Articles and notes by Christopher Maneu on tech, cloud, and software development.https://maneu.net/en-UShttps://maneu.net/articles/engineering-for-continuity-the-exit-packet/https://maneu.net/articles/engineering-for-continuity-the-exit-packet/Design work so it can continue without you. Engineering for Continuity and the Exit Packet preserve decisions, operational knowledge, relationships, and momentum before a handover is needed.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTmanagementhttps://maneu.net/notes/not-every-forward-deployed-engineer-is-actually-an-fde/https://maneu.net/notes/not-every-forward-deployed-engineer-is-actually-an-fde/What distinguishes forward-deployed engineering from implementation consulting: turning customer experience into product improvements through access, contribution, and feedback.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://maneu.net/articles/2026-github-stars-paper/https://maneu.net/articles/2026-github-stars-paper/GitHub stars are easy to count, easy to compare, and easy to misuse. So, how to truse OSS projects?Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTopen-sourcegithubdevrelhttps://maneu.net/notes/what-kind-of-writer-are-you-copilot-can-tell/https://maneu.net/notes/what-kind-of-writer-are-you-copilot-can-tell/Using Copilot to analyze personal writing and create a reusable voice guide, with concrete constraints for technical language, structure, multilingual differences, and humor.Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://maneu.net/notes/wheres-zoe-how-to-support-accents-and-diacritics-in-fabric-data-agents/https://maneu.net/notes/wheres-zoe-how-to-support-accents-and-diacritics-in-fabric-data-agents/Why a Fabric Data Agent can miss Zoé when searching for zoe, how accent-insensitive SQL collations help, and when a normalized column is better for performance.Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://maneu.net/notes/2026-16-interesting-reads/https://maneu.net/notes/2026-16-interesting-reads/Notes on an agent-built C compiler, the role of testing and tooling in autonomous software development, and why language-model benchmarks should reward uncertainty.Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://maneu.net/notes/practical-tips-to-manage-your-inbox/https://maneu.net/notes/practical-tips-to-manage-your-inbox/A practical email routine built around an inbox that fits on one screen, separate external and CC inboxes, color coding, snoozing, and a daily email budget.Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://maneu.net/notes/best-practices-for-azure-sql-serverless-and-fabric-databases/https://maneu.net/notes/best-practices-for-azure-sql-serverless-and-fabric-databases/Practical ways to use Azure SQL Serverless and SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric: auto-pause, caching, connection settings, wake-up monitoring, user feedback, and delayed writes.Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://maneu.net/notes/rebuilding-my-blog---dont-wait-until-its-finished-to-make-it-happen/https://maneu.net/notes/rebuilding-my-blog---dont-wait-until-its-finished-to-make-it-happen/Rebuilding a blog without waiting for perfection, and using Outlook, Azure Functions, and GitHub Actions to publish Markdown notes directly from email.Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://maneu.net/notes/azure-sql-server-dev-environment-one-click-devcontainers/https://maneu.net/notes/azure-sql-server-dev-environment-one-click-devcontainers/Learn how to use Visual Studio Code and GitHub Codespaces to launch an Azure SQL/SQL Server dev environment in one click, thanks to Devcontainers.Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://maneu.net/notes/deploy-meilisearch-on-azure-one-click/https://maneu.net/notes/deploy-meilisearch-on-azure-one-click/A blazing-fast search engine hosted in seconds.Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://maneu.net/notes/deploy-blazor-client-apps-with-azure-static-apps/https://maneu.net/notes/deploy-blazor-client-apps-with-azure-static-apps/Azure Static Web Apps is a new service that allows you to easily deploy your Static web apps. As I'm working on a little Blazor Client App (with WebAssembly), It seems perfect to host it on Azure Sta…Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMTblazorwebassemblydeployazurehttps://maneu.net/notes/julyot-learn-basics-iot-solution-episode-1/https://maneu.net/notes/julyot-learn-basics-iot-solution-episode-1/Hey Fellow developers,Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMTiotlearnstreamhttps://maneu.net/articles/interview-developers-remotely/https://maneu.net/articles/interview-developers-remotely/Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on UnsplashWed, 08 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTremotemanagementinterviewhttps://maneu.net/notes/use-local-storage-emulator-remote-container/https://maneu.net/notes/use-local-storage-emulator-remote-container/I LOVE Remote Development Extensions for Visual Studio Code. It allows me to simply pack all my technical stack in one docker container, while getting me everything I need to run and debug things.Mon, 09 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMTmethodologyhttps://maneu.net/notes/how-to-track-productivity-pomodoro-2019/https://maneu.net/notes/how-to-track-productivity-pomodoro-2019/Pomodoro is a great productivity technique. But is it really efficient for you?Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTmethodologyhttps://maneu.net/articles/2016-challenges-behind-releasing-windows-10-app/https://maneu.net/articles/2016-challenges-behind-releasing-windows-10-app/This summer, we’ve removed our “preview” tag from our Windows 10 Universal app. We wanted to share a few things we’ve done between our first line of code and todayThu, 22 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://maneu.net/articles/2016-07-making-recuitment-process-agile-retrospective/https://maneu.net/articles/2016-07-making-recuitment-process-agile-retrospective/For any growing startup, recruitment is challenging, time-consuming, costly and risky. That’s why we work closely with our dedicated technical recruitment team to improve how we handle the recruitmen…Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://maneu.net/articles/developpeurs-surveillez-votre-poids/https://maneu.net/articles/developpeurs-surveillez-votre-poids/What if the best way to increase downloads of your application was to lose weight? Measuring and reducing the size of the Deezer Windows Phone app.Thu, 05 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://maneu.net/notes/how-to-change-dotfuscator-serial-when-the-subscription-is-expired/https://maneu.net/notes/how-to-change-dotfuscator-serial-when-the-subscription-is-expired/Right now, PreEmptive Dotfuscator Pro is the only obfuscation software that works with Windows Phone, Windows Store and universal apps. So, I use it from time to time.Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://maneu.net/articles/introducing-loghash-a-better-way-to-log/https://maneu.net/articles/introducing-loghash-a-better-way-to-log/A case for adding simple, portable semantics to plain-text logs, and an introduction to LogHash, a Markdown-like markup language for logging.Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://maneu.net/notes/powershell-to-slack/https://maneu.net/notes/powershell-to-slack/Since few months, I'm using Slack within my team. It's a chat on steroids for teams. One of the neat feature of Slack is the Integration with online tools like GitHub, Crashlytics, Jenkins, Pingdom, Stripe and more. As I'm building a lot of little internals tools, I've a bunch of powershell scripts…Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://maneu.net/articles/my-xaml-coding-guidelines/https://maneu.net/articles/my-xaml-coding-guidelines/XAML files are where I spend the most of my coding time. Sometimes, they can get quite messy. In C, we do have plenty of coding guidelines and standards, like:Mon, 12 May 2014 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://maneu.net/notes/-net-performance-truths-tips/https://maneu.net/notes/-net-performance-truths-tips/A recommended guide to .NET performance, covering boxing, strings, asynchronous code, LINQ, and lambda allocations.Fri, 09 May 2014 16:14:28 GMTarchivehttps://maneu.net/notes/supercharge-your-powershell-with-scoop/https://maneu.net/notes/supercharge-your-powershell-with-scoop/I'm currently investigating few subjects that include spending some time in a PowerShell shell (like 'advanced' git usage, puppetization of my Windows Dev machine, ...). and I'm still missing few things from nix shells.Tue, 06 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://maneu.net/notes/discover-deezer-for-windows-8-2/https://maneu.net/notes/discover-deezer-for-windows-8-2/Few months ago, I had the opportunity to join Deezer Team to build apps on the Microsoft platform. After a little public preview of the app during Microsoft TechDays 2013 keynote (at 11m50s), Deezer for Windows 8 app is live , on the Windows Store (excluding United States, China, India and Japan, a…Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://maneu.net/notes/custom-domain-with-outlook-com-its-easy/https://maneu.net/notes/custom-domain-with-outlook-com-its-easy/Microsoft announced yesterday the brand new Outlook.com, a new public email service. With a sleek Metro UI, and new services, it’s worth trying it. But why if you want it for your custom domains ? Can we do this ? Yes, and it’s dead simple :). 1. Register for live for domains Go on http://domains.l…Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://maneu.net/articles/les-index-spatiaux-dans-sql-server-2012-sql-azure/https://maneu.net/articles/les-index-spatiaux-dans-sql-server-2012-sql-azure/Searching the world at lightning speed with spatial indexes, grid tessellation, and query tuning in SQL Server and SQL Azure.Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMTspatialhttps://maneu.net/articles/et-si-azure-mavait-permis-de-minscrire-freemobile-1/https://maneu.net/articles/et-si-azure-mavait-permis-de-minscrire-freemobile-1/Thinking through a million requests per minute, from DNS and caching to CDNs and Windows Azure, using the Free Mobile launch as a starting point.Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://maneu.net/articles/mishrareader-the-ux-proposal-1/https://maneu.net/articles/mishrareader-the-ux-proposal-1/For French readers / pour les lecteurs français : A partir d’aujourd’hui, certains de mes articles seront en langue anglaise. Ils ne seront pas forcément traduits en anglais. Je vais créer un flux pa…Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://maneu.net/articles/hyper-v-petit-tour-rapide-de-dynamic-memory/https://maneu.net/articles/hyper-v-petit-tour-rapide-de-dynamic-memory/How Hyper-V Dynamic Memory allocates RAM, coordinates the host and guest, and handles limits and priorities in the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 beta.Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:34:21 GMTarchivehttps://maneu.net/articles/enseigner-en-2010-quelques-outils-pour-vous-aider/https://maneu.net/articles/enseigner-en-2010-quelques-outils-pour-vous-aider/Mind mapping, screencasting, interactive classrooms, and other tools I use to teach technical subjects to students and professionals.Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMTarchivehttps://maneu.net/notes/how-reduce-energy-consumption-with-microsoft-products/https://maneu.net/notes/how-reduce-energy-consumption-with-microsoft-products/Nowadays, everyone can do something for the environment. This week Chris (another MSP) say some words about Microsoft Hohm, and Hitcher teach you how to “eco drive” with Microsoft Auto . Did you know that at least two new functionalities built in Windows Server R2 that will help you to protect the…Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT