One trait of successful user groups is don't play calendar roulette. Meaning: they chose a time or day each month to hold the group meeting. We meet every 2nd Tuesday. or We are the last

65 tests I have just hit a personal record when it comes to writing unit tests. A measly 65 unit tests. I've always noticed that there are three types of developers: those that never test, those

As a user group leader, you might have this feeling that you need to get sponsors for your user group. This is a common feeling! In fact, it's one of the most common questions I get as the

Update 1: Brandon pointed out a mistake in my math. Adjusted to reflect his comments. This is one of those posts that I have been meaning to write for a long time. As a consultant, I often find

On some recent work I was doing with Winsitter, I needed an approach that would systematically remove documents after a specified period of time within MongoDB. Previously, I would have written cron

When you're suggesting business decisions for a client, think about it this way: If you were to flip the roles, would you take the advice you are offering? Simply put: when I recommend tools,

Sometimes when you install a NPM package, you'll run into an issue like this: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V110\Microsoft.Cpp.Platform.targets(35,5): error MSB8020: The builds

I've had bit of a day, and a large part of it was learning how to wrangle SignalR into using my dependency injection provider (in this case, being Unity).  There are a couple thoughts, that I'd like

For a lot of JavaScript developers that are moving over from traditional "browser" development to node.js, they might be casually aware of the require keyword that node.js provides you. If you're

Every time I create a new Git repo, I always have to go look for a previous copy of my .gitignore file.  I thought it would be a great idea to just post it up for all to find, in case they were