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There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the need for FOSS (Free Open Source Software) projects to have a CoC (Code of Conduct). A recent tweet I saw made me think about something CoCs are missing and inspired me to write this post.

Good news everyone! Visual Studio 2015 has been released! Visual Studio includes many new features and updates, such as tools for Universal Windows app development, cross-platform mobile development for iOS, Android, and Windows, including Xamarin, Apache Cordova, Unity, and more.

I’m a tech nerd and like most nerds, I like to show off my home workstation. My Surface & It’s Home Base Here are the specs and details of my home workstation:

There are many software tools that I use as part of my job as a developer. Below is a list of the majority of the tools that I find myself regularly turning to to help me do my work.

One of the things you quickly realize with a static website generator like Jekyll is that there is often no good tools to actually manage your content. Making a new blog post with Jekyll can be boiled down to 4 steps:

Here is a very good video about code refactoring by Martin Fowler @ OOP2014 Refactoring is a difficult activity and something that not enough companies dedicate time and resources to performing.

This is an amazing funny video about programming languages. This was a keynote by Guy Steele at The ACM SIGPLAN Conference OOPSLA'98. For those confused by the acronyms:

Let’s try this blogging thing again, shall we? I used to be pretty good about blogging but over the years I let it slip away. I setup a new blog platform a couple years ago but i never actually posted anything.

I decided it was about time to get a new laptop bag. I spent several days looking at bags in stores and online. Unfortunetly, I just couldn’t find one that I felt was the right bag for me.

I decided to finally do a post about my Soylent trial for my family and friends. Sorry it’s so long… What is Soylent? Soylent is food, pure and simple.