to cross reference a menu item entry. This is what I got. That search was essentially the death of my FitTrack application. Notice the variants of cottage cheese you get if you select the drop …