Should I merge or rebase in git?
A lot has been said about whether folks should rebase, squash or merge into their git repos. It has almost gotten to the level of religious arguments like tab vs.…
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A lot has been said about whether folks should rebase, squash or merge into their git repos. It has almost gotten to the level of religious arguments like tab vs.…
I’ve spent the past few weeks building up the PCLCrypto library which targets .NET Framework, Windows Store (WinRT), Windows Phone (WP8), Silverlight (SL), Xamarin.Android (XA) and Xamarin.iOS (XI). What started…
Disclosure and disclaimer: I am a software engineer at Microsoft, but the following post (just like all other posts on this blog) is my own and in no way represents…
Inspired by these instructions, I followed these steps: Install Python 2.6 Install PyGTK All-in-one installer Install meld Then you need to configure git to be able to find and invoke…
In my last post, I detailed the differences among read/write, read only, frozen and immutable collection types. I described how immutable collections come with a hit to the garbage collector…
I have accepted a new position within Microsoft with the Visual Studio Platform & Ecosystem team. Rather than working on the .NET Compact Framework I will be working on "VS10". …
Somehow the "Schneier on Security" blog feed was injected into my Google Reader environment. I have never heard of this guy, and I certainly don’t have his feed in my…
Some internal changes here at Microsoft finds me looking for a new job. I am focusing my search on jobs still here at Microsoft, but I guess I need to…
The C# library I wrote that wraps SPSS IO library (spssio32.dll) for managed applications is now hosted on CodePlex. It hasn’t been developed much in the last few years, but…
I have 1GB databases that grow several GB log files. How do you safely clear those logs? Well, probably the best practice includes backing them up. That was overkill for…