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7 Jul 2024

We ran a half day event for a relatively new team that I'm managing, and one of the sessions I walked our group through was a Code Review…

9 Mar 2024

Three and a half months into my Monzo journey, I successfully passed my probation 🎉 I’ve been asked several times what the experience so…

1 Jan 2024

I joined Evernote on December 1st, 2011. For many years, it served as my second brain, a scratchpad for ideas, a service I relied on to help…

26 Nov 2023

Note: I'm not a lawyer, and your mileage may vary when following steps in this post - but I'm sharing what I found helpful earlier this year…

11 Nov 2023

We have liftoff! Through a whirlwind of documents, training modules, people to meet, context to understand, more training, account setup…

22 Oct 2023

I'm starting a new job in a few weeks time, and my new workplace uses Go (aka Golang). As an engineering manager, I don't expect to write…

13 Oct 2023

Previously, I wrote about "Recharge" as an employee benefit, having worked at - but I didn't always intend to…

4 Sep 2023

This website is now running on Gatsby, a static website generator. Microsoft is shortly retiring the VM type that my website used to run on…

18 Jul 2023

I used to write blog posts quite frequently — on .NET, C#, Azure, and other Microsoft technologies. But the last one was on

15 Jan 2018

I've been working on some bulk processes lately, and this error popped up on occasion, which at first glance was quite confusing - but a…

13 May 2015

I don't know if this is a very common scenario, but I wrote some code earlier in the week to add a bunch of messages to a Service Queue: Que…

3 Feb 2015

Also known as "Why is my ViewModel returning null values to my HttpPost action?" The answer is at the very bottom if you feel like skipping…

4 Sep 2012

Need to print a ticket, document or something else? While it's not particularly English friendly, it turns out that you can actually print…

30 Dec 2010

In an InfoPath form I've been working on, I've used the Validating event to attach some code to do some more complex validation (ie…