Being an MVP
I’ve been a Microsoft “Most Valued Professional,” or MVP, for a long time now. So long that I had to actually go look up when I was first got the award (2002). Over those years, the program has...
View ArticlePadarn: Dynamic Authentication
Our Padarn Web Server largely uses a subset of the IIS object model, so for many features and capabilities how you do things in IIS is paralleled in Padarn. Authentication follows that rule, but with a...
View ArticleMemory Management in the Compact Framework
Way back in 2006 I presented a talk on Memory Management in the Compact Framework. Well the CF for the CF, at least up through 3.5, is no different than it was back then and the content from that talk...
View ArticleShould You Develop Software for Free?
I just read an excellent opinion piece over on the New York Times site. I’d recommend you read it, but if you’ve not got the time, or are generally just too lazy, let me summarize. The author is, not...
View ArticleOur New Cross-Platform Build, Test, Store and Deploy Architecture
First, let me preface this by saying no, I’ve not migrated any Compact Framework application to Visual Studio 2013. We’re still using Visual studio 2008 for CF apps, so don’t get too excited. That...
View ArticleLots of ORM Updates
We use the OpenNETCF ORM in the Solution Family products. Unfortunately I haven’t figured out a good way to keep the code base for the ORM stuff we use in Solution Family in sync with the public code...
View ArticleUsing Jenkins to Build from Git without the Git plug-in
A few months ago we decided to upgrade our source control provider and moved everything over to Visual Studio Online. It’s been working great for source control, though getting used to using Git...
View ArticleOpenNETCF ORM Updates: Dream Factory and Azure Tables
We’ve been busy lately. Very, very busy with lots of IoT work. A significant amount of that work has been using the Dream Factory DSP for cloud storage, and as such we’ve done a lot of work to make...
View ArticleOpenNETCF Scanner Compatibility Library
Some days I think I have too much code “lying around”. As you would expect from many years as a developer, I have utility libraries for all sorts of tasks. Generally when I think something is likely...
View ArticleNew Open Source Projects
I’m working on a new application that’s going to be open source. Once it’s a bit further along I’ll provide more details, but essentially it’s a paperless forms solution that encompasses a WPF desktop...
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