How does an organization best achieve software quality?
Great question! But is quality even important? Is it possible? How do you know if you’ve achieved quality? Read More »How does an organization best achieve software quality?
alexdresko
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What is your definition of “done”?
Such a vital question in the software development world! “Doneness” is how you measure progress. And so it seems important that we should create some definition of the term. Read More »What is your definition of “done”?
Toastmasters for the software developer
In this video, I, or rather, RealCoder79, give a short speech at Greenville’s Metro Toastmasters about how Toastmasters can benefit software developers. Toastmasters, if… Read More »Toastmasters for the software developer
A Review of Devart’s Code Compare Diff Tool for Windows
Hi, my name is Alex, and I’m a power hungry software developer. Devart’s Code Compare diff tool for Windows is power. By our powers combined, I am a powerful software developer.
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On Powershell’s Desired State Configuration
I watched at least six hours of training videos covering DSC last night during the election coverage. DSC fascinates me. Originally, I was trying to solve a problem we have at Stark, but at this point, I’m having difficulting not thinking about how/where I can use DSC.Read More »On Powershell’s Desired State Configuration
RealCoder79 is dead to me now
Perhaps that’s an overly dramatic title. More than likely, you don’t even know what I’m talking about.
That’s because I have a little secret and today is the day that I kill that secret like a mean old meanie head.
On July 8, 2015, I quietly, secretly released a side project to the world… RealCoder79.Read More »RealCoder79 is dead to me now
Getting started with Aurelia on Windows 10
The video demonstrates what I had to go through to get Aurelia v0.10.1 working on Windows 10. It’s a pretty bad video, but you might learn something if you suffer through it.
Nothing to sugar coat here… The video below wasn’t properly planned and isn’t awesome in my opinion. But I’m releasing it anyway. Surely, it will help someone.
Ride the Dresko Wave
Is it possible to combine ASP.NET v5 (MVC 6) beta 7 with the Bootstrap 4 alpha and the jQuery 3 alpha?
Yes? And I’ve done it.
Would I recommend it?
No.
I basically started from a new Web Application project with the latest ASP.NET bits installed.Read More »Ride the Dresko Wave
Every day regular expressions
Was doing some work today that just happened to involve some very basic, but very power regular expressions, and decided to make a quick, unscripted… Read More »Every day regular expressions
Vstest says, “Path too long”? I fix.
A weird thing started happening on my TFS build server recently. When it came time to run the unit tests, the build would fail with:
The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters.
For reference, here’s the standard testing step that was failing.. Note the “Test Assembly” parameter.. Nothing out of the ordinary there.
So I dug in..Read More »Vstest says, “Path too long”? I fix.