You may have seen this before: This is why you shouldn't interrupt a programmer: https://t.co/K2dNXKzjem— Jason Heeris (@detly) October 28, 2013 Flow state is important for developers ...

Having browser integration with KeePass can be helpful, and can be accomplished with Google Chrome using KeePassHttp and chromeIPass. Here’s how: Install KeePassHttp You can install KeePassHttp ...

If you’re using the Azure Storage Emulator as part of a suite of integration tests using xUnit.net v2, ideally you start and stop the emulator only once per test run. With xUnit.net v2, you can acc...

If you’re writing code that uses Microsoft Azure Storage blobs, tables, or queues, you can use the storage emulator on Windows for local development – rather than relying on the cloud while develop...

In some applications, it’s important to display date and time information in the user’s expected time zone. One option is storing time zone preference information as part of a user’s account inform...

Silverpop is an marketing service that includes email marketing – both for sending normal email campaign messages, as well as sending transactional emails. This transactional emailing is referred t...

Here’s Visual Studio Community 2013 General settings defaults: If you want to simplify the UI, it’s possible to turn it into this: Instructions Here’s how to achieve the trimmed down screens...

I’ve had a great year with some great accomplishments, including: Started speaking in public! I delivered a talk at NYC Code Camp, two at Harrisburg .Net Code Camp, and one at BarCamp Harrisbur...

Zendesk is a web based customer service application that includes tickets. As a Zendesk customer, you can typically interact only with tickets that are not archived. Archiving takes place 120 days...

Pam Selle has been writing blog posts on Scary Words in Programming. This is my contribution on eventual consistency. Eventual consistency is a consistency model used in distributed computing t...