Jason Rowe

Be curious! Choose your own adventure.

Thoughts on technology and leadership

  • The most dreaded technology

    The 2015 Stack Overflow developer survey results are published and this year the most dreaded technology was Salesforce. If you are getting started with Salesforce as a developer don’t panic. I’ve recently completed a large integration project and I’ll try to highlight some of the things I’ve learned along the way. I’m not an expert […]

  • Simple Flower Petal Geometry

    I recently wanted to make a She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not Game using JavaScript and SVG. My requirements were: 1) Support a random number of petals. 2) The petals should be clickable. Turns out these two requirements make for some fun JavaScript and Geometry. Here is an image of what I was going […]

  • Introduction to Git using VS tools from Microsoft

    A quick introduction to Git version control system and Visual Studio Tools from Microsoft. Links in the video git-scm.com try.github.com tortoisegit VS2012 Git Plugin gitextensions

  • Terminal Alias Setup for XCode Embedded Compiler

    Warning: The following is mostly unnecessary tinkering To get a handle on Objective C using Mac OS, I wanted a simple way to compile from the terminal. A quick search made me realize that the LLVM compiler is not accessible via the terminal. You can download it via XCode -> Preferences -> Downloads. But when […]

  • ReSharper Introduction

    I’ve used ReSharper for 2-3 years and decided to share my experience with it by creating an introduction video. Most of the information is from http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ with some additional input and comments.

  • Testing WCF Soap Messages Using Fiddler

    The following is how I generate test soap requests for .Net WCF services and work with them in Fiddler. This comes in handy when I want to see how the service is responding to HTTP header changes. The great thing is once you get the request into Fiddler you can change the request body or […]