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Stages of Exception Handling Maturity
Exceptions always seemed weird to me. Why would I want to catch an exception, when with proper coding they shouldn’t occur in the first place? I felt at first like exceptions were designed into the...
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Announcing Audio Assist – The Future of Debugging!
Today I’d like to share a little something I’ve been working on for Visual Studio. Audio Assist is a powerful new Visual Studio extension designed to enhance developer productivity while debugging. By...
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Building Audio Assist
Audio Assist is a fun, silly plugin for Visual Studio. I’ve had a number of people ask me to open source the code, and maybe explain a little bit of how it’s put together. Despite my reservations about...
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Simple Marquees In Windows Phone
I’ve been breaking into Windows Phone app development lately. The platform is awesome, the technology is a joy to work with, and I’m convinced that Windows Phone will continue to gain market share and...
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Getting Started and Being Effective with C# 5.0 Async Operations
Lately I’ve been developing Windows 8 applications, and as a result I’ve been immersed in the new C# 5.0 language features. The new async and await keywords are awesome, taking almost all of the pain...
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My Perfect Web Application
I’ve built a number of web-things during my career. They have spanned the domains of elegance and quality, some projects ended up being abominations to all that is good, and others turned out alright....
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Lessons Learned from Writing ADC Libraries
I love the challenges that embedded devices present. They come with an environment that lacks the abstractions we enjoy when programming for modern desktop and mobile platforms. A lot of the time it’s...
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A Commit a Day
It’s a little preemptive but I think I’m going to set a New Year’s Resolution for myself. This past year I set out to read a ton of books. As a result I’ve grown a ton as a developer. The books I read...
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HiJack for Android, Written in C
One of the major projects I’ve worked on while at the University of Michigan has been HiJack, a peripheral that plugs into the audio port of a mobile phone, harvests energy, and provides a channel of...
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Implementing ISupportIncrementalLoading in Windows 8
I’m a big fan of UI surfaces that load content on demand. When a list-based control loads more items asynchronously as I near the bottom of a list I smile, it makes my life a little better. When it’s...
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