Essential Tools to find bugs... before they get to production

Developers now have access to free and inexpensive developer tools that can help find and fix many common application problems. These new APM tools are now an essential part of every developer’s tool set. Show me the tools!

angular it's just angular now

angular.io it's just angular man. using angular-cli with webpack is the way to go.Use gitter and the angular/angular channel if you have questions. They are friendly and responsive.rxjs of course rocks ...

Reasons for Automated Testing

So I gave a talk at the Edmonton .NET User Group on an introduction to automated testing. And of course in this introduction I gave a list of reasons why unit testing is a good idea. Although there are ...

How To Hire Top iOS App Developers For The Company?

Things have become so easy these day and all the credits go to the smartphones and mobile applications. People can just tap on smartphones and virtually do everything right from booking air tickets to ...

Multithreading with PowerShell using RunspacePool

If you are working with PowerShell, you may want to start running certain scripts in parallel for improved performance. While doing some research on the topic, I found excellent articles discussing Runspaces ...

7. MonoGame - Putting Text Onscreen With SpriteFonts

MonoGame – Putting Text Onscreen With SpriteFonts In MonoGame, text is displayed on the screen in much the same way as sprites, or 2D images. The difference is in how you prepare the font and how you work ...

Why Should iOS Developers Choose Swift Programming For Applications?

Whenever the developers decide to start new iOS app project, they might be pondered whether to chose Swift programming or Objective-C. Apple introduced Swift in the year 2014 after thorough research and ...

Migrating from NUnit to XUnit–SetupFixture fun

So I was limited to a specific version of NUnit for various reasons, and needed to start being able to run ‘core’ tests, so I migrated to XUnit. Generally not a problem until I hit ‘SetupFixture’. XUnit ...

Is Your Developer Team Designing for a Disaster?

Development teams work at top speed, and the environment in which they work is demanding and complex. Software is no longer considered done until it’s shipped, and there’s been a tendency to view shipped ...

Architecting a Developer Team Turnaround

A couple years ago, I accepted a position as the “director of digital” at a small marketing firm. And yes, there was still a divide between digital and traditional work there. I was mostly hired for my ...

Developer Teams Must Work Differently in the Future

As we inject more new technology into our everyday lives, software development continues to be one of the most popular and fastest growing job fields. But have you ever really thought about the core essence ...

Continuous Improvement is Critical for Developer Success

From the beginning, it became clear that Kanbanize would need more than just cool perks and a nice office to build a dream team equipped to deal with the challenges of a growing startup. A productive and ...

Changing the World with Agile and Lean Startup Methods

I can’t tell you how many companies I’ve seen, of all sizes, who start out with an innovative mission to change the world. They acquire a budget, rally a team together, and get to work for months or years ...

Past the Ping Pong Table for Better Dev Team Culture

here’s quite a bit of press paid to the quirky perks of startup offices. From ping pong tables to beer kegs to pet-friendly work spaces, sometimes it seems like offices are more into having fun than getting ...

Inspire Your Developer Team in 5 Simple Ways

We have a great developer team. We make software. We also invest a lot of time and energy in ensuring that the work we do is excellent. It goes without saying then that our development team is a crucial ...

5 Principles for a Developer Team Culture that Wins

Culture. Of all the overloaded, over-used, buzzword-bingo, five dollar corporate-jingoistic catchphrases of leadership jargon out there, are there any that are more hyped yet seemingly less tangible than ...

Coded to Teach

You will be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t enjoy or engage with video games in this modern age. From mobile apps, Facebook games, to everyday gamification, we are always at play. Developer turned ...

Developing for Change

John Negron, Founder / Be a DoerThe path from developer to founder takes people on many different paths. In the process of creating a non-profit volunteer pipeline and event management platform, Be a Doer ...

Repeating the Successes of the Past in a New Mission

Jeff Atwood, Founder / Stack Overflow / Discourse.orgCo-founder / Stack Exchange When you finally reach your goal of a successful product launch, where do you go from there? Do you stick with it or sell ...

When Your Backup Plan Becomes Your Biggest Success

Steve McConnell, Founder / Construx SoftwareIn this growing age of technology, not everyone who becomes a developer starts out with that as theirgoal. Many start out with a different career or interest, ...

The Twist at the Crossroads

Alexis Pratsides Founder / MintTwistThe path from developer to founder is not always through a single app or product. Many developers take the path of putting their code to use for others. Alexis Pratsides, ...

The Code that Rocks the Cradle

Life has a funny way of sending you down the path you are destined to travel. For me, this funny way involved two babies, a husband tired of living in the clutter of leftover baby gear, my professional ...

White Noise & Coding for Success

Todd Moore / Developer of White Noise / Founder of TMSOFTWhen you dream of founding your own company, you probably have a vision in your head of what it looks like. While everyone hopes that they launch ...

Fulfilling a Need, Founding a Company

Robert Collazo / Co-founder & CTO / HelpSocialOften, the apps and products we create are born out of necessity, and founders are born from that simple need-based-solution. Robert Collazo, co-founder ...

It’s The Bugs You Can’t See That Get Hairiest.

Matt Watson / Founder & CEO / StackifyOur fridge at home is always full. This is generally a good thing. The downside is, it’s hard to find stuff in a fridge that’s been packed to survive an apocalypse. ...

Onshore, Offshore, Nearshore. Boon is One Epic Leader.

Boon Lee, Director of KC Dev Con & Dev Manager ExtraordinaireWhat’s better than chatting with a multi-talented, hugely respected development manager like Boon Lee? Seeing his kids’ heads pop up in ...

