(Or in other words, how to arrange your office space) As I have been working in the office more, I’ve started to think more about how to organize the office space to enhance the collaborative nature of our work. A...
I’ve been thinking heavily on the topic of leadership for several days now and trying to understand what works and what doesn’t. I am currently in the midst of a massive and daring undertaking and putting tremendous demands on my...
One of the challenges of managing builds and deployments of source on multiple developer machines is that it can be complicated to contain and manage different variations in developer environments. For example, often times, it is useful to know the...
There are many ways to improve the performance of your CAML queries, but I’ve recently found that in some cases, it’s as easy as switching the order of your filter operations. In this case, I was searching across a list...
If you’re working with ZeroMQ, you may run into an exception with the message “Context was terminated”. It turns out that this is due to the garbage collector cleaning up (or attempting to clean up?) the ZmqContext. Found this out...
I’ve been working with ZeroMQ lately and I think I’ve fallen in love. It’s rare that a technology or framework just jumps out at you, but here is one that will get your head spinning on the different ways that...
I’ve talked about writing object-oriented and domain-driven design before. In talking with another dev this week, I think I have my simplest summary of object-oriented code yet: when you are writing well written object oriented code, you’ll know it by...
SharePoint has an image problem with many folks. I’ve discussed it before, but I think I have a new perspective on the issue. You see, I recently interviewed a candidate that was Microsoft Certified IT Professional: SharePoint Administrator 2010 and Microsoft...
This seemingly innocuous call can be quite dangerous when used incorrectly. The reason is that this property invocation actually executes the query. This is OK if you plan on iterating the results because the results are cached, but costly if...
There is a key difference when we look at social networks in our personal lives (Facebook , Twitter, etc.) and professional lives (LinkedIn) and social networks in an enterprise and that key difference is that enterprises are still primarily concerned...