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The Pyramid of Programmer Badassery
Listen to this episode of the Herding Code podcast to get the seeds of this conversation. Or scroll to the bottom and worship Cori Drew. @coridrew7h : @ElegantCoder <3 your "Hierarchy of...
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How do you know if you can take your open-source project to the next level?
693 days ago (wow), just shy of two years, I typed git push upstream master into Git Bash and pushed out the first public code of Nancy. Since then, and thanks to the fantastic response that we given...
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A Thought on Starting and Growing Your Practice
There are many known models for growth. Apprentice/Journey/Master Su/Ha/Ri All essentially say this: Imitate to understand Experiment deliberately to find improvement Someday, maybe, perhaps (based on...
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Learn to Code Online
There is a thread going around on the Boise Web Techs Meetup group discussing online learning options. A pretty good list going here - http://net.tutsplus.com http://www.udemy.com/ http://www.lynda.com...
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PowerShell Presentation at the Northern Nevada Software Dev Group.
Last night I gave a talk on PowerShell to the Northern Nevada Software Developers Group. If interested, the presentation material is up on my GitHub account. Thanks to all who attended! Happy Scripting!
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More than slightly modified “CD” command for PowerShell
A while back I wrote about a Slightly modified “CD” Command for PowerShell. Since that point, I’ve made a number of updates and would like to share them. The first change I made was to move the “CD”...
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What’s on your software bucket list?
One of my favourite drinking topics with fellow geeks right now is a software bucket list. What are the things that you would love to write before the end of your career. No limits. Write a list...
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Visual Studio Light Edition
I noticed this blog post from Scott Hanselman the other day about Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. This post included a screenshot from the installation program. Something that really...
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Easily set Visual Studio keyboard bindings with the Nuget Package Manager...
After a fresh install of Visual Studio, I often re-configure some options and setup keyboard bindings. This tends to be a bit of a pain as each and every time I have to remember what setting is in what...
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Visual Studio Keyboard Bindings
Ever wondered about all the commands and keyboard bindings in Visual Studio? Ever wondered how many different ways exist to run a given command? I wondered how many keyboard mappings there are in...
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When is a reference a reference?
My team is building some new awesomeness for Visual Studio and having fun conversations along the way. Here is the latest thing we are tossing about and we would like your help in thinking it through....
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Nokia 920 vs. HTC 8X
This is a total layman’s review of these phones. If you want tech specs and the complete rundown to the pixel level, go to CNET. Through a twist of fate, I came to have 2 brand spanking new Windows 8...
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CodeMash 2013 Pre-Compiler Slides
Last Tuesday Alexei Govorine and I presented a 1 day pre-conference workshop at 2013 CodeMash conference in Sandusky, Ohio. Realizing Agility with Scrum and Visual Studio 2012 It was a great day with...
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CodeMash Trip Report
In know I just posted my slides, but then I remembered that my jefe specifically asked me to share trip reports, which is a great idea. I wrote this and thought I may as well share it on ElegantCode,...
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Testacular cannot find Chrome on windows.
I recently started playing with AngularJS. After downloading the seed project and trying to run the tests with Testacular, I bumped into small issue that was not immediately obvious to resolve. When I...
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Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Express Routing Revisited
Last year I wrote this blog post where I described a couple of ways on how to tackle routing with Express. In the mean while I moved on from the “Plain Old School” approach to an approach where I...
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My Team’s Gated Build
What is the most far out thing you’ve done in a CI build? I got this note through my Inbox today: I have configured the Gated build agent to: Run CodeAnalysis Treat CodeAnalysis Warnings as Errors...
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Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript
Earlier this week, I read this great article titled “Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript” by Addy Osmani. This is a highly recommended read for anyone involved in writing JavaScript code. The...
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Agile for Families in the WSJ
Elegant Code readers know I have used agile practices with my kids and family for years now. I even write and speak about it occasionally. Here are some past articles on the subject, and one podcast....
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Always is always
Do any of you have twitch words? Words that set you off? If someone says that particular word, you go into attach mode. I do. For me, that word is “always”. Case in point, if you are writing a user...
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