Larry Tesler
I have to admit that I didn’t know that much about Larry Tesler prior to his passing last week. I was generally aware of Xerox PARC, and their place in […]
programming
New Year’s Day 2020
It’s almost 8 AM on New Year’s Day, so it’s time for my annual New Year’s self-review post. This has become a tradition for me; here’s a link to last […]
Migrating from Mercurial to Git
Since Bitbucket announced back in August that they would be discontinuing support for Mercurial in 2020, I’ve had an item on my to-do list to convert all of my old […]
Calling a Dynamics AX WCF service from .NET Core
A big part of my job these days is interop between Dynamics AX and various external services/resources. A WCF service hosted in our AX environment is often a key part […]
backing the wrong horse
I have a long history of “backing the wrong horse,” as it were, when faced with decisions between two competing products. I’m one of the idiots who bought an HD-DVD […]
Microsoft Build
I wish I could have stayed in the Seattle area for MS Build, instead of coming back to NJ on Saturday. There have been some interesting announcements, including a new […]
back home and (slightly) broken
I’m back home today, after spending a few days in Redmond, WA for a two-day workshop on the Microsoft Partner Center SDK. This particular API/SDK is esoteric enough that it’s […]
Azure and baseball and comics
As mentioned in yesterday’s post, I did manage to watch a few of the Global Azure Bootcamp videos, yesterday and this morning. I didn’t really find any videos that directly […]
Global Azure Bootcamp and Pragmatic Programming
I’ve been doing a bunch of work related to Azure recently. It’s mostly not around actually using Azure, but rather managing Azure and billing for Azure. I’m in the middle […]
async and await in C#
I haven’t written many programming-related posts lately. A few months ago, I was doing a bunch of research into stuff related to async and await in C#, and made some […]