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Feature Flags

Oct 22, 2025 · 2 min read · I am very pleased to share that my development teams are making good use of the Azure App Configuration Feature Manager. The teams were already familiar with simple on/off flags. We had previously been using LaunchDarkly, but we retired it to reduce ...

Make Your Staff Meetings Memorable with This Prize Idea

Aug 12, 2025 · 2 min read · I host monthly staff meetings for my direct reports. The agenda is the usual managerial stuff. We talk about upcoming events at the company, policy changes, training deadlines, etc. At the bottom of my agenda, I always include a “Life-Altering Prize”...

Good Ol' Switch Statements

Aug 5, 2025 · 2 min read · Switch statements have been around since the early days of programming. In fact, the structure is identical across C-style languages. switch (variable) { case 1: // Some code here break; case 2: // Some code here ...

Pipelines and Testing

Jul 10, 2025 · 4 min read · In about mid-2024, I directed my team to remove the Postman test execution step from the Azure pipelines we used. The company decided to move away from a paid Postman plan so we had to decommission Postman. It was a cost-saving measure that I was dis...

Minor Rant Against AI Marketing

Jul 3, 2025 · 2 min read · At this point, it seems well-established that “AI” and “artificial intelligence” are arguably not the same thing anymore. Large Language Models (LLMs) have dominated the conversation and the hype has been massive. AI has come to equal LLM which has l...