A couple of weeks ago, I sat down to talk Agile with Phil Japikse, Stephen Bohlen, and Lee Brandt and their podcast called Hallway Conversations. We spent an hour getting down to basics with Agile. We talked about how companies are getting into Agile practices, measuring progress, tools, doing things “right”, and much more. It […]
I recently ran into an issue with one of my applications that uses Azure Active Directory authentication. The application was working properly and all of a sudden, one day we got this error: WIF10201: No valid key mapping found for securityToken: ‘System.IdentityModel.Tokens.X509SecurityToken’ and issuer: ‘https://sts.windows.net/a66eec53-81f8-482f-a572-c9ba46f14c5d/’. After a lot of search around, I finally found a […]
This weekend I’m heading down to South Florida Code Camp to cover some of my favorite topics. This is a great event that just keeps getting bigger and better every year and I really enjoy going down there. My talks are: 8:30 am – Git with the Program: Succeeding with Version Control Git is a […]
I released an update to one of my Pluralsight courses: Git for Visual Studio Developers. It now includes two new modules covering Pull Requests and CodeLens. Since the course was initially released in December of 2013, Microsoft released updates to TFS 2013 and they continue to update Visual Studio Online frequently (usually every 3 […]
Call for Speakers is open for our 10th Annual Orlando Code Camp to be held on Saturday, March 28th. Last year we had over 625 attendees, with over 50 speakers and 72 sessions. This event keeps getting bigger and better every year and what better way to spend your Saturday in late March than in […]
When you first connect to a Git Repository in Visual Studio, you are going to be defaulted to cloning the Master remote branch. But what if you want to work on a different branch? You’ll need to clone that branch before you start working on it. If you look at the branches tab in Team […]
This week is Computer Science Education Week. Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. To support these two events, this Thursday afternoon Orlando Tech Association partnered with the City of Orlando to put together Hour of Code events at 4 local middle schools. I approached Orlando […]
I really enjoy using Git and thanks to all the built-in functionality in Visual Studio, using it on a daily basis is a great experience. Unfortunately not all Git commands are in the IDE yet, so when I need to do something outside of Visual Studio, I go to command-line. Before you can use the […]
Tomorrow, November 20th, I will be speaking at Azure Cloud DevCamp event at the Microsoft Tampa office. This is a fantastic event. I presented at the Fort Lauderdale stop a few weeks ago and had a blast doing so. My session will cover Data (SQL, Blob, Big Data w/ HD Insight). Come and learn how […]
Among one of the many exciting changes released by Microsoft last week was TFS 2013 Update 4. This update includes new lightweight charts that you can access from the Test hub of the TFS Web Portal. The reports provide you with snapshot and trend charts for test cases and test results. Just like other […]