It’s been over a year since I wrote An Omega Geek’s Guide to Learning PowerShell, and I thought it was about time, with all the recent  noise about scriptcs, that PowerShell should get some more love as it’s a much overlooked and misunderstood gem of the .NET and Windows ecosystem. When I announced in the office that [...]

As thought, by modifying our YouTrackSharp CreateUser method to use PUT instead of POST (and creating the Put method), this fixed the password issue and is now fully functioning. So one down! Next up was to try TeamCity and straight to C# and VS 2012 for this one as the REST API looked similar to [...]

Yesterday was spent out on site as we met with a client to discuss their PR/marketing strategy. Whilst marketing isn’t the first discipline that springs to mind when thinking about development, I saw yesterday how much of a integral part it can play in the success of a company/product/service. The process we went through involved [...]

Day 2 was met mainly with errors but was not in vain . We successfully managed to get the PowerShell script from yesterday to add a new user to YouTrack but without creating a password. There was another function found in the REST API to create new user with password but this was where we [...]

From engineer to endjineer. Having just graduated with my mechanical engineering degree, I now start my new journey into the technology sector as an apprentice here at endjin HQ. I will be posting regularly in this blog during my time here to document the apprenticeship process and my progress as a budding developer. Hopefully this [...]

First of all, I apologise for the length of this blog, but there’s some serious stuff to be said! The Machine that Changed the World by Womack, Jones & Roos This is a book that has been on my reading list for a few years and I finally got round to reading it a few months [...]

Agile is a double-edged sword! On the one hand, following a period of intense change, budget spend and organisational upheaval… your department will have quicker cycle times to market, be more predictable operationally, produce higher quality software, have better working relationships with its customers and will be more adaptive to changes of business objectives and [...]

A few weeks ago Geoffrey Smith, the Sharp Architecture Development Lead and I were invited onto .NET Rocks! to be interviewed about the Sharp Architecture project. After we talked about Sharp Architecture – the conversation lead on to other open source projects I’ve been involved with such as Templify and StyleCop for ReSharper. You can listen to the [...]

Anyone who follows me on Twitter will know that I love food. Cooking it, eating it, thinking about it… That industry has an above-average number of incredibly driven, creative, focused individuals who have a passion for what they do; the flair to do it; and, above all, the willingness to pass on that experience to [...]

I’ve always been surprised by the number of people within the technology sector, in particular the software development industry who don’t have a  traditional computer science background. Some of the most talented software developers I’ve worked with have university backgrounds in chemistry, astrophysics,  geography, marine biology, just not Computer Science and two of the most [...]