David Wesst

Creativity, Code, and Curiousity.

Posts

  • Looking Forward into 2016

    DW documents and shares his planning session for 2016 based on what he’s learned from 2015.

  • Highlight Reel for 2015

    David Wesst takes a moment to look back at his personal and professional development throughout 2015.

  • Code – The Visual Studio for Everybody

    Last week I delivered three presentations: one at the Winnipeg .NET User Group and the other two at Winnipeg Code Camp. Being as awesome as we are, the user group presentation was recorded and has been published on the YouTube page

  • Inspiration From MVP Summit 2015

    I’m back from the summit and have had a week to digest everything I saw. And now I will share with the top three topics that really stuck with me.

  • My Favourite Online Dev Tools

    I’m talking about online or web-based tools, not toolboxes. So entire development suites like Cloud9 or Visual Studio Online are off the table because they are full tool suites. These tools are simple, but continually help me out in a pinch.

  • Using Java Build Script Tasks in Visual Studio Code

    I previously shared how I setup a custom problem matching in Visual Studio Code for compiling Java and displaying the errors inline with a custom problem matcher.

  • Custom Tasks for Java in Visual Studio Code

    Now that I’m a Java Developer, I no longer worry about the bloating feeling I get when I need to open up the original Visual Studio. Now I worry about opening another instance of Eclipse. Don’t get me wrong, Visual Studio and Eclipse are both great tools, but there are plenty of times where I…

  • Capture HTTPS Traffic in Java with Eclipse, and Fiddler

    I’ve been struggling with a JSON parsing error where my application is using the Spring to send and receive messages from a RESTful Web Service. It’s pretty straight forward: I’ve annotated my object properties to match up with the appropriate JSON keys, Spring takes my POJO and turns it into a JSON string sends the…

  • Downgrading Windows Phone 10 Technical Preview – The Lowlights

    I have to say that I really did like the Windows Phone 10 technical preview. I think that the new phone OS is heading the right direction, and that if you have a secondary device or want to be _”hardcore”_ , you should install it and check it out.

  • Western Devs (and MVP) Found My Spirit Animal

    What you’re looking at is a lobster, in a ditch, drinking scotch, whose mouth is on fire. That is my spirit animal that was created on the Twitter-verse through the power of the Western Devs, which I would not be a part of had I not become an Microsoft Edge MVP with Microsoft.