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    10 Beautiful Software Development Haikus

    In my day job I send a lot of very routine emails announcing new deployments or pleading with people to fix the continuous build. I’ve started to amuse myself by sending them as haikus (3 line poems with 5, 7…

    Posted on Tim Brown
    Development Operations

    Conditional Deployment with WIX

    Often when deploying an application you need guaranteed access to a certain area of the file system. This can change depending on the OS. The challenge is to produce an msi that can detect that and supply the correct values….

    Posted on Tim Brown
    Development Operations

    Deleting from Team Foundation Server

    It’s non-obvious how to delete items from Team Foundation Server. Things can be removed from the web interface or from team foundation explorer but they can lurk around still and bother you. It’s surprising difficult to delete. These are the…

    Posted on Tim Brown

    Hello World. I'm a software developer in Brisbane, Australia. I currently work with Node.js, React and AWS but I used to do a lot of development in the Microsoft stack as well.

    I tinker round with code in my spare time the results of which sometimes end up on GitHub. I am a wholly owned subsidiary of a 12 year old daughter who invented the concept of 'on demand'.