<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Christopher Maneu — Notes</title><description>Long-form notes on tech, cloud, and software craft.</description><link>https://maneu.net/</link><language>en-US</language><item><title>Not Every Forward Deployed Engineer Is Actually an FDE</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/not-every-forward-deployed-engineer-is-actually-an-fde/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/not-every-forward-deployed-engineer-is-actually-an-fde/</guid><description>What distinguishes forward-deployed engineering from implementation consulting: turning customer experience into product improvements through access, contribution, and feedback.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What kind of writer are you? Copilot can tell</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/what-kind-of-writer-are-you-copilot-can-tell/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/what-kind-of-writer-are-you-copilot-can-tell/</guid><description>Using Copilot to analyze personal writing and create a reusable voice guide, with concrete constraints for technical language, structure, multilingual differences, and humor.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Where&apos;s Zoé? - How to support accents and diacritics in Fabric Data Agents</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/wheres-zoe-how-to-support-accents-and-diacritics-in-fabric-data-agents/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/wheres-zoe-how-to-support-accents-and-diacritics-in-fabric-data-agents/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2026-16 - Interesting reads</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/2026-16-interesting-reads/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/2026-16-interesting-reads/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Practical tips to manage your inbox</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/practical-tips-to-manage-your-inbox/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/practical-tips-to-manage-your-inbox/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Best practices for Azure SQL Serverless and Fabric Databases</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/best-practices-for-azure-sql-serverless-and-fabric-databases/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/best-practices-for-azure-sql-serverless-and-fabric-databases/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rebuilding My Blog - Don’t Wait Until It’s Finished to Make It Happen</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/rebuilding-my-blog---dont-wait-until-its-finished-to-make-it-happen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/rebuilding-my-blog---dont-wait-until-its-finished-to-make-it-happen/</guid><description>Rebuilding a blog without waiting for perfection, and using Outlook, Azure Functions, and GitHub Actions to publish Markdown notes directly from email.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Get your SQL Server dev environment ready in one click</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/azure-sql-server-dev-environment-one-click-devcontainers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/azure-sql-server-dev-environment-one-click-devcontainers/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deploy Meilisearch on Azure in One Click</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/deploy-meilisearch-on-azure-one-click/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/deploy-meilisearch-on-azure-one-click/</guid><description>A blazing-fast search engine hosted in seconds.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>archive</category></item><item><title>Deploy Blazor WebAssembly apps to Azure Static Web Apps</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/deploy-blazor-client-apps-with-azure-static-apps/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/deploy-blazor-client-apps-with-azure-static-apps/</guid><description>Azure Static Web Apps is a new service that allows you to easily deploy your Static web apps. As I&apos;m working on a little Blazor Client App (with WebAssembly), It seems perfect to host it on Azure Sta…</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>blazor</category><category>webassembly</category><category>deploy</category><category>azure</category></item><item><title>#julyot Devs, Learn the basics of IoT Solutions this month!</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/julyot-learn-basics-iot-solution-episode-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/julyot-learn-basics-iot-solution-episode-1/</guid><description>Hey Fellow developers,</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>iot</category><category>learn</category><category>stream</category></item><item><title>#Tip Use local Azure Storage emulator in Remote Containers</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/use-local-storage-emulator-remote-container/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/use-local-storage-emulator-remote-container/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>methodology</category></item><item><title>How to track your productivity with Pomodoro?</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/how-to-track-productivity-pomodoro-2019/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/how-to-track-productivity-pomodoro-2019/</guid><description>Pomodoro is a great productivity technique. But is it really efficient for you?</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>methodology</category></item><item><title>How to change Dotfuscator serial when the subscription is expired</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/how-to-change-dotfuscator-serial-when-the-subscription-is-expired/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/how-to-change-dotfuscator-serial-when-the-subscription-is-expired/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Powershell to slack</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/powershell-to-slack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/powershell-to-slack/</guid><description>Since few months, I&apos;m using Slack within my team. It&apos;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&apos;m building a lot of little internals tools, I&apos;ve a bunch of powershell scripts…</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>.net performance: Truths &amp; tips</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/-net-performance-truths-tips/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/-net-performance-truths-tips/</guid><description>A recommended guide to .NET performance, covering boxing, strings, asynchronous code, LINQ, and lambda allocations.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 16:14:28 GMT</pubDate><category>archive</category></item><item><title>Supercharge your PowerShell with Scoop</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/supercharge-your-powershell-with-scoop/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/supercharge-your-powershell-with-scoop/</guid><description>I&apos;m currently investigating few subjects that include spending some time in a PowerShell shell (like &apos;advanced&apos; git usage, puppetization of my Windows Dev machine, ...). and I&apos;m still missing few things from nix shells.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Discover Deezer for Windows 8</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/discover-deezer-for-windows-8-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/discover-deezer-for-windows-8-2/</guid><description>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…</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Custom domain with outlook.com, it’s easy !</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/custom-domain-with-outlook-com-its-easy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/custom-domain-with-outlook-com-its-easy/</guid><description>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…</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How reduce energy consumption with Microsoft Products</title><link>https://maneu.net/notes/how-reduce-energy-consumption-with-microsoft-products/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/notes/how-reduce-energy-consumption-with-microsoft-products/</guid><description>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…</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>