The Cloud is Driving Innovation Faster Than Ever
I've spent this week at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent [http://reinvent.awsevents.com/] conference listening to a wide range of companies share success stories around how cloud computing has transformed their business. Each of their stories, while unique, shares the same basic recipe: * Have an idea
Amazon WorkSpaces: Your PC Now Lives in the Cloud
Amazon gave us another sneak peek into the future this morning when they announced the release of Amazon WorkSpaces [http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/] during the AWS re:Invent conference keynote speech. AmazonWorkspaces is a workstation-as-a-service offering where you can provision a cloud-hosted "desktop" to use in all
Remote
Remote: Office Not Required [http://www.amazon.com/Remote-Office-Required-Jason-Fried-ebook/dp/B00C0ALZ0W/] is the new guidebook on how to enable remote work at your organization and thrive in a remote working environment. It requires a change in thinking about how work must get done, and provides practical advice on how it
How to Write Text to a CloudBlockBlob in Windows Azure Blob Storage
I found myself wanting to write some text to Azure Blob Storage using the new Azure SDK 2.0 [http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/downloads/]. Things are a little different here, all of the stream methods from previous SDKs have been replaced by UploadFromStream(). This makes things cleaner in the
3 Books Every Software Developer Should Have Already Read
Here are three books I feel are required reading for all software developers regardless of age, job title, or years of experience. The earlier you can get a hold of them, the better. Spoiler Alert: only one of these books specifically deals with writing code. Clean Code: A Handbook of
Missing Nuget Packages on TFS Build Server
This is a guest post from Scott Decker [http://scottndecker.com]. Our team recently migrated some client projects over from Team Foundation Server to Team Foundation Service (TFS). Connecting to TFS and porting the code presented little challenge. Once the builds were set up, we encountered the real trouble: missing
How to fix NuGet packages when upgrading .NET Framework
If you find yourself in the middle of upgrading the .NET Framework on your project, you may have encountered some errors letting you know that the project's associated NuGet packages need to be re-installed. Have no fear, you are almost done with your upgrade. Long gone are the
Board Games Improve Leadership and Decision Making Skills
In Inc.'s June 2013 issue [http://www.inc.com/magazine/june-2013.html] there is an interesting article about how board games help hone leadership and decision making skills [http://www.inc.com/magazine/201306/leigh-buchanan/games-and-leadership.html]. I was a bit skeptical at first, but there are some
Summer Reading: The First 90 Days
> The president of the United States gets 100 days to prove himself; you get 90. The actions you take during your first few months in a new role will largely determine whether you succeed or fail. The First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins is a classic piece of
Summer Reading: To Sell is Human
> Whether it's selling's traditional form or its non-sales variation, we're all in sales now. I just finished reading To Sell is Human by Daniel Pink as part of my summer reading list. This was a very interesting book with some serious implications to