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...

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Are you an eager GitHub user who wants to contribute to a repository that uses a development branch, but aren’t familiar with getting started without committing to master? No worries, here we go! ...

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