Steve Michelotti

I love Trello [https://trello.com/] and it seems like I use it for everything. Whether it's a project for work, a side-project on my own, a personal To Do list, or planning a family vacation - I probably have a Trello board for it. Although the built-in Search for Trello is pretty solid, sometimes it just doesn't give me what I want. For example, since I have so many different boards, I often want to be able to see all of the cards that are in my "Doing" lists across all boards. To accomplish t...

In an effort to make my blog suck less [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BlogInteresting32WaysToKeepYourBlogFromSucking.aspx] , I figured it was time to get onto a modern blogging platform. I've been blogging for over 10 years and was getting frustrated at the lack of control I had over my current blog engine. Add the fact that Google is now giving priority to mobile-friendly sites [http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/11/helping-users-find-mobile-friendly-pages.html] , and it was clear...

Swagger [http://swagger.io/] has quickly established itself as an important tool for building Web API's for any platform. Swagger enables interactive documentation and client SDK generation/discoverability. One of the most frequently used Swagger tools is Swagger UI [http://swagger.io/swagger-ui/]. Swagger UI provides automatically generated HTML assets that give you automatic documentation and even an online test tool. To see Swagger UI in action, check out their demo page [http://petstore.swag...

A few weeks ago I was one of the presenters for the Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference [http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualconference.aspx]. All of the videos for the conference have recently been published to Channel 9 [https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MVP-Virtual-Conference/MVP-Virtual-Conference-Americas-2015] . There were many great talks at this virtual conference and I encourage you to check them out [https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MVP-Virtual-Conference/MVP-Virtual-Conference-America...

I love the new Visual Studio Code [https://code.visualstudio.com/] editor/IDE. It's fast, simple, lightweight, and an overall pleasure to work with. I love being able to just "open a folder" and work with files directly – all while getting great intellisense. One feature that is particular interesting to me is the ability to run Tasks [https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/tasks] from the IDE. These tasks can be anything from running gulp commands, to MSBuild, to most anything you can think of. Gi...