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To noSQL or not to noSQL
So yesterday I got caught up in the newbie trap. I was researching noSQL solutions, namely MongoDB and Raven, and found myself wanting to shoe horn the technology into something merely for the reason...
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Mobile apps, something new
This week I began coding on my first mobile app. The first obstacle I found of course is to pick the technologies to use. At this point I know I want to target the IOS and Android platforms for the...
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Mobile Feed Reader App – Part 1: Environment & Project Setup
A few weeks ago I started to post regarding the building of my first mobile app. After working with jQuery Mobile some and getting a good feel on its capabilities I started to move forward. For part...
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Mobile Feed Reader App – Part 2: Create RSS reader
This is the second part to the mobile application posts I had been working on. Look for another post to come soon regarding testing and debugging as that certainly was a challenge due to the amount of...
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New trick for PHP, passing by ref!
I started my development career scripting PHP 4 . This was my first dive into programming and pretty much had to figure it out as I went. Many years later, I turned to the c# language and have not...
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MSTest Headaches. I just need a file!
Last week I was very frustrated trying to get a file to be copied into the running test directory automatically. The test needs to be able to read data from a sample file and then test the logic of the...
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The art of dependency injection
Some time ago, I had some junior developers ask me why we should worry about dependency injection in our source code and what the value is. Well, the real value in my mind is being able to mock out...
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Get Smarty, No tv, just PHP code
So this week I started working on a new project to port some on premise software into a shared hosted model. My first thought of course was some type of MVC pattern. I stumbled across CakePHP and...
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To be agile
Some time ago I found myself interviewing developers for a position that we had and quickly found that being “agile” for many either means that they are doing iterative waterfall development or that...
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Memory is great, till you run out
So this morning I had an issue at work where a process kept throwing a System.OutOfMemoryException. We checked out the virtual machine, and seen that the memory being used was about 75-80% of what was...
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Agile planning poker with remote teams
Anyone that has been working in agile software development has undoubtedly used some form or planning poker. A common standard is to have sizing meetings with the team, and in these meetings the team...
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Mobile apps, something new
This week I began coding on my first mobile app. The first obstacle I found of course is to pick the technologies to use. At this point I know I want to target the IOS and Android platforms for the...
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To be agile
Some time ago I found myself interviewing developers for a position that we had and quickly found that being “agile” for many either means that they are doing iterative waterfall development or that...
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Fun with MVC Action Filters
Today while working in an MVC web application I ran into a scenario where I needed to authorize access based on an internally developed authorization system. At first I thought about overriding the...
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JSON standards vs C# naming standards
Anyone that has coded in C# for any amount of time is accustom to seeing property names in Pascal case such as the example below… public class MyClass { public string MyString { get;set; } public int...
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Debugging windows services
One problem that I have ran into time and time again while working on windows services is the difficulty around needing to debug them. Sure, you can setup the service within windows and then start it...
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Agile Process Definition
Recently I have been challenged by coming into a new startup which is still finding it’s way with agile and just work item management. Over the years, I have managed and lead many different teams and...
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Devops, CI/CD, and making sense of it all
Seems like once 2019 got here, devops is the new buzzword (or at least in the Midwest). In this article I’ll throw together a quick demo of using Jenkins, git, and docker to create a simple website...
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For anyone that has been around software development for some time, there is an almost inevitable need to use another library for some functionality. Below I have started to collect a list of known...
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Separating application logic
Often as a developer, we have multiple layers to an application. Typically speaking, we have some type of presentation layer, a middle tier, and a data backend. A common way of thinking about this...
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