As a software engineer, I am frequently searching my projects’ source trees for various code snippets, or searching a collection of log files for a particular message, or some other type of text searching activity.  The traditional Windows utility for suc[...]

This is my list of takeaways from a very good talk by Theo Schlossnagle on things you should be thinking about when designing a system for large scale. I hope you enjoy the talk as much as I did, it certainly leaves plenty of food for thought and personal[...]

One of the fears is that the days of PC is considered over. That we there will be a massive shift towards a reduction of the interface. Some have pointed out that the start screen on Windows 8: It’s Almost Not Terrible. Gartner sums it up in a word: Bad f[...]

One of the fears is that the days of PC is considered over. That we there will be a massive shift towards a reduction of the interface. Some have pointed out that the start screen on Windows 8: It’s Almost Not Terrible. Gartner sums it up in a word: Bad f[...]

Coffeescript has been heralded as a way to avoid some of the nastiness of JavaScript. Now Anders Hejlsberg introduces a new addition to the story: TypeScript. I read this from a pal that linked to a blog post. The geist of the post is a slight positive no[...]

Coffeescript has been heralded as a way to avoid some of the nastiness of javascript. Now Anders Hejlsberg introduces a new addition to the story: Typescript. I read this from a pal that linked to a blog post. The geist of the post is a slight positive no[...]

This weekend, I was writing some demo code for the async chapter of C# in Depth - the idea was to decompile a simple asynchronous method and see what happened. I received quite a surprise during this, in a way which had nothing to do with asynchrony. Giv[...]

Gestern habe ich schon den ersten Teil meiner Notizen hier auf dem Blog veröffentlicht. Jetzt geht es weiter mit Teil 2. Scrum Microsoft hat den internen Prozess auf Scrum umgestellt und ich finde das merkt man wirklich. Es sind zwar nur zwei Tage Konfere[...]