Disclaimer:I do some work as a subcontractor of the company behind OzCode and I’ll probably become an investor in OzCode, in other words, I'm so impressed with this tool that I'm going to put a significant (for me) chunk of my own hard earned cash behind it. OzCode is an extension for Visual Studio that adds all sort of debugging aids: It includes simple stuff like a better exception widow that makes it trivially easy to drill down to the exception base cause. Unbelievably useful stuff like search in in-memory data structures and the ability to easily see the contents of collections of...

It’s very easy to do simple things with JavaScript (like change this div when that link is clicked) especially with libraries like jQuery to help you, this is why in a lot of companies front end web development is handled by the most junior and unskilled developers in the company. JavaScript is actually a very capable dynamic language that borrows heavily from functional programing, add to this advanced JavaScript frameworks (like Angular) and you got yourself a very advanced and modern environment that uses all that dynamic and functional power. And with today’s “single page web apps” we...

The last post was about what happened in 2013, now let’s talk about the plans for 2014: yaTimer Time Tracking Software yaTimer is still my flagship product and will continue to be in very active development. Hopefully the great big update – version 3.0 – will finally be released this year. Giraffe Upload Photo Backup Software I will continue to support and fix bugs in Giraffe Upload but I don’t expect any major upgrades in 2014. I really like Giraffe Upload and use it myself but I have to admit that it is unlikely...