Development

I spend a fair amount of time in consoles - specifically PowerShell and Bash (Windows Subsystem for Linux) on my Windows 10 machine. I also work with Git - a lot. So having a cool console that is Git aware is a must. I

This week at MVP summit, I showed some of my colleagues a trick that I use to manage identity hell. I have several accounts that I use to access VSTS and the Azure Portal: my own Microsoft Account (MSA), several org accounts and customer

VSTS supports service hooks like Slack, AppVeyor, Bamboo and a host of other ALM tools. You can also create your own hooks using a simple WebHooks API. There's an example here. However, one thing that is missing from the sample is any kind of

In my last couple of posts I’ve spoken about the amazing Javascript framework, Aurelia, that I’ve been coding in. Visual Studio is my IDE of choice – not only because I’m used to it but because it’s just a brilliant editor

Over the past few weeks I have been developing a Web UI using Aurelia by Rob Eisenberg. It’s really well thought out – though it’s got a steep learning curve at the moment since the documentation is still very sparse. Of course it

I’ve been coding a web project using Aurelia for the last couple of weeks (more posts about what I’m actually doing to follow soon!). Aurelia is an amazing SPA framework invented by Rob Eisenberg (@EisenbergEffect). JSPMAurelia utilizes npm (Node Package Manager) as

We’ve got some TypeScript models for our web frontend. If you’re doing any enterprise JavaScript development, then TypeScript is a must. It’s much more maintainable and even gives you some compile-time checking. Even though TypeScript is a subset of JavaScript, you

I’m back to doing some dev again – for a real-life, going-to-charge-for application! It’s great to be based from home again and to be on some very cutting edge dev. I’m very comfortable with ASP.NET MVC, but this project is the

I’ve started to experiment a bit with some PowerShell DSC – mostly because it’s now supported in Release Management (in Update 3 CTP at least). Sometimes when you apply a configuration to a node (machine), the node requires a reboot (for example adding

Series Links: Part 1: The Basics (this post) – also guest posted on MSDevDiv SA BlogPart 2: IntelliTrace Everywhere – also guest posted on MSDevDiv SA BlogPart 3: Enable Custom IntelliTrace Events with a Right-ClickIn my previous post I showed you how to enable IntelliTrace for

Series Links: Part 1: The Basics (this post) – also guest posted on MSDevDiv SA BlogPart 2: IntelliTrace Everywhere – also guest posted on MSDevDiv SA BlogPart 3: Enable Custom IntelliTrace Events with a Right-ClickThis brief series of blog posts will show you how to get

You’re a responsible developer – you write code, and then you write tests (or, perhaps you even write tests and then write code?). You also love good, solid frameworks that separate concerns and utilize dependency injection and inversion of control and all of that

In a previous post about the MS Fakes framework, I made mention of some bugs that appeared in the Beta. I finally had some time to test out the same code in the RC, and I am pleased to tell you that the bugs