Stitches Out Week
Bandages off. A little sore and swollen. Time to get strong 💪.
206 posts spanning 2008 to 2019
Bandages off. A little sore and swollen. Time to get strong 💪.
Recovery update - bandages are off, feeling a bit sore and swollen but ready to get back to building strength.
Meniscus fixed. On the road to recovery.
How is it that I have so many messages to go through after the holiday? Everyone says this place is a ghost town… the...
Soccer Sunday
Time to do a clean install of macOS toady. Can’t login anymore.. just a black screen.
Pulled out some Protest the Hero this morning to fix all the things for arm64e!
Your talent is your greatest nemesis when it comes to your mindset. You have to edit your behavior and work. Talent o...
RMBF. Resting mouth breather face.
On the way home from Whistler and the girls wanted to stop at Bob’s Burgers because you know… Bob’s Burgers. They are...
Everybody wants to be number one. I have never talked to anyone and said “do you want to be number 3?” and get a “Yes...
The greatest emotional pendulum swing in 30 seconds. Hey coach, we just needed more room to throw the ball..
Perhaps this life is not my true life. This world not my true home. But she was. She always will be.
It wasn’t over. It still isn’t over.
I can’t get this out of my head today “The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know wether they’ll miss y...
Watching Fahrenheit 451 and the strong correlation to today makes me sad. It makes me sad for all the books they have...
Leaving this here for later… might be interesting to play with and see if it helps.
Even simple enough for me.
Sunday is recovery day. Why does Monday always feel like a grind?
Post workout coffee is the best. Especially after bike, burpees, power snatch and toe to bars.
Running UI tests is the new compiling… time to take a walk.
Mob Programming: How We Stumbled Upon and Learned to Love It
I might have to make a call today.
[Creating a Culture of Consistency]](https://naildrivin5.com/blog/2018/05/06/creating-a-culture-of-consistency.html):
The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace
Don’t let them take you out if they think you are trash.
Today’s mission if you accept it:
My creed. Learn it, love it, live it:
Being a good team mate should be the first requirement for any developer that is working on a team.
You know it’s a fun job, but still a job itunes.apple.com
I am not accident prone, I am a licensed gravity tester.
Music shifts your perspective… helps you see things differently. I love music.
Happy Easter!
Burpees for days
Sitting here watching Fringe and forgot that Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther) was in the episode Subject 9.
Cousins and coffee.
Time to watch all the kids play. Love hearing everyone from elementary to high school.
I don’t like to talk much about politics (although this shouldn’t be political): I just don’t understand how so many ...
Days like these the phrase “Life is a rough sport” really rings true.
After living in the Northwest for many years, you would think I was used to the grey and rainy days. Nope… hate them.
I will no longer refer to it as ‘My Calendar’ and now refer to it as ‘My Tetris Board’.
Sitting here watching the College Football Playoffs, I hear 21rst Century Schizoid Man being played by one of the ban...
Sending out my Apple Watch for repair. Mic not working. Going to miss my activity streak and badges :(.
What I learned on this trip: sleeping on an air mattress is air at night, quicksand in the morning.
Sitting here in Galveston, TX thinking about all my people in the snow in Seattle. Cold and grey yet a great Christmas.
Merry Christmas you filthy animals!
I wonder if this Domino’s pizza insurance thing has a clause for the 5 second rule.
Holiday traveling is always interesting. Flights overbooked and offering 400 US to change. I wonder how many times yo...
Really wish people crossing the street in the morning did not were all black in the rain. The only thing I could see ...
I have been sitting on this for a while. After starting back at Microsoft, I work on HockeyApp which includes the Hoc...
Spent time last night fixing UWP symbolication issues in HockeyApp. Needs a little more love but things are working a...
FaceID is awesome. TouchID is beastly… no longer can live like an animal.
Ordered my iPhone X. Took me a while because I was in San Fransico where the caching for the store was bad because e...
Swift and ReactiveCocoa seem like a perfect fit. Swift is designed with first-class functions and a succinct closu...
CodeLens Team Indicators - Processing Pipeline - Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management - Site Home - MSDN Blogs:
Expanding User-Defined Runtime Attributes in Xcode:
If you every wanted to know what I do everyday… this is it:
Code Lens for Git in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Update 3
For the last several months I have been working on an extension with Cloud Foundry V2 that allows users to deploy Win...
