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Much of Encodo's infrastructure is now housed in Azure. Each employee has an account in Azure.
Because users are already authenticated in Visual Studio (to register it), they will be able to access Azure NuGet feeds through Visual Studio without any further intervention. You can restore/install/update without providing any additional credentials.
As of today, access to Azure Feeds from the command line is granted only if you provide credentials with the source.
Sources created in the Visual Studio UI do not include credentials.
Solutions that include sources in a
NuGet.config do not have credentials (because they are stored in the repository).
Therefore, you must register a NuGet source with authentication for Azure for your user.
You can find your
NuGet.config in your roaming profile on Windows, at
Instead of editing the file directly, use the NuGet command line to add an authenticated source.
You cannot just use your username/password to create an authenticated source. Instead, you have to use a PAT.
Follow the instructions below to create a PAT for your Azure account.
NuGet Feed Access
encodo for employees)
Custom defined for
Some extra tips:
Now you can set up a NuGet source for your user.
Execute the following command, replacing the bracketed arguments as follows:
nuget sources add -Name "Azure (Authenticated)" -Source https://encodo.pkgs.visualstudio.com/_packaging/Quino/nuget/v3/index.json -UserName <username> -Password <PAT>
tl;dr: If MSBuild/Visual Studio tells you that "the value of SourceRoot.RepositoryUrl is invalid..." and you have no idea what it's talking about, it might help to add the following to the offending project and the error becomes a warning.
Microsoft introduced this fancy new feature called Source Link that integrates with NuGet servers to deliver symbols and source code for packages.
This feature is opt-in and library and package providers are encouraged to enable it and host packages on a server that supports Source Link.
The debugging experience is seamless. You can debug into Source-Linked code with barely a pause in debugging.
The only drawback is that you don't have local sources, so it's trickier to set breakpoints in sources that haven't been downloaded yet. When you had local sources, you could open the source file you wanted and set a breakpoint, knowing that the debugger would look for the file in that path and be able to stop on the breakpoint.
Also, Visual Studio's default behavior is to show all debugging sources in a single tab, so you don't even have all of the files open that you looked at when your debug session ends. If you hover the tab, you can figure out the storage location, but it's a long and not very intuitive path. Also, it only contains the sources that you've already requested.
Still, it's a neat feature.
However, Microsoft is doing some things that suggest that the feature is no longer 100% opt-in. The following error message cropped up in a project with absolutely no Source Link settings or packages. It doesn't even directly use packages that have Source Link enabled (not that that should make a difference).
There are actually three problems here:
It's the second one that make this issue so evil. The issue crops up literally out of nowhere and then prevents you from working. The project builds. Even if I wanted Source Link on my project but it wasn't set up correctly, this is no reason to prevent me from running/debugging my product.
And, honestly, because of reason #3, I'm still not sure what the actual problem is or how I can address it with anything but a workaround.
Because, yes, I found a workaround. Else, I wouldn't be writing this article.
The first time I encountered this and lost hours of precious time, I "fixed" it by removing Source Link support for some packages that my product imports. At the time, I thought I was getting the error message because TeamCity was producing corrupted packages when Source Link was included. It was not a quick fix to open up a different solution, remove Source Link support and re-build all packages on CI, but it seemed to work.
Upon reflection and further reading, this is unlikely to have been the real reason I was seeing the message or why it magically went away. Source Link support in a NuGet server involves having access to source control in order to be able to retrieve the requested sources.
It's honestly still unclear to me why Visual Studio/MSBuild is complaining about this at build-time in a local environment.
Today, I got the error again, in a different project. The packages I'd suspected yesterday were not included in this product. Another, very similar product used the exact same set of packages without a problem.
Even though the issue Using SourceLink without .git directory isn't really the issue I'm having, I eventually started copying stuff from the answers into the project in my solution that failed to build.
Add the following to any of the offending projects and the error becomes a warning.
The ensuing warning? I can't help you there. I threw in a few other directives into the project file, but to no avail. I'm not happy to have a compile warning for a feature I never enabled and cannot disable, but I'm hoping that Microsoft will fix this sooner rather than later.
About five years ago, I wrote Who's using up my entire SSD?. Much of the advice given in that article is still applicable, but I have an update for more modern applications and packages.
I use the following tactics to manage free space on my Windows machine:
This tool is available from the Windows Menu and works pretty well for basic cleanup.
The PatchCleaner utility determines which patches in the
Windows/Installer folder correspond to installed software. Windows does not clean this up, so it's possible that patches are still lying around that correspond to very old software that has either already been uninstalled or that can no longer be uninstalled using that patch.
The software offers to move the patches to another drive/folder or simply delete them. I've been using the utility for over half a year and have never had a single problem with Windows (i.e. I've never had to restore any of the packages that PatchCleaner removed). At first, I moved the patches, now I just delete them.
I've been using TreeSizeFree by Jam Software for a long time. It's fast and easy to use. I almost always find that, other than the
Windows folder, the largest folder is my user's
AppData/Local folder.
In order to avoid UAC in Windows, many applications now install to this user folder by default. This is a good thing, generally, but some applications also keep copies of their installations—and then never delete them. This practice can eat a lot of space for applications that are frequently updated.
On my machine, the main culprits are:
These applications have since improved their cleanup practices, but it pays to check whether you've still got installers/caches for older versions.
See the Uninstall section below for how to best remove the old versions.
If you're using Package References and more-recent versions of NuGet, then you'll have local caches of packages. While this practice saves a lot of hard-drive space by consolidating caches for all solutions, the default location is in the user's
AppData/Local/.nuget folder.
You can either clear everything with the following command:
nuget locals all -clear
or you can change the location with an environment variable
NuGetCachePath (see Can the NuGet 3.2 package cache location be changed for more information).
My cache is 2.2GB right now, but I haven't moved it yet.
By default, ReSharper stores its caches in the user's
AppData folder. From the ReSharper Options/General/Caches, you can change that location to another drive. That folder is currently 1.6GB on my machine, which is not insubstantial.
Most manuals about saving disk space start with this step. I've assumed that you're a developer who has already checked this list, but it doesn't hurt to mention it.
Here you might see the older versions of ReSharper or SmartGit that I mentioned above. If so, go ahead and remove them using the uninstallers.
If the uninstallers don't work and you still see them using a lot of space in your
AppData folder, then do the following:
AppData folder manually
AppData folder.
You can also gape in awe that "Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio" takes a breathtaking 2.8GB. Shake your head ruefully that you unfortunately need it and can't uninstall it. Or maybe you can? If you have JetBrains Rider, then you also have JetBrains DataGrip, which is an excellent SQL Server client.
I mention SDKs explicitly because they can take a lot of space and most of them are completely superfluous—a newer version generally completely replaces an older version, even if you're targeting the older version from a solution.
For example, I had five Windows SDKs on my machine, each of which weighed in at ~2.5GB. These SDKs were for targeting versions of Windows that I'd long since upgraded. Several of them seemed only to be useful if I was doing C++ development (which I have occasionally done, but which happens rarely and doesn't target the Windows API very heavily). I was able discard all of these packages without any drawbacks.
Next up were the dozens of .NET Core and Framework SDKs for older—and sometimes exquisitely specific (e.g. .NET Core 1.0.4 rc4 preview 2)—versions, each weighing in at between 350MB and 500MB. I was able to remove all but the most recent versions, .NET Core 2.2 and .NET Framework 4.7.2. I have projects that target .NET Core 2.0 and 2.1 explicitly, and they are unaffected.
Those are most up-to-date tips and tricks I've got for managing hard-drive space. I don't try to optimize my main application installations, like Visual Studio or Office. They seem to spread their data over the
Program* folders, but I'm not going to touch those, as long as I've got other places to optimize.
I've been using and upgrading my Windows image heavily for .NET (and other) software development for almost years without re-imaging and currently I've got a total of 161.6GB, divvied up as shown below.
|installers, caches, etc.
|Hyper-V/Linux subsystem disk image
|Program Files (x86)
|Program Files
|Hibernate file, paging file
The summary below describes major new features, items of note and breaking changes.
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NuGet.config file.
UseModelBuilder<T>, but support for other configurations (ad-hoc/faked models in tests) derives more clearly from there. See Metadata Architecture in the conceptual documentation for more information.
GetAllObjects() and
GetFormattedGraph() methods for all hierarchical types were hard-coded in previous versions. Now, products inject the appropriate type (e.g.
