Steve Fenton is a programmer, (hands-on) architect, and theory-y/human-centric manager mostly working around the .NET space. He enjoys creating software that makes a difference to people’s lives; such as mail transfer agents with zero-day threat detection or clinical decision support engines. Steve has been active in the whole DevOps life-cycle and enjoys coaching people on agile and lean methods (and the theories behind them). He also enjoys finding fractal principles; such as those found in monitoring and alerting, or in queuing theory.

Books by Steve Fenton

A Note From Steve

This is my personal journal where I store ideas, notes, and information to supplement my biological abilities. My interests are programming, psychology, philosophy and critical thinking, and the Oxford Comma. The journal largely covers the order software progressio and the families modum translitterandi, processus, and populus. I am also secretly S. M. Fenton the author of The Vanishing Room.

Recent Journals

You can review my full archive of journals, but the most recent entries are listed below.

• Minification Failed. Returning Unminified Contents. Posted in: Programming- Has you ASP.NET applicaiton reported that minification failed? If you are using bundles in application, you might come across this…
• Use PowerShell to Count the Number of Elements in XML Files Posted in: Programming- I needed to know how many pictures were being sent in a collection of XML documents, so I wrote a…
• The Phase Precision Premise Posted in: Process- When I worked on the technical side of software development, I talked a great deal about #NoEstimates. I'm now on…
• Analytics: More Users Than Sessions Posted in: Analytics- Analytics are super-useful but can get a bit tricky at times. For some reason, several of those times seem to…
• Why Unique Visitors in Analytics Never Adds Up Posted in: Analytics- Whether you use Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, or some other package to learn about your web traffic, you are likely…
• 5 DbUp Tips from Paul Stovell Posted in: Programming- I tuned into the Octopus Deploy and Clear Measure live stream on safe, automated, and drama-free database deployments and there…
• Capturing Telephone and Mail Link Clicks in Google Analytics Posted in: Programming- There are a great many posts on the subject of capturing events for telephone or email clicks in Google Analytics.…
• Genius in Hindsight: TypeScript Type Annotations Posted in: Programming- When TypeScript first landed in public view in October 2012, the type annotations looked a bit funky. If you were…
• Testing the In-Progress Chess Game Posted in: Process- Last October, I was asked why released of a legacy system were so hit and miss. There were a couple…
• The Dedicated Scrum Master Role Posted in: Process- After reading a discussion about whether having a dedicated Scrum Master is an effective way of running a team, I…