Government clearance and a happy wife. Success.

Brian Madsen, LinkedIn .Net User Group Manager, Microsoft MVP, Blogger, & Consultant at byBrick Development ABYou know when you meet someone and you say to yourself, “this person is my new best friend.” ...

Developers are saving the world. It’s true. Eric Meyer is proof.

Eric A. Meyer, Technical Consultant, Author, Trainer and Co-founder of An Event ApartWhen he’s not doing things like speaking at An Event Apart (which he co-founded), writing bleeding edge books on front-end ...

devRant Co-Founder Talks Shipping Code & Making Poops Fun

David Fox, Co-Founder & Head of Eng / devRantAfter a day on the developer front line, we all need to blow off steam. Now there’s an app for that. We got to chat with David Fox, co-founder and head ...

Paging Dr. Campbell…

The Co-host of .NET Rocks! Opens His Performance Diagnostic Toolbox for us, and for a Good CauseRichard Campbell, Podcast, Dev Con, & Non-profit Rock StarRichard Campbell—veteran developer, podcasting ...

To Tool is Human

Matt Watson, Founder & CEO / StackifyIt has been said that tools are what made us human. Our ability to create and use tools allows us to do things that were not imaginablebefore. Software itself has ...

How To Develop Android Applications With iOS Background?

Android has been a successful and the most used operating system. It is based on the Linux and it’s open source. There are various advantages and disadvantages of using Android.It is possible to customize ...

Amazon Alexa Skills Article in Code Magazine

My Amazon Alexa Skills article in Code Magazine is out now, and it’s the cover article!!! Very exciting stuff. You can find it online, at: http://www.codemag.com/Arti... Or you can download the ...

2017 Syntax Code & Craft Conference

Looks like I'll be speaking again this year at the Syntax Code & Craft Conference, in Charleston, SC. Date: May 18 & 19Topic: What's New in C# 7C# 7 introduces a number of great features, including ...

Robotics Process Automation (RPA) - Moving towards digital transformation

World is changing and its changing at a faster pace. Companies need to transform to be able to survive in this competitive world. Focus is more and more on reducing costs and bringing efficiency to the ...

6. MonoGame - Putting a Sprite Onscreen

MonoGame - Putting a Sprite Onscreen If you aren’t familiar with the term “sprite”, it refers to a two-dimensional (2D) graphical image that you can display onscreen. Sometimes they are individual images, ...

Logging To Application Insights In Azure Functions

In my last post I covered logging in Azure Functions using TraceWriter and log4net. Both of these work, but Application Insights rolls all your monitoring into one solution, from metrics to tracking messages. ...

Setting up Slackin using Azure and Let’s Encrypt

So I started the sw-dotnet-developers slack (https://sw-dotnet.uk/) a week or so ago, and quickly realised I needed some kind of self registration system to avoid me having to send off invites to everyone, ...

How To Avoid Malicious Attacks On Android Devices

With millions of smartphone users around the globe, mobile application development is undoubtedly the top income generating business of today’s world of technology. As the number of users of the applications ...

5. MonoGame - The Game Loop

The MonoGame Game Loop (just like the XNA Game Loop) In the previous section, we talked about what you can find in the MonoGame project, so these methods should look familiar. Now I’ll explain a bit more ...

Adventures in 3D Printing

Background: I have a Micro 3D Printer, which runs (usually headless) off an OctoPrint server, running on a Raspberry Pi 3. I moved a few months ago and the whole setup sat in a box until this weekend. ...

Implementing Logging In Azure Functions

Logging is essential to the support of any piece of code. In this post I will cover two approaches to logging in Azure Functions: TraceWriter and log4net. TraceWriter The TraceWriter that is available ...

Building a Culture is Deliberate

Written by: Larissa Murillo, Marketing Manager, MarketGooWENCES GARCIA CEO/MARKETGOOOur company, MarketGoo, was founded in 2012, and we have dedicated four years to building a workplace that enables a ...

What Factors Really Affect The Cost Of iPhone App Development?

Many application development businesses start with one major question- How much it will cost to develop an iOS app?Well, all kind of businesses are demanding for mobile applications now. For example, entertainment, ...

What have you done lately?

Today while spending a little time looking for some professional development opportunities; I realized that I have been good at seeking out knowledge, best practices and all the things I need be familiar ...

Try RxJS in Node.js

Reactive Extension (Rx), which is introduced by Microsoft, is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs, by using observable, observer with LINQ-style query operators. If LINQ is the ...

Partial Class in JavaScript

We should NOT write a lot of code inside one file, or in one class, not only in JavaScript in theory. But in practice we might need to write a huge class. I know in C# we can split one class in multiple ...

Cornwall .NET Developer Meetup–FIRST!

Living in Cornwall is great, surf, sun (ha!) and stunning views all over the place – I’m very lucky :) But one thing it does lack – is .NET meetups, in Cornwall – there are approximately none. That’s right ...

TFS script to automatically add tasks

Using scrum, there’s often tasks that you add to every story. Things like “Unit Tests” and “Code Review”, etc. Entering these in TFS is a pain, so I wrote a quick powershell script to do it for me. This ...

4. MonoGame - What’s in the Starting Project?

MonoGame - What’s in the Starting Project? Now that you have MonoGame & Visual Studio installed, go ahead and create a MonoGame Windows Project. You can call it whatever you want. In the Solution Explorer, ...

Introducing the Azure Key Vault

If you need to store secrets in the Azure cloud, such as connection strings, passwords, or even keys, the Key Vault may be for you. In this post I will provide an overview of the Azure Key Vault and discuss ...