TechEd: Azure Recommendation
Yo Boss!Sorry for the unproffessional start to this email but over the years I feel we have come closer.... the server crash of 2010, the staging server version snuaffu of 2011, the disk error...
View ArticleIntroducing: Nasmine
So, some of the JS geeks at work have taken to Jasmine for their unit tests, from those lovely people at Pivotal Labs. I loved the syntax and simplicity of the notation, so a spike and bit later I have...
View ArticleAzure: VMs out of Preview, but what's with the pricing?
Yesterday Microsoft announced that Azure VMs where out of preview and are now backed by the 99.95 SLA. We all saw it coming, but this was finally confirmed too that they would be slightly more...
View ArticleWot, no Unit Tests? Solution #1
Our unit coverage has been growing slowly for a while now. This is a newish thing for my current place of work so we were expecting it to be slow while we move the architecture around to make unit test...
View ArticleWot, no Unit Tests? Solution #2
I cannot claim that this is my idea, but I thought it was clever.At a previous employer, we received an email that offered £200 behind the bar of the local pub for the section that was tidiest by the...
View ArticleCloud Providers: Can we standardize core speed, please?
A few months back I backed the Parallela project on Kickstarter. For me their story was compelling and I think they have a very good point.Long story short: computers are not going to get faster in a...
View ArticleBeware of a man bearing awesome debugging techniques....
I have recently struck upon a theory that I think is worth sharing.In recent months I have been introduced to a series of debugging techniques in Visual Studio that I was blissfully unaware of. These...
View ArticleTechEd 2013: AdHoc Guide to Preparation
This year I have had the good fortune to win a trip to TechEd 2012 in Madrid. Yay for me!Having never been to a conference like this before I thought I would have a look round for tips and hints on how...
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