Running an Azure Cloud Service without an Emulator
Running and debugging complex code in an Azure deployment environment frequently requires implies a long turn around time when running on the Azure fabric. Building,... Read more
27 March 2015
Jekyll Post Generator in Ruby
A while ago, I blogged a quick console application to create a blog post outline, given a set of command line options. That was in... Read more
15 March 2015
Travis supports C# CI
It’s great news that my favourite cloud CI service, Travis CI now supports C# directly. Read more
25 February 2015
Sketchnoting Challenge
The Sketchnote Army website has been running a challenge to create a sketchnote to capture a snippet of time from episode #219 of the Mac... Read more
15 February 2015
Cory Doctorow at Hieroglyph
A text heavy sketchnote this time from a speech by Cory Doctorow at Hieroglyph on the theme of computers and how they can be turned... Read more
13 January 2015
Updating web.config Settings with MsBuild
I’ve slightly stolen this technique from Sayed I. Hashimi and this blog post. Read more
12 January 2015
Refreshing Folder Contents
The traditional method of copying content from one folder to another is fairly straightforward: Read more
12 January 2015
Building Github Pages in OSX Yosemite
As the proud owner of a shiny new Macbook running Yosemite, I’m now in the process of experimenting with doing a lot of stuff in... Read more
07 January 2015
Sketchnotes from ACE! 2014
A few months back I was lucky enough to be accepted by Paul Klipp as one of the people to produce a sketchnote of a... Read more
15 December 2014
Breaking code dependencies with inplace refactoring
There’s a common symptom of monolithic applications that I see fairly frequently. First, a developer writes a simple little program to solve a simple little... Read more
01 December 2014
Muda Muri Mura, so what?
Explaining what these three variations on waste were in the Toyota Production System, the names are similar enough to the western software developer’s ear but... Read more
24 November 2014
The (Richard) Dreyfuss Model of Skill Acquisition
A dreadful pun on the names of Hubert and Stuart Drefus and Richard Dreyfuss, star of one of my wife’s favorite films. Read more
14 November 2014
Doctorow's Three Laws
This illustration is based on a composite of a number of different talks given by Cory on the general theme of The Coming War on... Read more
14 November 2014
Sketchnoting Lean Concepts
Continuing on with the quest to find many and varied things to sketchnote, this is from Dan Brown’s talk at London Lean Kanban Day 2013.... Read more
13 November 2014
Testing ItemGroups for Content
If you are writing MsBuild scripts that are expected to work consistently in a number of different environments it quickly becomes clear that encoding pre-requisites... Read more
12 November 2014
Super-Technical Sketchnoting
After I posted some of my sketchnotes from DDD North I got some very nice feedback from people on Twitter. One conversation with Richard Dalton... Read more
03 November 2014
Final sketchnote from DDDNorth 2014
The third and final sketchnote (but actually from the first session of the day) from the Developer Developer Developer North 2014 conference. Read more
27 October 2014
Sketchnote 2 from DDDNorth 2014
Here’s another sketchnote from the Developer Developer Developer North 2014 conference. Read more
23 October 2014
Sketchnote from DDDNorth 2014
I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Developer Developer Developer North 2014 conference in Leeds this past weekend. Read more
22 October 2014
Javascript Message in a Bottle
Another from the department of uses-the-syntax-so-infrequentyly-I-nearly-always-forget. Read more
21 October 2014
Extracting Slide Images from a Pdf
Being a programmer, I’m often tempted to crack open a compiler when faced with a task that involves anything to do with computers. Read more
01 October 2014
I'm in the Sketchnote Workbook!
Or rather, some of my work is :) Exciting news from Mike Rohde - he’s including one of my sketchnotes in his new book, the... Read more
30 September 2014
MsBuild Task Project on Github
As if there weren’t enough MsBuild Task libraries already, I’ve added another. I needed a simple static link checker that would run as part of... Read more
24 September 2014
Windows Installers for the Lazy
If you’ve ever installed any software for Windows using an installer wizard, you will no doubt have experienced the mild annoyance of filling in ticked... Read more
10 September 2014
Management 3.0 Workout
02 September 2014