http://codecube.net/ Software Engineer at Xamarin. Founded ONETUG. Author of 'C# 5 First Look' http://amzn.com/1849686769. en-us https://codecube.net/2025/7/how-work-kept-changing/ In 2013, I wrote a post about how work was changing—a snapshot of what felt like the beginning of a broader shift. Remote work was still a bit of a curiosity for many companies but growing, side pr... Joel Martinez 2025-07-21 2025-07-21 https://codecube.net/2025/7/powershell-from-csharp-updated/ While checking my analytics recently, I noticed that an old post of mine from 2009 was still getting hits. It was a little helper class I had put together to run PowerShell scripts from a C# app. A... Joel Martinez 2025-07-16 2025-07-16 https://codecube.net/2025/7/team-series-size/ There’s something electric about a tiny team… everyone’s on the same page, decisions happen in a hallway chat, and the work just seems to fly out the door. Whether you’re two engineers knocking out... Joel Martinez 2025-07-14 2025-07-14 https://codecube.net/2025/7/nlweb/ I was somewhat intrigued when I learned about NLWeb at Microsoft's Build conference. It's an open-source project from Microsoft that introduces a protocol for making websites more accessible to AI ... Joel Martinez 2025-07-10 2025-07-10 https://codecube.net/2025/7/team-series/ There’s a certain magic that happens in the right team, at the right time. I’ve seen it a few times in my career... whether it was a small crew at a fintech startup building trade settlement system... Joel Martinez 2025-07-07 2025-07-07 https://codecube.net/2025/6/ai-race/ A quick thought as I scan the AI landscape: the early gold-rush chaos has started to settle into predictable lanes. Most products and services now fall into clear categories, and a couple of names ... Joel Martinez 2025-06-26 2025-06-26 https://codecube.net/2025/6/starving-artists/ It's an unfortunate truth that the more connected to someone's passion a job seems to be (artist, filmmaking, game development, musician, etc), the less financially rewarding and stable the career ... Joel Martinez 2025-06-24 2025-06-24 https://codecube.net/2025/6/ai-deviant-behavior/ The other day my smart speaker piped up ... thinking I had said the trigger word when I'd done nothing of the sort. Reflexively I snapped, "shut up, Alexa.". In that moment I was chattin... Joel Martinez 2025-06-16 2025-06-16 https://codecube.net/2025/6/domestic-manufacturing/ This is probably one of the most important videos Smarter Every Day has posted. He doesn't shy away from talking about a lot of the complexities of a global economy ... and also about the catalyst ... Joel Martinez 2025-06-09 2025-06-09 https://codecube.net/2025/6/ai-hype/ Not everything in AI right now is as new as it sounds. Every week there’s a fresh term making the rounds ... “agentic workflows,” “context engines,” “MCP servers.” But when you peel it back, most o... Joel Martinez 2025-06-05 2025-06-05 https://codecube.net/2025/5/brewmite/ Sometimes life gives you weirdly unique opportunities. I wrote about my experience being in a beer commercial recently on LinkedIn (cheekily, in "Linkedinfluencer" style), which I've repr... Joel Martinez 2025-05-27 2025-05-27 https://codecube.net/2024/1/copilot-for-azure/ Taking a moment to update here about Microsoft Copilot for Azure (Ask Learn... Joel Martinez 2024-01-15 2024-01-15 https://codecube.net/2023/7/what-ive-been-up-to-since-2020/ The last few years have been ... interesting, for lack of a better term. After basically checking out from social media, in about July of 2020 when the world starting dealing with pandemics, lockdo... Joel Martinez 2023-07-09 2023-07-09 https://codecube.net/2023/7/back-online/ Well ... it's been entirely too long, but if you're reading this I'm BACK ONLINE! Technically, the site has never been offline, but the deployment pipeline was mistakenly deleted sometime in 2021. ... Joel Martinez 2023-07-04 2023-07-04 https://codecube.net/2020/7/clarity/ There's a lot of things going on in the world today ... it feels like we've lived 10 lifetimes in the last 3-4 months. All of the above left my mind in almost a literal cloudy haze ... it was almos... Joel Martinez 2020-07-08 2020-07-08