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Apprenticeship Day 3
On her 3rd day, Alice starts writing some code, and uses the Argotic framework to process some RSS and ATOM feeds.
Apprenticeship Day 2
On her second day, Alice is given a deep dive into the commercial side of the business.
Apprenticeship Day 1
Alice covers her day 1 experience of starting her apprenticeship at endjin; setting up her development environment and getting familiar with endjin's tools and systems.
Equipping a kick-ass meeting room for less than £1500
In this post I kit out our new meeting room for £1500 and turn it into a collaboration and meeting space that we use on a daily basis for solution design & pairing sessions, conference calls with our clients, partners and remote workers as well as lunch time brown bag training sessions
Downloading Windows Azure Subscription Files
If you use Azure Management Studio, you can quickly setup your connections by importing your publish settings...
Reclaiming Space after updating to Windows 8.1
A quick tip of how to reclaim up to 10GB of space after updating to Windows 8.1
Making the move from iOS to Windows Phone 8
I've been a long term Smartphone user, and early iPhone adopter, but I've become fatigued by Apple and wanted to migrate to the new Windows Phone platform.
Azure: updating Service Configuration while running in Emulator
A quick tip for updating your Azure cloud service configuration while running in the emulator
Azure Table Storage throws a StorageException when using DateTime.Min
1601 was the year that Pierre de Fermat and King Louis XIII of France were born, Robert Devereux was beheaded in the Tower of London, the Dutch defeated the Portuguese navy in the battle of Bantam Bay and the year Shakespeare's Hamlet is thought to have been performed for the first time. Monday January, 1st 1601 (in the Gregorian calendar) was a pretty uneventful day yet the first day of the 17th century is affecting millions today.
Bootstrap 3 At A Glance - Part One - Motivations
In this post we look at the history and motivations behind the Bootstrap CSS library, and the goals of the project.
Learning to Program: Part 12 — Recursion in F#
Part 12 of our beginner's programming series, using F# recursion to solve real problems, illustrated by calculating the odds of winning the UK National Lottery.
A Step by Step Guide to Automating TeamCity Backups
In this blog post, I provide a how-to guide for automating your TeamCity backups using a PowerShell script.
Learning to Program: Part 11 — Minimizing boolean expressions in F#
In this post we delve deeper into Function and Logic and look at minimizing Boolean Expressions with F#
Step-by-step: migrating a TeamCity Instance to another server
Migrate your TeamCity instance with this guide, covering the step-by-step process when in-place upgrades aren't viable.
Learning to Program: Part 10 — Operators in F#
In this post, we'll look at how our function can work more like the other logical F# operators we've already used.
Keyboard shortcut to collapse all projects in Solution Explorer
Just so that I never ever forget this again. Here's how to assign a keyboard shortcut to collapse all projects in Visual Studio Solution Explorer.
Learning to Program: Part 9 — Functions in F#
Part 9 of our beginner's programming series: defining and calling functions in F# with let bindings, bridging mathematics and reusable, composable code.
What does sudo mean?
sudo, short for 'super user do', is the Linux and macOS command for running programs as root or as another user. It's similar to the runas command on Windows.
Example of a full-width bleed using Bootstrap 3
See how to use Bootstrap 3 to create a full-page bleed.
Guest Blog Post: Work Experience at endjin – Week 2
Joshua, 15, is spending two weeks at endjin doing work experience. In this post he reflects on his second and final week.
Learning to Program: Part 8 — Working with logic
In this post, we'll look at how we can bring logic to bear on our problems.
Xamarin platform setup gotchas: Final Edition!
Last post on the topic and links to all the other entries centred around troubleshooting/setting up your Xamarin mobile dev environment.
Guest Blog Post: Work Experience at endjin - Week 1
Joshua, 15, is spending two weeks at endjin doing work experience. In this post he reflects on his first week.
Visual Studio, Xcode and VMware Fusion Shared Folders
Xamarin lets you develop iOS applications using Visual Studio. This is obviously great for .NET Developers except that you currently have to go to Xcode (Apple's Developer tool) if you want to create the UI using a designer tool.
Learning to Program: Part 7 — Representing numbers
In post, we're going to look at the data memory in more detail, and learn how we can represent numbers in a computer.