Desktop OS for developers
The results of the latest StackOverflow Developer Surveyhttp://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016 just came out, showing – among other interesting things – that Windows is dying as a developer OS. Not one t…
Salvation through a bad resource
Me and a colleague have been struggling for some time deploying an IIS website correctly using chef. As you may be aware, chef is used to describe the desired state of the configuration of a system through the use of res…
How to hire devs for a small project
Do you have a smallish bit of programming type work you need done? You are thinking of either hiring somebody or getting contractors in? There are several pitfalls that you could experience and not all of them are the fa…
Tech stuff for non-technical people
This is not a deeply technical post. Even less technical than my other ones. I write this inspired by a conversation on Twitter where I got asked about a few fairly advanced pieces of technical software by a clever but n…
Getting back into WPF
These last couple of weeks I have been working with a Windows desktop app based on WPF. I hadn’t been involved with that in quite some time so there was some trepidation before I got stuck in.…
Simple vs “Simple”
F has two key features that makes the code very compact. Significant whitespace and forced compilation order.…
Rebootcamp
I have been saying a bunch of things, repeating what others say, mostly, but never actually internalised what they really meant. After a week with Fred Georgehttps://twitter.com/fgeorge52 and Tom Scotthttps://twitter.com…
Powershell woes
Trying to orchestrate and automate distributed tests with powershell leads to things such as using remote powershell or psexec to start tests on VMs and to use PSDrives to set up tests and collect logs.…
UTF-8
Having grown up in a society evolved beyond the confines of 7-bit ASCII and lived through the nightmare of codepages as well as cursed the illiterate that have so little to say they can manage with 26 letters in their al…
Powershell
I am extending some tests we are running in powershell. It is used to validate that the chef configs we are setting up so that all moving parts are running.…