Firing with dignity: In defense of the immediate escort
Earlier this week, Chris Dixon (blog|twitter) wrote about firing from a startup. I’ve never worked in a start-up. I’ve also never ran a company or fired anyone. However, I have been fired from an...
View ArticleMSIExec and Far Manager Part 1: Command line install and uninstall of...
This is part one in a series of blog articles in which I shed light on the internals of MSIs using the example of the MSI for Far Manager 3. It was inspired, amongst other thing, by lessons learned...
View ArticleSaying Thank You and the Stack Exchange Summer of Love
Recently Joel Spolsky kicked off the Stack Exchange summer of love as a way to be proactive against the rudeness that occurs in all mature online forums. Then Josh Heyer clarified the role of niceness...
View ArticleWhy should developers learn and use PowerShell?
Its no secret that I’m a PowerShell true believer. I’m often frustrated why many of my fellow developers don’t fall in love with PowerShell the way I do. However, today, I found this interview by Doug...
View ArticleLooking to improve my software craftsmanship in Cambridge, England on...
I’ll get right to the point. My employer needs me to be in London on Friday 2012-10-19, and I decided to stay the weekend. I settled a nice youth hostel in Cambridge. At first I was thinking of...
View ArticleSQLCLR wrapper for RAISERROR()
Recently I was writing a SQLCLR stored procedure. I made several calls to RAISERROR() in the procedure. While this meant that my stored procedure would be easier to debug in the future because of...
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Continuous Integration with Windows Azure SDK 1.7, Powershell and TFS Build too!
Environments change and the solutions to support them have to keep up. For a while I was very entertained with my old deployment solution for a good while. Although, we eventually moved to Azure, and...
View ArticleExcel Link Dump
I was recently told I had to train one of my companies clients to access our API’s using Excel. This ended up being a miscommunication, and the client wanted to use C#. However, I spent a day...
View ArticleWindows Internals Study Group – First meeting
Last night myself and two others had out first planning meeting via google huddle for our Windows Internals Study group. We will be meeting next Wednesday 2012-11-17 at 20:30 EST to discuss the first...
View ArticleAnnouncing poshrunner.exe so MyScript.ps1 can use MyScript.ps1.config instead...
I have a tendency to do odd things with technology so that things don’t just work. When I point out the obscure edge cases I find, most people tell me, “well don’t do that.” I usually ignore them and...
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