Professor Beekums

JANUARY 22, 2017

Evaluation of developers is an important topic for anyone involved in software development. Many developers care a great deal about career growth or raises at the very least. Managers need to be able to justify decisions around promotions and raises. Ideally, developers would be rewarded based on the amount of value they provide to a business. It’s a simple concept: you make the company more money, the company pays you more money.

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The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 23, 2017

Recently I was prototyping an application in NativeScript with Angular, but was feeling too lazy to set up the Angular Router to do multiple page navigation. Typically when I run into this scenario I use the prompt dialog, but this time I needed something more than data input. This lead me to the modal dialog. With the modal dialog I can create a popup with pretty much anything on it and when I close it I can pass data back to the parent view.

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Mobile Development 52

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 22, 2017

In the previous episode of “ Simple Changes to Shrink Chrome ” I discussed how deleting ‘const’ from a few key locations could lead to dramatic size savings, due to a VC++ compiler quirk. In this episode I’ll show how deleting an inline function definition can lead to similar savings. The savings this time are less important as they are mostly in the.BSS segment, but there are also some modest code-size savings, and some interesting lessons.

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C++ Code Systems Processing 56

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 26, 2017

I’m a huge Sherlock Holmes fan (I’ve read all the books, watch Elementary on CBS every week, and loved the most recent season Four of Sherlock) so when I recently got a question about some unexplained behavior for SQL Server, I thought of the idea of posting some of these as I get and solve them in the form of a blog series titled SQL Server Mysteries (#sqlmystery).

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J. Paul Reed

JANUARY 24, 2017

I mentioned last week I’d have 2017 predictions for you… well, last week. But many of us were distracted on Friday it seems, so I saved them for this week. So, what do I think 2017 will have in store for us? Prediction #1: DevOps Will Be Declared 1.0-STABLE This prediction was originally published in a larger T echBeacon piece on 2017 DevOps predictions.

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The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 27, 2017

I’ve been all about websockets lately. Up until recently RESTful APIs have been my whole world, but they don’t accomplish everything and what they do accomplish may not be the best fit. Not too long ago I got my Onion Omega2 Internet of Things (IoT) device with a bunch of accessories and I’ve been playing around with them non-stop. Previously I had written about displaying system information on the OLED expansion , but I wanted to take it to the next level and display data received through a web

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 24, 2017

In my last post I highlighted the marriage of PE and ELF images within the same process space to build SQL Server on Linux. In this post I will expand upon the dbgbridge component, as mentioned by Slava in his latest channel 9 video. The dbgbridge (Debugger Bridge) is a critical component in the SQL Server on Linux evolution. A year before I joined the development team I worked on the supportability aspects of SQL Server on Linux.

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