Google do a lot of good things. They host free webfonts to make the web a nicer place to be. Their cloudy PaaS service, Engine Yard, gets rave reviews. Their maps are better than anyone’s, their mobile OS is the most popular in the world, and their photo hosting offer is Continue Reading
aspnetcore.dll failed to load. The data is the error
This morning, while trying to debug our big ol’ web project in Visual Studio 2015 I encountered a problem – it held me up for a while so I wanted to quickly blog about the solution in case it hits you too. When hitting F5 to start debugging, Chrome launched Continue Reading
Things I learned at my last job
Today I closed a chapter in my life. After nearly 4 years tenure at a company I wanted to reflect on the things I learned over that time. I have been very lucky to have a few excellent – world-class even – mentors here who have taught me things that will Continue Reading
The Sharing Economy
The ‘Sharing Economy’ is disrupting established industries and sending huge, powerful incumbents into a tizzy. Uber and AirBnB have shaken the taxi and hotel sectors, shifting power, control and profits from the RadioCabs and Hiltons of this world and into the hands of ordinary citizens armed with nothing more than a Continue Reading
Introducing QuickModules for ASP.NET MVC
Like you I often spend my weekends writing REST APIs for fun. And like you I am often frustrated by the amount of server-side code I need to write just to expose some data to JavaScript. Boilerplate, boilerplate, boilerplate. Ugh! So this weekend, in between bouts of erratic and unsatisfying Continue Reading
“The Format of the PE Module is Invalid” After VS2012 Update 2 Installed
If you’re a Windows stack developer and you’ve just installed the VS2012 Update 2, which came out last week, you may have suddenly started to see this beautifully impenetrable error message whenever you try to debug a web project: “Unable to launch the configured Visual Studio Development Web server. Unable Continue Reading
Windows Blue
There has been much press this week about Microsoft’s new annual-update programme for its Windows operating system, purported to be called “Windows Blue”. This has been mostly driven by the leak of an early copy of Blue onto file sharing websites. WinSuperSite’s Paul Thurrott gives the best overview. As well Continue Reading
Learn to Code (An Intermission): Code.org
The founders of Facebook, Microsoft, Dropbox, Twitter and many more top tech companies have provided their voices and recognisable fizzogs to this latest video from Code.org. Code.org promotes the principle that nobody is born with the ability to code, or play basketball, or drive a racing car: it is a Continue Reading