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Developer Tools • Jul 17, 2015

Using Vagrant to Deploy to a Remote Hyper-V Host

My Vagrant/Hyper-V combo worked well, but had two problems: wifi going out, and the large footprint of Vangrant/Chef on a Windows OS.

Growing as Makers • Jul 10, 2015

Podcast Review: Programming Throwdown

If you’re interested in high-level introductions to languages or topics you don’t know much about, I would strongly recommend Programming Throwdown.

Developer Tools • Jul 01, 2015

CodeRunner: A Generalist’s Swiss Army Knife

While all of its features, taken separately, are available for free, CodeRunner makes it painless to sit down, choose your language, and just start coding.

Business Practices • Jun 26, 2015

8 Characteristics of a Software Developer at Atomic

We believe these characteristics are what it takes — not just to develop good code — but to create great products, satisfied customers, and happy users.

UX/Design Techniques • Jun 23, 2015

Six Keys to a Successful Project Kickoff

A successful project kickoffs is far more than the sum of its parts, no matter how well-chosen those parts are.

Web Apps • Jun 22, 2015

Speeding Up Your JavaScript Test Suite

I just went through the practice of speeding up a large JavaScript test suite for my project. Here are some of the culprits I found and how I fixed them.

Extracurricular Activities • Jun 21, 2015

Spy on Your Garden with Garden KnowEms

Garden KnowEms read temperature, humidity, light, and moisture and send data to a watering station or smart phone via BluetoothLE.

Personal Optimization • Jun 20, 2015

Learn the Stages of Sales & Become a Better Sales Person

Understanding the stages is the first step toward addressing your weaknesses and improving your strengths.

Exploratory Testing • Jun 11, 2015

More Ways to Test – Quick Attacks on CRUD Apps

A quick attack toolkit for exploratory testing of Create, Read, Update, Delete apps.

Development Practices • Jun 05, 2015

Five Translation Pitfalls to Avoid

Reasonable-looking code can hide translation debt and cause great sadness when the team can least afford it. If you spend the time to write some nice tooling for pseudo-translation

.NET / WPF • May 29, 2015

Performance Analysis with ETW: Event Tracing for Windows

Next time you have a performance problem, don’t guess what the problem might be. Collect an ETW trace and discover exactly what is occurring.

Development Practices • May 28, 2015

Best Practices for Dev. Project Resurrection

Taking over a project that has been archived for a few years can be daunting. Here are key practices and tools to help you maintain sanity (and budget).