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Why use a Macbook Pro as a Windows .NET Software Developer (Updated)
Update December 2016: Apple has released a new version of the MacBook Pro featuring the new Touch Bar feature. I do not recommend buying this model. Worse battery life Worse keyboard Touch Bar feature is pretty useless for Bootcamp or virtualization – you will miss the usual function keys USB-C only. Expect to spend 100s…
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East Village London E20 – Get Living London Review
Update: I’ve posted an updated review after being here for 18 months. The following is a review of my thoughts so far about living at East Village, the former Athlete’s Village at the 2012 Olympic Games. My landlord is Get Living London and this will be from the perspective of myself as someone I imagine…
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Starting the Tokyo .NET and Mono Users Group
The community around .NET in Tokyo is pretty hard to find, so I’ve decided to do something about it. The Tokyo .NET and Mono Users Group has it’s first meetup on July 15th at the Hobgoblin in Shibuya. RSVP on Meetup.com here. We’ll be starting talks and presentations from the following meetup. Join us if…
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.NET Live Coding Talk in London UK at Medidata
On December 5th, I delivered a live coding demo at Medidata’s UK office, going over some of the newer stuff for .NET Web Developers. It’s 48 minutes long and covers MVC5, VS2013, EF6, SignalR 2 and some other bits while I build a rudimentary Twitter clone called “MediTwit”. Nuget blew up about half way through…
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Open Sourcing “Cognition”
One of the perks of working in R&D at Medidata is “Innovation Time”. Twice a year, engineers get to spend two weeks building whatever they want. Ideally some of the things we build will go back into direct product development but if not, we are encouraged to open source the work. Fresh from attending Microsoft’s…