Dream Engine Blog:
XP is the Mac of Agile:
Useful Xcode Build Phases - Matthew Morey:
ParisLemon — What A Difference Six Years Makes…:
Since I am leaving Microsoft I decided to reset my Surface Pro to remove everything and start over. I had moved the r...
This is great advise…. even when it comes to software.
Anatomy Of A Good Commit Message
[A perspective: developers vs Microsoft ReactOS Project](http://www.reactos.org/node/637): ...
Every year I say I am going to WWDC and every year it passes and I say “Next year for sure.”. This year I decided it...
A great list of potential problems with Objective-C code that goes beyond stylistic preferences to focus on objective...
Working on a Mac / iOS projects, I have been trying to come up with an easy way to bump versions when it goes out the...
Jonathan Sterling – Typed Collections with Self Types in Objective-C:
In our Hilo project we wrote TDD with lots of unit tests. The one thing we noticed is there were no good way to run t...
Overcoming Customer Inertia:
Simply Writing Tests Is Not Test Driven Development:
The patterns & practices Symposium 2013 is scheduled for January 15 – 17, on campus in Redmond. This is a great o...
My last hurrah at patterns & practices was the C++ Windows 8 app Hilo. It made it into the Windows SDK. It is ama...
One of the things I love about working in Visual Studio is the now we are shipping on a much more timely cadence. We ...
Sad to see this… another friend leaves the mothership: Leaving Microsoft.
Microsoft Developer’s First Flight:
One of the things my team worked on for Visual Studio 2012 is the Video feature. The idea is to give you a good intro...
Why can’t we have this one back! This one rocked!
Agile for Startups:
This is cool stuff. If you have your own types and want to extend the debugger… this is for you. (Or if you are just ...
Oh happy days! Every principal is derived from ClaimsPrincipal in .NET 4.5. This makes all the work on the book we di...
It must be that time of year. I have been at patterns & practices for a couple of years again and it has been awe...
I have been really waiting for this one. With release 3.7.13 we get support for WinRT and building your Windows Store...
This is so cool!
I am getting old. I really like Visual Studio, but I am not a fan of the new all caps mode in the menu bar. If you w...
I guess the cat is out of the bag or at least it is going to be so here is the post from Bob:
Agreeing with Peter Provost's take on unit testing private methods - don't do it. Focus on testing public interfaces ...
Last night we made another Hilo drop. This is the latest greatest code and tests. We are getting close and the code i...
Matt Gemmell is an awesome developer and has written a great guide for Api Design Rules for iOS and OS X. I would arg...
Love the RSA Networks! The Power of Networks
I have long been a fan of Test Driven Development (TDD). I have used all kinds of frameworks for doing my tests and f...
Disable Home Button or Kiosk Mode
Jason Zander’s blog post on Unit Testing mentioned our Hilo project doing unit testing for Metro Applications in C++.
We are making heavy use of the Parallel Programming Library in Native Code. I really love this. After our PPL books f...
We have done some major work on Hilo to get things in better shape. Right now we are waiting on the next release of W...
I am not a huge fan of the Windows Phone. It is a personal taste. I am not that into Metro. I keep seeing these thing...
Silicon is eventually going to give up the ghost on how fast we can go.
There was a question on stackoverflow on how to write an iOS app purely in C. Of course, anything is possible given t...
Really cool post on Windows Azure Queues. This is something that would be easy to replace in our guidance on Windows ...
You are using Continuous Integration, Unit Tests and Code Coverage aren’t you? If not, shame on you.
The original Hilo is a C++ application for Windows 7 using Win 32 and Direct X. Now with the introduction of Windows ...
I’ll be there!
So many great things in here.. you have to watch it.
I was reading Alex Homer’s blog this morning (shame on you if you are not reading it), and it got me thinking: Do I s...
It always takes a while for your project to go live on MSDN but it is alive… ALIVE! We really put a lot of effort in...
Thinktecture.IdentityModel.* on GitHub
It is also for Single Responsibility Principle.
The guys at thinktecture have come up with a cool way for you to have your own STS in your application that is simple...
This is the 3rd in our series of Windows Azure Guidance. This one is our release candidate and we should be done thi...
