31 October 2022

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Scrum, agility and the human factor

I've been working in Scrum teams for 15 years now, give or take. Different companies, different approaches, from loosely following the agile principles to a stricter implementation of the Scrum method

Occson

Store, manage and deploy application configuration securely with Occson.

A map for every journey

It's damn nice to know where you are, and where you're going.

Spooky Masks and Async Exceptions

Everyone loves Haskell because it makes concurrent programming so easy!forkIO is great, and you’ve got STM and MVar and other fun tools that are pleasant to ...

The Ocean is Not Full

Seeking flow state on the foil in the first week of September, a reflection on the pursuit of an open-faced wave.

Don't specialize, hybridize

Specialization is too heavily encouraged as a career path.

Halloween Q&A | Ask me anything | C# & .NET

Support the stream: https://streamlabs.com/nick_chapsasCheck out my courses: https://nickchapsas.comBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://www....

On .NET Live - .NET Tricks and Treats

It's Halloween, so the hosts of On .NET Live are bringing the tricks and treats! We're going to show you some of our favorite fun tips, tricks, and demos. Yo...

Cool features in Visual Studio 2022

A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation at a conference about cool new features in Visual Studio 2022. It was a pre-recorded presentation, so I was able to do final edits to the video before sending it to the conference organizers.

Episode 444 - Azure Innovations

The team gets together with Mark Eisenberg, Cloud Solutions Architect and frequent guest on the podcast, to analyze the various Innovations in Azure that were announced my Mark Russinovich at the recent Ignite conference. The discussions range from data center…

Resize images before uploading in Blazor Web Assembly

So, you allow users to upload images to the server from your Blazor WASM app, but you want to constrain the actual dimensions of the image for some reason. Rather than ask the user to edit the image prior to uploading, you decide to to take care of applying …

Pasting text without formatting - Gérald Barré

In this post, I describe how to paste text without formatting in common applications and in any Windows application since Windows 11 22H2.

Microsoft Introduces Azure Savings Plans for Compute

Microsoft recently announced Azure Savings Plans for Compute, providing customers with an easy and flexible way to save significantly on compute services compared to pay-as-you-go prices by committing to spend a fixed hourly amount for one or three years.

330: Twitter, Metaverse, USB-C, App Store Ads... OH MY!

It is that time of the podcast where we do lighting topics! This time we are covering upgrading iPhone, Twitter takeover, the next social/metaverse platform, USB-C standards, and Apple's Ads on the App Store.

F# Advent Calendar in English 2022

F# Advent Calendar is a long tradition in the F# community F# Advent Calendar in English: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 F# Advent Calendar (in Japanese): 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 20…

A developer’s guide to containers - Architect.io

In recent years, containers have become an integral part of software development. A good grasp of containers and what they do is essential for most developers. If containers still make you feel like, “I kinda know what containers are, but I’m still pretty fuzz…

The Perfect Commit

For the last few years I’ve been trying to center my work around creating what I consider to be the Perfect Commit. This is a single commit that contains all …

Structured error messages for HTTP APIs

Ever since I started to work on the Apache APISIX project, I’ve been trying to improve my knowledge and understanding of REST RESTful HTTP APIs. For this, I’m reading and watching the following sources: Books. At the moment, I’m finishing API Design Patterns. …

The Price of Games [Grab Bag]

It's Grab Bag time again!As someone who has worked on plenty of large-scale game projects over the years, I often wonder... Why do games today cost nearly th...