DST - Code of Matt

Five Common Daylight Saving Time Antipatterns of .NET Developers

It's 2015, and Daylight Saving Time is just around the corner. For most of North America, the clocks will "spring-forward" on Sunday, March 8th, stealing an hour of precious time from our daily routine. A few weeks later, the same thing will occur in much of Europe on Sunday, March

Azure

Windows Azure Scheduler

Microsoft announced today a new managed service for Windows Azure: The Windows Azure Scheduler. This is basically an enterprise job scheduler, such as Quartz.net, but operated as a simple managed web service. Basically, you can set up a job that will run once or periodically, and it will either

JavaScript

JavaScript Date type is horribly broken

JavaScript dates have always been a bit funny. As a .Net developer, there was a bit of a mind-shift for me, because they are inherently different than types like DateTime or DateTimeOffset. But I won't spend too much time on what they are not, lets just talk about what they