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The software development industry continues its relentless march forward. In 2016 we saw new releases of popular languages, frameworks and tools that give us more power and change the way we work. It is difficult to keep track of everything that is new...

Here is my (mostly) comprehensive list of tools I use for development, either at home or work.  It’s like Scott Hanselman’s, but focused almost purely on development, with a couple of extras.  While you’re at it, go check his out.  All opinions are my...

One of the things I'm currently doing with a number of software teams is teaching them how to draw pictures. As as industry we've got really good at visualising the way that we work using things like Kanban boards and story walls, but we've forgotten...

Over the winter vacation I relaxed and spent time away from thinking about the startup fundraising process. I had a latent interest in Jekyll ever since Tom Preston-Werner (Cofounder of GitHub) created, released and wrote about it in Blogging Like a...

alvinashcraft shared this story from .NET Web Development and Tools Blog. This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with...