A technical record of what survived production.

.NET 11 RC1 Is Here. Is Your Upgrade Process Ready?

.NET · .NET 11 · Software Engineering · Architecture

Labor Day, Software Development, and the Work We Should Be Automating

Software Engineering · Leadership · Automation · Artificial Intelligence

CopyGitHubRepo v0.4.0: Migrating GitHub Pages Without Guessing

GitHub · PowerShell · Automation · Developer Tools

From Specification to System: How the AI Flywheel Became Four Projects

AI · AI Flywheel · Agentic AI · Software Engineering

Moving On After 28 Years at Concord

Leadership · Software Engineering · Career

CopyGitHubRepo v0.3.0: Keep the Releases, Leave the History Behind

GitHub · PowerShell · Automation · Developer Tools

CopyGitHubRepo v0.2.0: Preserving GitHub Releases During Repository Migration

GitHub · PowerShell · Automation · Developer Tools

Out With the Old, In With the New: Rebuilding Coding

Blogging · GitHub Pages · Jekyll · Markdown · Software Development

CopyGitHubRepo v0.1.0 Released to the PowerShell Gallery

GitHub · PowerShell · Automation · Developer Tools

Understanding What We Ask AI to Do

AI · Human Oversight · Leadership · Software Engineering

Copy GitHub Repo – Clean Snapshots Without Carrying History

GitHub · PowerShell · Automation · Developer Tools

AI Flywheel CLI for Python – Operating the Flywheel Safely

Python · AI · AI Flywheel · CLI

Testing the AI Flywheel Framework with Durable Evidence

AI · AI Flywheel · Testing · Software Engineering

AI Flywheel Framework – Turning the Spec into an Operating Model

AI · AI Flywheel · Framework · Software Engineering

AI Flywheel Spec – From Agent Loop to Compounding System

AI · AI Flywheel · Agentic AI · Software Engineering

All Progress Depends on the Unreasonable

Leadership · Change · Progress

Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) – Depend on Abstractions, Not Details

C# · SOLID Principles · Dependency Inversion Principle

Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) – Keep Interfaces Focused

C# · SOLID Principles · Interface Segregation Principle

Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) – Subtypes Should Keep Their Promises

C# · SOLID Principles · Liskov Substitution Principle

Open/Closed Principle (OCP) – Building for Extension, Not Modification

C# · SOLID Principles · Open-Closed Principle

Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) - Only one reason to change

C# · SOLID Principles · Single Responsibility Principle

Create better software by applying SOLID principles

C# · SOLID Principles · Open-Closed Principle · Single Responsibility Principle · Liskov Substitution Principle · Interface Segregation Principle · Dependency Inversion Principle

The CrowdStrike Outage Is a Reminder That Deployment Safety Matters

Software Engineering · Reliability · Deployments

.NET 8 Feels Like the New Normal

.NET · .NET 8 · Software Development

Countdown to New Year's with the Observer Pattern

Decorating the tree for Christmas

Design Patterns · C#

ChatGPT Looks Interesting

AI · ChatGPT · OpenAI

.NET 6 Feels Like the Version I've Been Waiting For

.NET · .NET 6 · C# · Microsoft

Twenty Years After September 11

September 11 · Remembrance

Six Months Into COVID

Covid-19 · Remote Work

eBay suspends my account

Sending Everyone Home

Covid-19 · Leadership · Remote Work

.NET Core 3.0 Might Finally Be Ready for My Existing Applications

.NET Core · .NET · C#

Microsoft Is Buying GitHub

Microsoft · GitHub · Open Source

.NET Core 2.0 Is Starting to Feel Ready

.NET Core · ASP.NET Core · .NET Standard

.NET Core 1.0 Has Arrived

.NET Core · ASP.NET Core · Microsoft

Validating your SSL certificate is properly installed for SMTP - POP3 - IMAP - HTTP

SSL · Linux

Installing Roundcube Webmail on BlueOnyx 5209

BlueOnyx · Roundcube

Microsoft Introduces Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code · .NET · Microsoft

Microsoft Just Announced Windows 10

Windows 10 · Microsoft · .NET

I Really Like Windows Phone

Windows Phone · Microsoft · Cortana · Zune

My favorite design patterns are Strategy and Factory Method

Free collection of EBooks for various Microsoft Technologies

Ebook

Windows 8 Hyper-V errors with "could not be started because the hypervisor is not running"

Hyper-V · Windows 8

Calling WCF Service using LINQPad

LINQPad · WCF

So I Guess Zune Is Becoming Xbox Music

Microsoft · Zune · Xbox Music

Running FSCK on an LVM (Logical Volume Manager) using Linux Rescue Disk

Getting LINQPad to read your applications App.Config settings

LINQPad

Creating custom EventLog source in windows azure

Azure

Installing OpenWebmail on BlueOnyx server

Ten Years After September 11

September 11 · Reflection

PlayOn Plugin - TECH.ED 2011

PlayOn Plugin - MIX 2011

Fix error: Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance.

SQL · Visual Studio

ASP.NET CustomValidator that validates multiple controls using both Server Side and Client Side scripting

Silverlight PivotViewer control released

ASP.NET MVC3 Preview 1 - Released Today

Bind DNS – Configuring multiple views on primary and secondary DNS servers

Reed Copsey, Jr presented Windows Forms to WPF with MVVM at last Seattle DOT Net User Group Meeting

Seattle DOT Net User Group Meeting - March 2010 Meeting : An Introduction to Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility

Visual Studio - CloudService app "Build fails" Unable to remove directory.

(MVP) Model View Presenter - Passive View

Seattle .NET User Group - January 2010 Meeting : SharePoint development in Visual Studio 2010

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials

HP MediaSmart Server is my favorite device for 2009

Automatically attaching VHD files in Windows 7 and Windows 2008

Seattle Dot Net User Group - Sept 9th 2009 Meeting - .NET Troubleshooting in a Production Environment

Seattle .NET User Group - July 8th 2009 Meeting - ASP.NET MVC Framework by Brad Wilson

The next Seattle.Net User Group meeting June 10th, 2009

Barcamp Seattle June 13th - June 14th 2009

Calling ASMX .net Web Service using jQuery

Code Camp coming to Portland May 30th, 2009 at Reed College

Compress and Decompress using .net framework and built in GZipStream

Replacing text in a stream after writing

Seattle .net dotnet user group

How do I open a file that is in use in C#?

Microsoft patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0

Understanding .NET Reference Types and Value Types

From Cobalt to BlueQuartz and now BlueOnyx

c# and vb.net preserving or persisting user settings user.config after upgrades

Microsoft released free Chart Controls for ASP.NET and Winforms

C# Traceroute using .net framework

CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

C# Ping

An update for the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is available

Cobalt/Sun FTP Archive

BlueQuartz not generating usage information for sites

ASP.NET - Ajax - Expression - LINQ - SQL Server - Webcasts

.NET 2.0 SP2 Installation - Were to find it

.NET

Design Patterns - Writing better software

Design Patterns

Object Oriented Design Patterns

Spawning multiple .NET delegates really slow

C#

BlueQuartz installing Mono

Mono

BlueQuartz add virus scanning to sendmail

Virus Scanning

BlueQuartz how to resync quota of system with GUI

Quota

BlueQuartz enabling SSL/TLS FTP Support

BlueQuartz · Secure Ftp