We use Style Cop to keep everyone honost on our projects. It make it easy and integrates pretty well with ReSharper....
Ben Scheirman has started NSScreencast, a great set of screen casts on Objective-C and iOS / Mac development. I reall...
Jorge Rowies does it again. If you saw / liked the ACS Fluent Interface post, you will love to read how you can do th...
If you have a Windows Azure deployment, you owe it to yourself to check out Unified Logging for Windows Azure. If yo...
SouthWorks team created a fluent API for configuring Windows Azure ACS, making setup much cleaner than our previous r...
With the iOS Windows Azure Toolkit, you can use the ready made Windows Azure Packages that use ACS or Membership to m...
My daughter was sucker punched on the bus after school.
Simon Guest posted a way to extract your Facebook information from the ACS token. Now there is nothing wrong with ho...
If you are interested in Claims Based Identity you have to check this out. I can’t recommend this enough. I am reall...
We have made some significant updates to the guidance. We have put everything into one solution with deep integration...
Windows Azure is a moving platform. When we first released these guides, the SDK was young and we decided we needed ...
Today I just pushed a new version of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS to github (tagged v1.3.0). These changes inclu...
A cool Windows Azure application that will tell you the latency between data centers. Check it out here.
We have been working on a new guide that is focusing on Hybrid Applications with Windows Azure. The focus is connecti...
I have been working on the iOS toolkit for Windows Azure lately. We are really close to another release (check out th...
Working on a Mac / iOS projects, I have been trying to come up with an easy way to bump versions when it goes out the...
Grigori and team have opened up voting on there Enterprise Library Windows Azure Integration Pack. Go vote to provide...
I have written quite a bit of articles on iOS and Mac applications using agile techniques (unit testing, continuous i...
If you really like straight forward simple feature examples, this is the place to get them. You can download them her...
A new Windows Azure end-to-end sample application that can be used locally, in Windows Azure or as a Hybrid applicati...
We are working on updates to our Developing Applications for the Cloud content. In the first version we used a featur...
We just finished our last bit of testing on these hands on labs. They are a great companion to the guide that we rele...
It was a long 2 weeks yet really fun. I had a great time in Atlanta and Slovenia and both conferences. I have posted...
We just released our Release Candidate for the book that should be out in the next month. This is the second version ...
We just posted another drop for the Claims Based Identity Guidance. This will be our last drop before we release. We...
I was working on updating the TailSpin application to use Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) this week and ra...
The source for this is available on github.
I really like Syntax Highlighter. I like when the code is put in a pre tag and looks like something from the IDE. I h...
I always love doing these online presentations. I posted the slides and a link to the recording for those that want t...
One of the things I wanted to do after getting comfortable with the iOS/Mac platform(s) was trying to take my “agile”...
As normal I am late to the party. We have been working hard on getting the Claims Identity Guide updated for a V2. Ou...
Tom Hollander called me the other day looking for some advice on deployment scripts for Windows Azure. Given that I h...
My friend Mitch Lacy has been working on a book and is looking for feedback. If you ever wanted a survival guide to s...
Ever wanted to change the world? You too could come and enjoy the fun we have every day. If you think you would like ...
We are making good headway on our new project. We have started converting our current scenarios over to ACS. Eugeni...
Over the past year we have shipped a few guides:
After all the work we have done to ship the last 3 guides, we decided to go the extra mile and create some Hands On L...
Yesterday we released our guidance on Windows Phone 7. This is a continuation of our Windows Azure Guidance that we ...
Grigori posted the new backlog for Enterprise Library for Silverlight (so many found memories of Enterprise Library)....
So I am back on the kick to get rid of cable. I don’t really watch anything except the cooking channel and the occas...
Ever since we have done Windows Azure Guidance, we have not had a story for securing the web config in the cloud. If...
3 screens and a cloud is alive. We have been working the past couple of months on a project that takes our Second Gu...
Grigori and team are looking for ideas to build an integration pack for Enterprise Library for Silverlight. If you ar...
Go get it while it is hot. Our second version of our Azure Guidance is available on the web. The book should be avail...
Update 8/17/2010
It took a lot longer to get out than we hoped, but it is finally here. Part 1 is live (at least the landing page). If...
Last week we were finalizing the production of Windows Azure Architecture Guidance Part 1, when we came across a prob...
