DamienG

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This page is a summary of DamienG.com — you can also read a specific Privacy Policy as well as Terms & Conditions.

Technology

This site is statically generated via Nuxt.JS and uses my own theme designed for SEO and speed with excellent industry-standard best practices.

Hosting

This blog is hosted on CloudFlare while Amazon S3 provides the downloads and static images behind their CloudFront CDN.

Licensing

Code

Code presented in blog posts is provided as-is, without warranty and is dual-licensed under:

at your option. You should ensure the legal and technical suitability of any code you acquire before integrating it into your own codebase.

Code and programs available from the Development section of the site are subject to their own individual copyrights and licenses.

Content

Site content is Copyright © Damien Guard. All rights are reserved. If you want to quote more than a fair-use extract just get in touch — this avoids duplicate content on the web and helps search ranking.

Responsible disclosure

I feel the opinions and views I express here are truly my own however it is only responsible to disclose payments or gifts in kind that could be construed to have influenced such views.

MongoDB

I am a contractor for MongoDB where I have created their MongoDB Entity Framework Core provider which I maintain.

MKG Marketing

I often write about web development articles that reference MKG Marketing Inc. which I am contracted to for web development services. My wife is the CEO and 50% co-owner of MKG Marketing Inc., the other half of the company is owned by her business partner (not me).

GitHub

I worked for GitHub on their Atom editor editor from January 2016 through April 2018.

I was a Principal Software Engineer at Centurylink Cloud. I did not write about Centurylink on my blog apart from a Pi Day event with Coder Dojo.

Attack Pattern

I was the Chief Technology Officer at Attack Pattern and had a lot of interest in this company and its products such as Sticker Tales doing well at that time. I left in June 2014 and no longer have any financial ties with the company or it’s subsequent evolution into Facet.

Netflix

I was a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix between August 2011 and September 2012. I have not written about Netflix or any articles relating to my employment here. I held Netflix stock options from August 2011 exercising them in September 2013.

Microsoft

From May 2008 to July 2011 I was a full-time Software Development Engineer at Microsoft initially on the Object and Entity Frameworks Team (working on LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework and Code First) and then from March 2010 at Xbox LIVE working on the web marketplace. I owned Microsoft stock until April 2015 and participated in their corporate employee discount programs with other organizations I mention on this blog including Apple and AT&T.

My role at Microsoft did not include blogging and Microsoft was not involved with the content of this blog other than when I have personally sought technical details (LINQ to SQL changes for 4.0) or a wording review (Future of LINQ to SQL) from my team. A draft about the features I personally want in LINQ to SQL was abandoned when a team member drew my attention to the likely chance that people would construe this as future direction given my position at that time.

As a member of the Microsoft Alumni I receive a complimentary MSDN subscription which includes Azure credits I take advantage of to learn and previously hosed parts of this site on Azure.

VMware

I received a free copy of VMware Fusion 2.0 directly from VMware which I could just use or write a review of. I used it until version 3 where I paid for an upgrade but switched to Parallels instead. I mention both on my blog but have not specifically reviewed either. I no longer use VMware Fusion, Parallels or a Mac.

FontLab

I talk about FontLab software and while I did join the affiliate program I did not earn any payments and paid full regular price for both FontLab Studio and BitFonter for Windows and an upgrade price for Fontographer for Mac.

NDepends

I was offered and accepted a free copy of NDepends which I initially used to try and identify IL-level changes between my LINQ to SQL templates and the SQLMetal generated code. It was not well suited for this use and so I haven’t reviewed or used the software since.

Clarius Visual T4

Clarius Consulting offer Visual T4 which adds syntax highlighting and IntelliSense to Visual Studio for T4 template (.tt) files. Clarius offered me a free Pro license as a thank-you for the T4 community work I have done — specifically the T4 multi-file helper and the LINQ to SQL templates — which I accepted and intend to use.

Affiliates & advertising

I experimented with affiliate programs and advertising. To date (24 July 2024) approximate revenues (since 2008) from these are:

  • Amazon Affiliates $1,238 (various recommendations)
  • Google Adsense $610 (sidebar graphic advertising)
  • Guernsey estate agents $200 (graphic ad on the Guernsey Estate Agents page)
  • Commission Junction $1,334 (Crucial products in MacBook Pro SSD article)
  • Brevo $0 (link from post about Brevo with Nuxt3)

Everything else

I have received a number of free gift offers which normally come with the suggestion a review would be a welcome.

Any reviews on this site that were based on a free product are clearly listed so in the introductory paragraph.

[)amien