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2026

• 06-09 Bipolar Disorder, Dysregulation & AI My AI Native DevCon London talk on what living with bipolar disorder taught me about regulation, and how those same patterns show up in AI-native engineering.
• 03-04 Agentic Engineering Protocols: The Ralph Wiggum Loop Using the Ralph Wiggum Loop for iterative cleanup tasks at scale
• 02-11 Agentic Engineering Protocols: Intro and Superpowers A review and summary of popular Agentic AI orchestration protocols for software development
• 01-16 AI26 - The Anthropic Skill Supply Chain Attack A demonstration of a potential supply chain attack using Anthropic Skills, hijacking access to AWS accounts, model providers and more.

2023

• 05-05 A ChatGPT Extension to Create Diagrams A ChatGPT Extension to Create Diagrams
• 04-29 Semantic Versioning, Conventional Commits and Release Pull Requests for .NET with Google's Release Please Project Learn how to use the excellent 'release-please' tool to automate release management in .NET projects

2022

• 09-25 A simple Makefile 'help' command A simple Makefile 'help' Command

2021

• 04-23 Building Least Privilege Policies with the AWS Policy Advisor - and a Demo with the Serverless Application Framework Building Least Privilege Permissions in AWS using Serverless Framework as an example

2020

• 09-05 Unit Testing the Windows Registry Unit testing the Windows Registry can be challenging - this article shares a few tips on how to make it easier.
• 07-01 Modernising .NET projects for .NET Core and beyond! In this article I'll describe how to modernise your .NET Framework projects for .NET Core, the .NET Standard and .NET 5, which is planned to be released this year.
• 06-04 Observations, tips and tricks for the CKA certification Observations, tips and tricks for the CKA certification
• 05-17 Supercharge your Java Projects with Conventional Commits, Semantic Versioning and Semantic Releases How to use Conventional Commits, Semantic Versioning and Semantic Release for Java
• 01-21 Effective Shell for Beginners Effective Shell now has a whole new section just for beginners - it is also now running as an online book!

2019

• 12-24 Migrating from Ghost to Hugo - Why Bother?
• 06-25 Effective Shell Part 7: The Subtleties of Shell Commands
• 06-10 Effective Shell Part 6: Everything You Don't Need To Know About Job Control
• 05-21 Effective Shell Interlude: Understanding the Shell
• 03-11 Effective Shell 4: Move Around!

2018

• 12-11 Dynamic and Configurable Availability Zones in Terraform
• 10-10 A portable and magic-free way to open Pull Requests from the Command Line
• 10-08 Manipulating Istio and other Custom Kubernetes Resources in Golang
• 07-29 Procedural Smiles - Animating SVG with pure JavaScript
• 07-24 Patching Kubernetes Resources in Golang
• 05-16 mongo-monitor - a simple CLI to monitor your MongoDB cluster
• 01-12 The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018

2017

• 12-19 Effective Shell Part 3: Getting Help
• 10-29 Integrating OpenShift and Splunk for Docker Container Logging
• 10-10 Effective Shell Part 2: Become a Clipboard Gymnast
• 06-11 Effective Shell Part 1: Navigating the Command Line
• 05-25 A utility to help you wait for ports to open
• 04-03 Tips and Tricks for Beautifully Simple Mobile App CI
• 02-02 Get up and running with OpenShift on AWS
• 01-09 Creating a Resilient Consul Cluster for Docker Microservice Discovery with Terraform and AWS

2016

• 11-18 Using Slack for Server Development
• 11-03 Simple Continuous Integration for Docker Images
• 10-27 Run Amazon DynamoDB locally with Docker
• 09-03 Effective Node.js Debugging
• 06-03 Testing the Docker for Mac Beta
• 06-01 Is it worth persevering with Golang?
• 06-01 What's your Vim Name?
• 05-03 Quick Tip: Sending Newlines with cURL
• 04-25 Moving from React + Redux to Angular 2
• 04-19 Learn Docker by building a Microservice

2015

• 09-07 Getting Started with React & ES6
• 03-24 Manipulating JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)
• 03-18 The Best Module System for AngularJS Applications
• 03-16 Failures Connecting from Elastic Beanstalk servers to MongoDB on EC?
• 03-03 Fixing Memory Leaks in AngularJS and other JavaScript Applications