Last week we started working on the code for part 2 of our Windows Azure Architecture Guidance. Eugenio has a great w...
Steve Marx has a great post on paging over data that uses the Storage Client Library shipped with previous versions o...
As posted by Ben Scheirman, I will be speaking at Alt.NET Houston on Windows Azure. I will be doing a workshop on Fri...
In Part 1 I discussed how you could use msbuild + PowerShell to deploy your Windows Azure projects. Another thing you...
One of the more mundane tasks when working with Azure is the deployment process. There are APIs that can help deploy ...
Before I came back to Microsoft I was working at Thuzi, a social media company. One of the things Thuzi does is creat...
We spent some time in our first few weeks of the project getting Enterprise Library 5 (Beta 2) working on Azure. The ...
After our first week, we have the baseline application that we will be converting to Azure in our first scenario. The...
The first thing I did to get started on our new Azure Guidance project is setup the environment. Since I always seem ...
It is time for Seattle Code Camp again. There are plenty of great talks and if you are in the area you should go vote...
This week we start working on our Azure Guidance project. Many customers are looking to move to Azure and need good g...
With the release of Enterprise Library 5.0 beta 1 (including Unity 2.0) I thought I would give a (somewhat) brief his...
In May it will be 2 years that I have been in the Sunshine State (Florida). I am going back to Seattle and Microsoft ...
I am always amazed when people look at me weird when I mention Technical Debt. I thought this was a universal underst...
I have been playing around with MonoTouch trying to figure out if I liked the new approach to building Cocoa Touch ap...
Last week I gave a talk at the Orlando .NET User Group on Practical Software Craftsmanship - 12 Practices to be a Bet...
I use OmniFocus on my phone and laptop to keep myself organized. I have had to look this up a couple of times so I th...
As of September 11th the Mouse (Disney) and I are parting ways. It was a good ride just not the place for me. It was ...
A while back I wrote a post about why singletons are evil. I still agree with that statement, yet after my comment on...
Drew and I were having fun getting NHibernate working with WCF and Unity. I had built upon my brethren Jimmy’s code f...
After many long nights and to much Starbuck’s coffee, Kevin and I have finally done it. The waiting game is over and ...
Given the current economy and the housing market here in Florida, we have been talking a lot about renting versus own...
“There’s something very important I forgot to tell you. What? Don’t cross the streams. Why? It would be bad. I’m f...
Lately I have been trying to teach people TDD and running into the usual suspects of misconceptions. I decided that m...
Wanted to give a big shout out to the guys putting on this event. Scott, Sean, the guys from Blue Spire (along with o...
I submitted my highlighter to the project as a patch yet they haven’t taken it yet. I am hoping that it gets in soon ...
In May of last year I moved from Seattle to Florida. For about the first 2 months I lived in temporary housing in a c...
Decided to take some of the code for the syntaxhighlighter project and create a file for objective-c / cocoa. Going t...
The week of November 17th I decided to do something crazy: I decided to dive into Objective-C and Cocoa at the Big Ne...
I am tired of looking up this post every time I repave my machine. So here it is, the definitive list of tools and ho...
I spent the last month learning NHibernate and I am definitely a fan. I have been using SQLite for unit testing simil...
So far we have been doing what I do in most projects when I start, spiking some concepts. I can’t say I have really t...
Brad Wilson decided to tag me geek.
Chris Tavares and others have developed an abstraction layer for your IoC / Dependency Container. This will help buil...
In my last post I started putting together connecting my Mac to my WCF web service. I decided to make this into a ser...
A while back I read Kevin Hoffman’s blog attempting to connect to a WSDL Web Service and it didn’t work out so well f...
I really love running as a non admin, although I really miss sudo from Unix. No longer, the smart peeps at PluralSigh...
When I was doing WPF back in the day, I used a very cool and useful tool called Snoop. This tool shows you the visual...
Customer, Company, Group / Team, Self: This is the order of operations.
When we first built the configuration editor for Enterprise Library, we always wanted the ability to have people buil...
With my new fascination with the Mac platform, I have been playing with Mono and Cocoa. I just read this morning that...
The wife knows how much I love my video games so she sent me some wall paper based on Space Invaders. When we finally...
I have been working on an extension to Unity for a while to do interception. It is basically a port that Brad Wilson ...