Retention policy and crypto
I just deleted an old post because I re-read it and I was attempting my own crypto on config files instead of using DPAPI. I reserve the right to delete old posts if they turn out to be complete bollocks.…
2016
More about configs while developing
In my previous post I discussed what you can and shall automate in terms of your development environment and I speculated in one place about what one ought to do with the web.config file in Visual Studio. I have made a s…
Sprint 0 for old school .NET devs
When you start work on a code base, either from scratch or as you approach it as a new dev, there are a few things you should ensure are in place before you get going. Like most other things, these are easier and more na…
Red mist
Sometimes you get so upset about something you need to blog about it, and ranting on Twitter, Facebook and Channel 9 comments just did not quite seem enough.…
Passwords – for wannabe techies
EDIT: As you will notice a lot of my links point to the works of security researcher Troy Hunt, and I should point out that I have no affiliation with him. I just happen to find articles that make sense and they happen t…
Passwords. For non-techies
Passwords are a – for the most part – necessary evil in our connected lives. There has to be a way to know that you are you in a transaction, and a piece of information that only you and your counterpart know about seems…
More LXSS
Regarding the previous post about running Linux processes on Windows, I have noticed a few common questions and the corresponding answers at various places on the Internet.…
Microsoft-bashing
After my previous posthttps://opinionmachine.wordpress.com/2016/03/26/desktop-os-for-developers/, Microsoft and Canonical reacted almost immediately – ahem – and on the //BUILD/ conference the Windows Subsystem for Linux…
Desktop OS for developers
The results of the latest StackOverflow Developer Surveyhttp://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016 just came out, showing – among other interesting things – that Windows is dying as a developer OS. Not one t…
Salvation through a bad resource
Me and a colleague have been struggling for some time deploying an IIS website correctly using chef. As you may be aware, chef is used to describe the desired state of the configuration of a system through the use of res…
How to hire devs for a small project
Do you have a smallish bit of programming type work you need done? You are thinking of either hiring somebody or getting contractors in? There are several pitfalls that you could experience and not all of them are the fa…
Tech stuff for non-technical people
This is not a deeply technical post. Even less technical than my other ones. I write this inspired by a conversation on Twitter where I got asked about a few fairly advanced pieces of technical software by a clever but n…
Getting back into WPF
These last couple of weeks I have been working with a Windows desktop app based on WPF. I hadn’t been involved with that in quite some time so there was some trepidation before I got stuck in.…