2014

• 06-16 The Only AngularJS Modal Service You'll Ever Need
• 05-07 Practical AngularJS Part 2 – Components of an AngularJS Application
• 05-07 Practical AngularJS
• 05-07 AngularJS Promises - The Definitive Guide
• 05-05 Better Specifications
• 05-05 Blogging with Ghost
• 05-03 Practical AngularJS Part 1 – Introducing AngularJS
• 03-30 Managing Vsix Deployments with Powershell
• 02-19 Practical AngularJS Part 2

2013

• 12-15 Langton's Ant in Javascript
• 11-28 A great read for JavaScript newcomers
• 11-25 Introducing Practical AngularJS
• 11-21 Space Invaders on the CodeProject
• 09-15 SharpShell 2.0
• 09-02 ConsoleControl and Happy Coders
• 08-25 Space Invaders in JavaScript
• 08-24 Introducing Experiments
• 07-16 Node.js and Express - Strange Http Status Codes
• 07-10 Recursive read lock acquisitions not allowed in this mode
• 06-27 Context Menu for Trello
• 06-24 Visual Studio Deployment Projects - an Update
• 06-19 Web Deploy - Could not connect to the remote computer
• 06-18 Build Buttons for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, GitHub and More!
• 06-12 WPF and Visual Studio Addins
• 06-05 Introducing Sil
• 05-13 Creating Addins - 'An error occurred, and the wizard could not generate the project.'
• 05-02 Getting Paths for Files in NUnit Tests
• 03-11 Introducing FireKeys
• 02-25 Spider Solitaire and Augmented Reality
• 02-16 Switch Updated
• 02-16 The Visual Studio Experimental Instance
• 01-14 Creating Info Tip Handlers with .NET
• 01-08 SharpShell

2012

• 12-30 SharpGL 2.1
• 12-15 Visual Studio Extensions and Menu Subitems
• 12-09 XPath Studio - First Cut
• 12-02 Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2012
• 11-26 Goodbye BlogEngine.NET, Hello WordPress
• 07-29 The GAC Manager
• 06-21 Changing Merge/Compare Tools in TFS
• 06-18 Go Offline Extension for Visual Studio 2010
• 05-15 Apex Part 2 - Adding Commands to an MVVM Application
• 04-23 Apex Part 1 - Getting Started with the Apex SDK
• 04-19 Come on MS - Improve MFC
• 04-16 Could not load file or assembly 'System.Windows, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e' or one of its dependencies.
• 04-13 Create Item Templates in Visual Studio
• 02-28 Embedding a Console in a C# application
• 02-24 Disabling Constraints with a Stored Procedure in Oracle
• 02-22 SharpGL 2.0
• 02-21 Using imp or exp as a SYSDBA
• 02-08 Debugger:: An unhandled non-continuable exception was thrown during process load
• 02-04 Switch
• 01-31 New Namaste Website
• 01-18 Funky WPF - Enumerations and the Combo Box
• 01-17 CodeProject MVP
• 01-04 Downtime

2011

• 11-30 Extending Visual Studio Part 1 - Code Snippets
• 11-28 How to Debug a Visual Studio Extension
• 11-27 Composite Data Service Framework on CodeProject
• 11-14 Getting Source Code Metrics from SVN
• 11-09 IDataServiceMetadataProvider Entities Missing in $metadata
• 11-09 Composite Data Service Framework
• 11-02 Data Service Exception "Unauthorised" when connecting to Sharepoint OData
• 11-02 The "Name attribute is invalid" when adding a Service Reference to a Sharepoint OData Service
• 11-01 Apex 1.2 Released
• 10-29 MVVM Commanding
• 10-24 MVVM: Asynchronous Commands
• 10-10 SharpGL 2.0 Beta 1 Released
• 10-06 CodeProject Competition
• 09-30 Drawing a DIB Section in WPF
• 09-24 Importing OpenGL Extensions Functions with wglGetProcAddress
• 09-20 Visual Studio Code Analysis - Buffer Overruns
• 09-18 How ISupportInitialize Can Help
• 09-13 SharpGL 2.0: Hardware Acceleration
• 09-12 P/Invoke Performance
• 09-12 Trials and Tribulations with SharpGL 2.0
• 09-12 Solitaire and Spider Solitaire on the CodeProject