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No, You Aren't Alone.

This situation sucks. My heart goes out to all of those affected by this terrible pandemic across the globe. With our lives flipped upside-down for the foreseeable future, I thought I'd shed some insight into what's going on in my neck of the woods, how I&

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The Other Kafka's Metamorphosis

As someone that has been crafting software for the better part of half of my life, it's be a long time since I've been as excited as I have been over the last few months. Since making the jump late last year into the world of

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How I Haven't Become an Amorphous Blob While Working Remotely

With it being February, I’m sure quite a few folks out there are still trying to keep their New Year's resolutions intact. Since I’d wager quite a few of those are in the area of fitness or personal wellness, this post falls in line with a

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When Random Isn't the Right Random

Nearly any engineer worth his or her salt will likely agree that consistency is important. If they don’t, they probably haven’t ever worked on a large legacy application or with a team of any decent size. Everyone being roughly (sans tabs vs. spaces religious views) on the same

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Just Jump into the Stream

I've spent the better part of my ten-year career as a developer in a relatively safe bubble, technology-wise. Falling in love with a programming language or technology is a bit like the software version of having your first real girlfriend/boyfriend. They might change the ways that you

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The Bug That Got Away

One thing that I've always loved hearing about from fellow engineers or reading about on technical blogs are bugs. Nasty ones. Ones that keep you up at night and those that will wake you from a dead sleep. These are the ones that great stories are built upon,

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Priorities of a Passionate Developer

Anyone that has been around me knows that I'm quite passionate about my craft, and if you are reading this, you probably have a bit of that inside you as well. A huge reason for starting this blog was to try and share some of the pitfalls that

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I Don't Know

Software development is a huge field, I mean huge. You've got front-end folks, back-end folks, database specialists, architects, the engineers, the folks with the people skills to talk to the engineers, and countless others; it's overwhelming. With technology evolving as fast as it does, it'

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Hello XML, My Old Friend; I've Come To Encode You Again.

Depending on how long you've been a developer, XML might be a term that sounds totally foreign. For others, it might bring back long repressed memories of some dark days. In many of my encounters with developers from broad ranges of experiences, I've seen the spectrum

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Can I Have My CPU Back Visual Studio?

Visual Studio 2017 has certainly been a major improvement over previous iteration of the flagship IDE; however, it isn't without its flaws. If you are a web developer, you are probably accustomed to Google Chrome basically hogging all the RAM that your machine has (and potentially more), but

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Creatively Common Resources

Some people hate designing things, and that's okay. But one thing that they might hate more is being sued for copyright infringement (for using content that someone else created without their expressed permission). Recently, I participated in a discussion on this topic and thought I'd share

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Why won't you answer my question?

I've spent more time than I would like to admit on various Q&A sites and forums related to development, where I have answered thousands of questions. Generally, the questions stay within the confines of such forums, however after waking up to my personal inbox being flooded

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (November 2014)

This month’s Interesting List of Development Stuff is a bit all over the place, which I am sure you have come to expect as the norm. Several of the posts touch on Git and various flavors of using it, there are a few .NET specific articles sprinkled in as

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (October 2014)

In this October edition of the Interesting List of Development Stuff, we delve into a variety of topics as usual. There are several articles as always related to developer productivity and life in general as a developer, a few discussions of upcoming changes to popular Javascript-based frameworks like jQuery and

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (September 2014)

Pardon the brevity of this month’s release, it’s been a month of deadlines, crazy news and all sorts of other things. Anyways, I hope that you find some of these links entertaining, useful or some balance of both and I’ll try to make October’s list a

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (August 2014)

In my continual effort to catch up on this seemingly endless back-log of blog posts, this monthly installment of the Interesting List of Development Stuff is quite a bit late. This month covers a few different topics primarily focusing with a few database-oriented topics as well as the usual sprinkling

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (July 2014)

It’s been a rather busy month, so without further ado, here is this the July edition of the Interesting List of Development Stuff. Bootstrap on a 386 [https://kristopolous.github.io/BOOTSTRA.386/] If you ever encounter a client that simply hasn’t migrated to anything newer than a

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (June 2014)

This month’s installment of the Interesting List of Development Stuff is really all over the place. There are articles and posts detailing some of the larger happenings from two major conferences that went down in the month of June, a bevy of interview-related resources, pretty algorithms, technology education, developer

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (May 2014)

In this month’s installment of the Interesting List of Development Stuff, we will take a look at all of the exciting announcements from Microsoft’s TechEd 2014 event as well as the usual collection of all sorts of other development-related news. Exciting things are ahead! How Scott Hanselman Changed

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (April 2014)

In this month’s installment of the Interesting List of Development Stuff, we take a look a quite a few announcements that were made at Microsoft’s Build conference [http://www.buildwindows.com/], articles to help you figure out if you are over-thinking your development projects or if you are

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (March 2014)

In this St. Patrick’s day installment of an Interesting List of Development, we dive into a more .NET-centric approach (with a majority of the topics at least being in the realm of .NET) but as usual, there should be something for everyone. The Roslyn compiler continues to make waves

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (February 2014)

In this installment of my monthly treasure trove of development stuff, we take a slightly more .NET-oriented approach by covering several ASP.NET specific topics, resources and more. But there are quite a few other things that may be applicable to just about any kind of developers (and especially those

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (January 2014)

Software development is a fascinating thing. With a scope so vast and so many languages, topics and general cool things that people are doing, it can be difficult to keep up. So I have decided to start compiling a few of the links, resources, blog posts and other projects that