@FieldMetrix

A small growing company with an easy-to-use mobile data capture solution for businesses with field sales and service technicians. Monitor work progress.

 Cape Town, SA
fieldmetrix.com
Joined February 2010
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Rick Strahl
@RickStrahl25 Jun 2019
What's on your External Tools menu in #visualstudio? Here's an older post that shows how to hook up external apps and shortcuts: weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2…
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Kelly Vaughn
@kvlly5 May 2018
The best debugger ever made is a full night's rest.
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Sam Tucker@SamtimeNews20 Oct 2017
Apple Fanboy in Crisis Over Surface Book 2 youtu.be/ZB7zOPk1bWY
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Notice to all JS frameworks - if step one is to install a CLI and 'wizard' the boilerplate, you've lost me.
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My city... beautiful from every which angle. #CapeTown
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TechCrunch
@TechCrunch27 Apr 2016
DeWalt - yes, the drill maker - gets into the mobile business with rugged MD501 smartphone tcrn.ch/1TxcQRt
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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror3 Apr 2016
Also, 100% true story. When I was stressed out working on SO, I would look at Jon Skeet's profile pic to calm down. This really happened.
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Jon Skeet@jonskeet3 Apr 2016
Ooh, time for 15 minutes of fame: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34…

Jon Skeet: The 'Chuck Norris' of programming

An unassuming programmer from Reading has become a minor celebrity on the internet, the "Chuck Norris of programming" who has helped thousands of people with their computing needs.

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Xamarin@xamarinhq31 Mar 2016
Developers, rejoice! #Xamarin is now included in Visual Studio at no extra cost, and will be open source: xmn.io/xamarin-for-all #Build2016
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Microsoft is buying mobile-tool vendor Xamarin for an undisclosed amount: zdnet.com/article/microsoft-…

Microsoft is buying mobile tool vendor Xamarin - ZDNET

In a move many have been anticipating, Microsoft is buying mobile tool maker Xamarin for an undisclosed amount.

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Xamarin will be joining Microsoft! We are bringing our love of C#, F#, TestCloud to millions more! blog.xamarin.com/a-xamarin-m… – at San Francisco, CA
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This GIF illustrates why your phone camera takes weird photos of spinning propellers. xitter.cf/GiveMeInternet/status/…
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So how is this massive write-off of the Nokia deal help convince developers to write apps for Windows Phone?
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PHP CEO@PHP_CEO29 Apr 2015
THE DAYS ARE LONG, BUT THE DECADES ARE SHORT UNLESS YOU’RE WRITING JAVASCRIPT IN WHICH CASE BOTH DAYS AND DECADES ARE NaN
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This is probably the highest-density article on software development I've ever read. Every word is true. henrikwarne.com/2015/04/16/l…

Lessons Learned in Software Development

Here is my list of heuristics and rules of thumb for software development that I have found useful over the years:   Development 1. Start small, then extend. Whether creating a new system, or …

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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror13 Apr 2015
Rob Pike's 5 rules of programming users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/…
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Joel Spolsky
@spolsky7 Apr 2015
Results of our massive 2015 developer survey stackoverflow.com/research/d…
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Thinking that the desktop will go away soon is in the same category naive as thinking Linux will take over said desktop anytime soon
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Refactoring explained: i.imgur.com/bXTAYRm.gif #sometimes
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Like a Good Scotch, Developers Get Better With Age shawnw.me/1gA77sX >> Ironically, the best developers drink scotch /cc @richcampbell
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