Learning All the Things
Category: Technology

9
Apr
Developer Humor: Eight Bytes Walk Into a Bar
Technology

So one of the coolest things I get to do at my office is be super creative and try out some neat new projects. One of the things I did recently was outsource some graphic design work, including this comic. Here’s the comic and the post that went along with it…. ’cause it’s all awesome. […]

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3
Apr
I’m Sorry, What? I’m on MSDN AGAIN?! AHH!
Technology

No, really. This is seriously crazycool. I’ll keep it short. Check It. BOOM. Guess it wasn’t a fluke the first time? Questions/Comments? Feel free to comment here on my blog, or find me on Twitter @DokiDara. By Dara Monasch

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2
Apr
Creating Scrum Tools for Project Tracking with Diverse Teams (Part 0)
Technology

In my excitement to present you all with my amazing sparkline discovery, I definitely jumped ahead in how everything in my tracker came together on my Scrum Board. Thus, this post backtracks a bit and will cover how exactly I pulled the TFS data into my Excel document (using Pivot Tables), so that I could […]

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27
Mar
Getting Featured on MSDN – WHAT?!
Technology

This happened about a month ago, but I never had a chance to react to it… When I wrote this post about Creating Scrum Boards and Sparklines with TFS Data, I really just thought I was writing about this little niche topic that was kind of interesting to me, but probably not to many other […]

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25
Feb
Creating Scrum Tools for Project Tracking with Diverse Teams (Part 1)
Technology

AKA Why Are We Talking About TFS, Excel, and Dynamic Named Ranges? Part of my role as a Technical Project Manager for the Product Development team here at Infragistics is to assist with dissemination of information for all of the products and teams that I work with. In many cases, this involves organizing data from […]

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20
Feb
Dallas Days of Dot Net – Hey, Texas!
Technology

Preparations Approximately one day after I returned home from my inaugural tech conference, CodeMash (Sandusky, OH), my marketing department mentor let me know that I’d be shipping off again in a month(!). This time, I was headed to Dallas, TX for the Dallas Day(s) of Dot Net … in February! C’mon, you know that any […]

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12
Feb
My First Tech Conference: CodeMash in Retrospect
Technology, Travel

Preparations As I mentioned briefly in my first post, I have the most amazing role here at Infragistics, where I have the opportunity to assist in various departments in a variety of ways, based on the company’s needs. I’m currently assisting the Marketing Department at Infragistics, and one of the areas I’ve been itching to […]

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5
Feb
Casting Variables in C (No, You’re Not Just Bad at Math!)
CS50x, Technology

Warning: I always assume that every error in my programming occurs because I am terrible at math. You can therefore imagine my shock and excitement when I learned that one of my very first errors was NOT due to my lack of mathematical prowess. So without further ado, Casting Variables in C… What *is* Casting? […]

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