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Asking technical questions at conferences

Oh man! This is some subject! Where does one even begin? This blog post was triggered by the following picture that came across my twitter timeline this morning. And it got me properly ragging! If you run through this flowchart, then the chances of asking a question are very close

Execute SQL Query with PowerShell

Scripting is very powerful. And for me, one of the best scripting languages is PowerShell (PoSH). Yes, PoSH takes a bit of getting used to, but once you pass the initial learning curve, you end up with a powerful tool in your hands. One thing that I love about PoSH

Visual Studio 2015 tips and tricks - Visug talk, Belgium

Yesterday, I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at Visug, the .NET User Group in Belgium. Attendance was good (about 35-40 people) though it could have been better should the road access hadn't been impacted by massive traffic delays. Nonetheless, the show must go on and we did

TDD - The larger issues

Test Driven Development (TDD) is a programming methodology that has seen a great deal of success but has also caused an equally great deal of friction in the development community. In [a previous article](GHOST_URL/common-mistakes-in-tdd/" target="_blank), I described the common mistakes that developers tend to

Common mistakes in TDD

The post below is an excerpt from the talk I recently delivered at [SwanseaCon](http://swancon.co.uk/" target="_blank) (Wales). This is part 1 of a series of TDD posts I'm planning on writing. The main focus of the series is to highlight common issues in Test

SwanseaCon - Talking about common problems with TDD

Next week (7-9th September 2015) I will be delivering a talk on "Common problems with TDD" at the [SwanseaCon conference](http://swancon.co.uk/" target="_blank) in beautiful Wales, UK. It's my first time in Wales at this first-time conference, so I'm really excited to be

Setting up a Gulp task with Visual Studio Code

As a web developer, certain tools have become indispensable. I can't even imagine having to do any front-end work without [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/" target="_blank), [Grunt](http://gruntjs.com/" target="_blank) or [Gulp](http://gulpjs.com/" target="_blank). In fact, these tools

Working with TypeScript in Visual Studio Code - a pair made for each other

[TypeScript](http://www.typescriptlang.org/" target="_blank) is a new(ish), open source language that is a superset of JavaScript. TypeScript was designed to bring object-oriented features along with ES6 support. Any valid JavaScript is TypeScript and all TypeScript code compiles to nice, clean JavaScript. With ES6 (EcmaScript2015)