Nerdmarks

A collection of nerdy articles & videos

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Adds Xunit dynamic skipping of facts and theories.

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To master PowerShell, you must know how to use XML. XML is an essential data interchange format because it remains the most reliable way of ensuring that an object's data is preserved. Fortunately, PowerShell makes it all easy, as Michael Sorens demonstrates.

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Powershell: Your first internal PSScript repository

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Powershell: Building a Module, one microstep at a time

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pho·ny also pho·ney (fō'nē) adj. pho·ni·er, pho·ni·est 1. a. Not genuine or real; counterfeit: a phony credit card. b. False; spurious: a phony name.

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Retaining technical talent has long been and remains a challenge. Here I talk from the perspective of a programmer about how to keep your best programmers.

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Enough is enough. We've gone from labor being an equitable contract to the beggar CEO asking for more and more labor for nothing. Time to stop it.

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This an excellent, generic solution for redirecting all http traffic to https.

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Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

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Here's Why [Insert Thing Here] Is Not a Password Killer

These days, I get a lot of messages from people on security related things. Often it's related to data breaches or sloppy behaviour on behalf of some online service playing fast and loose with HTTPS or passwords or some other easily observable security posture. But on a fairly regular basis...

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Though I wrote most of the words in this post, there are a few people outside of interviewing.io whose work made it possible. Ian Johnson, creator of d3 Building Blocks, created the graph entitled Standard Dev vs. Mean of Interviewee Performance (the one with the icons) as well as all the...

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The other night, I was remembering what might have been my most impressive performance in the interview process. What makes this performance particularly...

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F*** You, I Quit — Hiring Is Broken – Sahat Yalkabov – Medium

Disclaimer: This is a story about my interview experience in the tech industry. No personal names will be used to preserve anonymity. The…

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I read a post the other night, with the premise (and title) "hiring is broken." I agree. And, where others want to fix it, I ask, why bother?

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The Myth of Developer Productivity

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Please don’t learn to code

There’s an idea that’s been gaining ground in the tech community lately: Everyone should learn to code. But here’s the problem with that idea: Coding is not the new literacy. We live in an ultra-competitive world, with people turning to all sorts of methods to make ends meet. Selling coding as a...