<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Christopher Maneu — Articles</title><description>Short posts on tech, cloud, and software development.</description><link>https://maneu.net/</link><language>en-US</language><item><title>Engineering for Continuity: The Exit Packet</title><link>https://maneu.net/articles/engineering-for-continuity-the-exit-packet/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/articles/engineering-for-continuity-the-exit-packet/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>management</category></item><item><title>Stars Are an Adversarial Metric: A Goal-Aware Credibility Model for Open Source Projects</title><link>https://maneu.net/articles/2026-github-stars-paper/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/articles/2026-github-stars-paper/</guid><description>GitHub stars are easy to count, easy to compare, and easy to misuse. So, how to truse OSS projects?</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>open-source</category><category>github</category><category>devrel</category></item><item><title>How YOU can interview developers remotely with Visual Studio Code?</title><link>https://maneu.net/articles/interview-developers-remotely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/articles/interview-developers-remotely/</guid><description>Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>remote</category><category>management</category><category>interview</category></item><item><title>The challenges behind releasing our Windows 10 Universal app</title><link>https://maneu.net/articles/2016-challenges-behind-releasing-windows-10-app/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/articles/2016-challenges-behind-releasing-windows-10-app/</guid><description>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 today</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>archive</category></item><item><title>Making our recruitment process more agile — a 10-month retrospective</title><link>https://maneu.net/articles/2016-07-making-recuitment-process-agile-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/articles/2016-07-making-recuitment-process-agile-retrospective/</guid><description>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…</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>archive</category></item><item><title>Developers, watch your weight!</title><link>https://maneu.net/articles/developpeurs-surveillez-votre-poids/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/articles/developpeurs-surveillez-votre-poids/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>archive</category></item><item><title>Introducing LogHash, a better way to log</title><link>https://maneu.net/articles/introducing-loghash-a-better-way-to-log/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/articles/introducing-loghash-a-better-way-to-log/</guid><description>A case for adding simple, portable semantics to plain-text logs, and an introduction to LogHash, a Markdown-like markup language for logging.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>archive</category></item><item><title>My XAML coding guidelines</title><link>https://maneu.net/articles/my-xaml-coding-guidelines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/articles/my-xaml-coding-guidelines/</guid><description>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:</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>archive</category></item><item><title>Spatial indexes in SQL Server 2012 / SQL Azure</title><link>https://maneu.net/articles/les-index-spatiaux-dans-sql-server-2012-sql-azure/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/articles/les-index-spatiaux-dans-sql-server-2012-sql-azure/</guid><description>Searching the world at lightning speed with spatial indexes, grid tessellation, and query tuning in SQL Server and SQL Azure.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>spatial</category></item><item><title>What if Azure had helped me sign up for Free Mobile?</title><link>https://maneu.net/articles/et-si-azure-mavait-permis-de-minscrire-freemobile-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/articles/et-si-azure-mavait-permis-de-minscrire-freemobile-1/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>archive</category></item><item><title>MishraReader– The UX proposal (#1)</title><link>https://maneu.net/articles/mishrareader-the-ux-proposal-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/articles/mishrareader-the-ux-proposal-1/</guid><description>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…</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>archive</category></item><item><title>Hyper-V: a quick tour of Dynamic Memory</title><link>https://maneu.net/articles/hyper-v-petit-tour-rapide-de-dynamic-memory/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/articles/hyper-v-petit-tour-rapide-de-dynamic-memory/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:34:21 GMT</pubDate><category>archive</category></item><item><title>Teaching in 2010 — A few tools to help you</title><link>https://maneu.net/articles/enseigner-en-2010-quelques-outils-pour-vous-aider/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://maneu.net/articles/enseigner-en-2010-quelques-outils-pour-vous-aider/</guid><description>Mind mapping, screencasting, interactive classrooms, and other tools I use to teach technical subjects to students and professionals.</description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>archive</category></item></channel></rss>