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Guest Blog Post: First Day of Work Experience (2014)

Guest Blog Post: First Day of Work Experience (2014)

Howard van Rooijen

Jack, 15, is spending two weeks at endjin doing work experience. In this post he describes his experience of his first day.
End of Month Research Roundup – June 2014

End of Month Research Roundup – June 2014

Howard van Rooijen

We have a culture of sharing information at endjin; here are our highlights of interesting content shared in June 2014.
Designing for television: food safe props for The Great British Menu 2014

Designing for television: food safe props for The Great British Menu 2014

Paul Waller

Throughout endjin's history we have been invited to work on a host of projects. In late 2013 we were asked if we could produce a series of graphics props for the Great British Menu 2014. In this post we talk about the research and production methods behind developing graphics for television.
Using Git for .NET Development: Part 4 - Resolving Merge Conflicts

Using Git for .NET Development: Part 4 - Resolving Merge Conflicts

Alice Waddicor

How do you resolve GIT merge conflicts? Can Visual Studio help you at all? What are the best tactics?
Button Visual States in Xamarin.iOS

Button Visual States in Xamarin.iOS

Pascal Arnould

One way to manage a button visual state in iOS is by setting a different background image for each one of the UIControlState values available...
End of Month Research Roundup – May 2014

End of Month Research Roundup – May 2014

Howard van Rooijen

We have a culture of sharing information at endjin; here are our highlights of interesting content shared in May 2014.
Event stream manipulation using Rx – Part 2

Event stream manipulation using Rx – Part 2

Richard Kerslake

Having described the problem space using Marble Diagrams, it's now time to create a real solution using Rx and the Observer pattern to process data from Windows Event Log.
End of Month Research Roundup – April 2014

End of Month Research Roundup – April 2014

Howard van Rooijen

We have a culture of sharing information at endjin; here are our highlights of interesting content shared in April 2014.
Event stream manipulation using Rx – Part 1

Event stream manipulation using Rx – Part 1

Richard Kerslake

This blog post delves into using Rx to process the messages received from Windows Event Logs, so that they can be shaped in a way that is useful to us to consume.
Understanding dependency injection

Understanding dependency injection

Alice Waddicor

What is Dependency Injection? How does it help you develop software? Why should you use it? Is it a silver bullet for creating loosely coupled components?
Getting started with semantic logging

Getting started with semantic logging

Richard Kerslake

Implement semantic logging on Windows & .NET for richer diagnostics & analysis. Learn how Reactive Extensions enable powerful scenarios in this series.
End of Month Research Roundup – March 2014

End of Month Research Roundup – March 2014

Howard van Rooijen

We have a culture of sharing information at endjin; here are our highlights of interesting content shared in March 2014.
A Step by Step Guide to Connecting to an Azure Virtual Machine with PowerShell Remoting

A Step by Step Guide to Connecting to an Azure Virtual Machine with PowerShell Remoting

Howard van Rooijen

Learn how to use PowerShell Remoting to connect to an Azure Virtual Machine; a useful technique for managing servers like cattle, not pets.
Azure Tip: Cannot connect to Virtual Machine after changing Virtual Machine Size

Azure Tip: Cannot connect to Virtual Machine after changing Virtual Machine Size

Howard van Rooijen

A quick tip on fixing a 'remote desktop could not connect' error on Azure Virtual Machines.
Building an Epic Dev Rig for less than £1600 (2014 Edition)

Building an Epic Dev Rig for less than £1600 (2014 Edition)

Howard van Rooijen

In this post, we show how we created bespoke gaming desktops to provide an excellent developer workstation for endjineers.
Using Git for .NET Development: Part 3 – branching and pushing your changes

Using Git for .NET Development: Part 3 – branching and pushing your changes

Alice Waddicor

How do you created branches in GIT? How do you push your changes to a remote server? How does Visual Studio help?
Using Git for .NET Development: Part 2 – basic operations and tools

Using Git for .NET Development: Part 2 – basic operations and tools

Alice Waddicor

How do you get started with GIT? How do you install it? What are the basic commands? How does Visual Studio help you?
Configuring TeamCity and YouTrack to use Office 365 for Email Notifications

Configuring TeamCity and YouTrack to use Office 365 for Email Notifications

Howard van Rooijen

This post shows how to use your Office 365 SMTP relay to enable email notification from TeamCity and YouTrack hosted in Azure.
End of Month Research Roundup – February 2014

End of Month Research Roundup – February 2014

Howard van Rooijen

We have a culture of sharing information at endjin; here are our highlights of interesting content shared in February 2014.
Using Git for .NET Development: Part 1 – What is Git?

Using Git for .NET Development: Part 1 – What is Git?

Alice Waddicor

What is GIT? Why should you use it as a .NET Developer? How do you incorporate it into your workflow? How does Visual Studio help?
Apprenticeship Week 2 – Getting Started with Behaviour Driven Development

Apprenticeship Week 2 – Getting Started with Behaviour Driven Development

Alice Waddicor

Delving a little deeper into Behaviour Driven Development and Specification by Example.
Apprenticeship Day 5

Apprenticeship Day 5

Alice Waddicor

Day 5 includes more behaviour driven development with SpecFlow, talking to a real customer over a working lunch, and thinking about evidence-based decision making.
Apprenticeship Day 4

Apprenticeship Day 4

Alice Waddicor

Day 4 includes a code review, performance optimisations, an introduction to behaviour driven development and mocking.
Apprenticeship Day 3

Apprenticeship Day 3

Alice Waddicor

On her 3rd day, Alice starts writing some code, and uses the Argotic framework to process some RSS and ATOM feeds.
Apprenticeship Day 2

Apprenticeship Day 2

Alice Waddicor

On her second day, Alice is given a deep dive into the commercial side of the business.