Working from home (WFH) has suddenly seen a surge in popularity for various reasons. I’ve seen all kinds of cool and creative setups, from converting a wine shelf, to creating a make-shift standing desk by way of a laundry basket on top of a counter. I always thought it would be nice to have a dedicated room for a home-office […]
Sometimes when debugging an app, I’ll need to frequently open the developer tools in Google Chrome for assistance. Sure, it’s easy to just press F12, but after a while, I got sick of having to do that each time. I thought it would be nice to have Visual Studio launch Chrome with the developer tools window already open. After doing […]
Recently I was working on a codebase that had a lot of branches. Some of them had been committed to the remote github repository, others were just local. Some were current, some were stale. After looking at the madness I decided to “clean-up” some of the branches and get rid of the older ones. In addition to the excessive amount […]
DISCLAIMER: Perform at your own risk. I take no responsibility if you damage/fry your Hue Bridge! I love the Philips Hue bulbs. I’ve got some in my living room, and a couple in my bedroom that sync with my alarm clock app to slowly light up and simulate a sunrise when it’s time for me to wake up. The one […]
In Part 1 and Part 2 of my Intro to Test Driven Development posts, we worked our way through a Greed Kata exercise and discovered how we can use TDD to help design our code in a more generic and testable way. If you’re new to TDD, feel free to start with the first two parts of this series before […]
In this article we’re going to tackle the extra credit portion of the kata we worked on in Part 1 (feel free to take a step back to that article if you haven’t yet read it). We’re going to continue where Part 1 left off, so make sure your code is in a state that resembles that given at the […]
Recently at a local meetup, I was asked to work on a kata with a few new guests who weren’t familiar with TDD. While I know what TDD is, and have a descent understanding of how to apply it, what I didn’t realize is how bad of a teacher I would be. I decided to write this article for a […]
Microsoft CilckOnce applications are a unique breed. They are isolated, self-contained apps that can be self-updating, and generally have minimal impact on a user’s system. When installing or running them on a local system the process is generally very easy – simply double click the program, and it should run (after it initially installs, if need-be). What happens if you […]
Once in a while I need to demonstrate to someone how to accomplish a task, or show someone the steps I am taking to reproduce a problem. For those times when screen sharing isn’t necessary or available, I use a nice little program called LICEcap. LICEcap is a program that lets you make animated screen captures and save them as […]