iOS9 battery life and CommCenter CPU usage when on EE

There is a bug with the iOS 9 betas if you are running on EE. This bug causes massive battery drain. You can read the related threads on reddit and macrumors. I’ve spent days diagnosing this problem have found some interesting things including a solution: Poor Battery Life and hot iPhone is due to CommCenter process …

Apple watchOS beta 4 is looking good

Apple watchOS beta 4 is a huge improvement over beta 3!Here’s things I’ve noticed already: Apple Pay is now enabled. The screen brightness at maximum has improved. Animations are very smooth again. Beta 3 was extremely slow. UI bug with customising a watch face while time travel is enabled fixed. …

Automatically deploying TeamCity Azure Build Agents into specific virtual networks (vnets)

Jetbrains has recently added support for using Azure as cloud build agents. It supports start and stopping existing virtual machine instances or start and stopping new virtual machine instances created from an image. Unfortunately the plugin currently doesn’t support creating new virtual machine instances within a specific virtual network (vnet) which can complicate setups where you want to keep …

Strange Visual Studio 2013 debugger bug

Try debugging the following code on Visual Studio 2013. Make sure you compile to x64 and set a the breakpoint at the var bar =… line. The code should throw an InvalidOperationException but instead gets to Console.WriteLine(). It works fine if you don’t set a breakpoint or just run without …