Recently I installed the Github for Windows App. It’s a great app, however, I’d rather not use it for the day to day interactions I have with Git. I have a lot of branching, forking and merging to do that just doesn’t happen to well with the app. It’s a great app, but overall I’m... Continue reading →

Open Source Software (OSS), Why Some Fail At It OSS has won the war. It has been over for years now. Microsoft has ceded, Oracle, VMware and many others have stepped up and attempted to embrace the open source community. Sometimes they’ve been successful, sometimes they haven’t. They’re slowly changing their models to play well... Continue reading →

The Iron Foundry Team are big advocates of open source software. We write code across all sorts of languages, just like many of the development shops out there do. Sometimes we’re heavy on the .NET, other times we’re all up in some Java, Ruby on Rails, spooling up a Node.js Application or something else. So... Continue reading →

NOTE: All of this code is available at my Github Project “Remembering” ( https://github.com/Adron/Remembering ). Feel free to fork it, share it, or send me corrections or pull requests. While working on the Thor Project there have been numerous situations where I need to fire off an asynchronous callback in C# while maintaining good responsiveness... Continue reading →

It started like this. string responseValue; if (null == vcapResponse) { responseValue = message; } else { responseValue = vcapResponse.Description; } return responseValue; …and after a few alt+enter hits… return null == vcapResponse ? message : vcapResponse.Description; I ended up with that beauty. Oh yeah. 🙂 …and for today, … Continue reading →