Change occurs all the time. As programmers we write rules and logic, but knowing that the requirements of today aren’t going to work in the business world of tomorrow is part of the deal. We allow for that, we write around it. But these changes are normally regarding the fundamental… Read more »
Developers love to experiment. There’s always something we don’t know, and we have a constant desire to play with the latest tech; ensuring we’ve figured it out and are keeping those skills razor sharp. This post is a way of reminding myself of the quagmire that is learning new things…. Read more »
Sorry I’ve been so quiet of late. I did exactly what I said I wouldn’t do and re-wrote my old Windows 8/WP8 version of DashBuddy – moving it to Windows 10. What does that mean? It means I have a new UI, with a lovely menu down the side of… Read more »
This is more of a reminder for me than anything. In VS2015, when you’re pulling a branch from source control for the first time – a perfectly working application may suddenly throw thousands of errors and die in Shakespearean style. Every last gasp, or error message, will seemingly come from… Read more »
Ensuring that your users have a consistent view when they navigate through your application can be one of the most time consuming parts of development. This has been made even more difficult with Universal Apps in WP 8.1 due to a change in the navigation model. Scenario The issue becomes… Read more »
Programmers tend to be arrogant, self-absorbed introverts. We didn’t get into this business because we like people. Most of us got into programming because we prefer to deeply focus on sterile minutia, juggle lots of concepts simultaneously, and in general prove to ourselves that we have brains the size of… Read more »
I was so weary. After several years of anguish and anger I had nothing left to fight with. I’m not proud of it, but I’ll admit it, I let bad things happen to good code. Code that was worthy and pure, strong with a single purpose, dependant on others, but… Read more »
My inner geek says that a lot. I’ll read an article about a new component, a new style of project or yet another way of trying to make anything I do look prettier than I can ever create it – and there it is, high pitched and getting in the… Read more »
I have no idea how this blog post is going to turn out. It stems from a comment made by ProfessorVod about naming. He mentions the affect self-doubt can have on your ability to name things correctly, and more importantly for me the fact that his original thought was normally… Read more »
The 1.4.1 release of DotLess is available on NuGet. As a contributor on this release, it’s my first step into helping with an Open Source project – and I’m glad I picked such a useful product to help with! The big news with this release is that the latest Bootstrap… Read more »