IExpressionGraphTraversalAlgorithm or
IExpressionGraphFormattingAlgorithm) and call methods on these objects instead. Additionally, we've created documentation for how a product can implement support its own data hierarchies. See Object Graphs in the conceptual documentation for more information.
quino command-line utility that replaced the
Quino.Utils package in 6.x has also been extended to support both TeamCity and Azure DevOps. We're using this tool both locally (to update versions and standardize projects) as well as in CI (to set version, update nuspec files for .NET Framework projects and to enable documentation). Both SDK and Framework-style project types are fully supported. We plan to extend the tool further to provide more of the functionality that
Quino.Utils used to provide (e.g. updating source headers and fixing myriad project properties). See Tools and, in particular, quino fix in the conceptual documentation for more information on where we are headed.
None is no longer supported (there is always a user context) and the default is now
UseOperator, which uses (but does not authenticate) as the OS user that executed the software. Single sign-on products would use
AuthenticateOperator. See QNO-6147 for more information.
CreateCursor rather than
GetList didn't avoid allocating a ton of memory by the end of the iteration. We detected this when indexing data for Lucene support in a custom product. See QNO-6125 and QNO-5425 for more information.
[NotNull] and
[CanBeNull] annotations for parameters and return types. Many APIs also include
[Pure] where appropriate. The annotations are retained and delivered with the NuGet packages, where ReSharper makes use of them in dependent products. See QNO-6092 for more information.
RunMode.Debug now stop in the debugger at the point that they are thrown. Previous versions included a global catch/re-throw handler used to maintain statistics. Errors are now added to statistics in debug mode only if a specific option is set, so that proper debugging behavior has priority, rather than the other way around. See QNO-5723 for more information.
The recommended upgrade path is as follows:
Encodo.* packages. Make note of which packages you've uninstalled.
Quino.*.Core package for the
Encodo.* packages you uninstalled in the step above.
Quino.Processes if you were using the
IProcessManager anywhere.
All Quino.WebApi and Quino.Windows packages now target .NET Framework 4.7.2. We made this change to improve interoperability with .NET Standard and .NET Core packages, on a recommendation from Microsoft. See QNOWIN-241 for more information.
We renamed all
Encodo.* packages to
Quino.Core*. Since this change does not affect high-level packages, most solutions should be largely unaffected. However, if a solution had included one of the
Encodo.* assemblies directly, then you need to manually remove that reference and include the
Quino.*.Core package instead.
Additionally, we reduced the surface area of
Quino.Application.Core (previously named
Encodo.Application) by moving significant parts into sub-packages:
Quino.Configuration: contains all support for
IKeyValueNode<T> nodes and for loading/managing configuration
IFeedback and supporting types and methods
Quino.CommandLine: all command-line support
Quino.Application.Core still depends on these three packages, but they can now also be used independently of pulling in the full application support.
We also replaced the following packages:
with the following packages:
Clients and servers should instead include the server or client package, respectively and the desired protocol packages. Configure the server with
and the client with
All namespaces now begin with
Encodo.Quino. Types that used to begin with just
Encodo (no
Quino) are now in the
Encodo.Quino namespace. For example,
Encodo.Core.Bit is known as
IProcessManager is no longer in the
Encodo.Application package. It is now in the
Quino.Processes package.
IEventAggregator is no longer in the
Encodo.Core package. It is now in the
Quino.Processes package.
IPayloadFactory and its associated types are no longer in the
Encodo.Connections package (nor is it the renamed
Quino.Connections.Core package). Instead, you can find these base types in the
Quino.Protocol.Core package.
IMetaPropertyPath no longer extends
IList<IMetaProperty> and is now immutable. The implementation
MetaPropertyPath is also now immutable. Use the
GetFullPath() and
ToList() extension methods to get information about the path.
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*Few changes so far, other than that Quino-Windows targets .NET Framework 4.7.2 and DevExpress 18.2.5
[Pure], etc. are now included in Quino assemblies. Tools like R# use these attributes during code-analysis to find possible bugs and improve warnings and suggestions.
Encodo.Compilers now uses Roslyn to provide compiling services. Quino-Standard uses these from tests to verify generated code. As of this release, C#6 and C#7 features are supported. Also, the compiler support is available on all platforms.
UseRunModeCommand() is no longer available by default. Applications have to opt-in to the
rm -debug setting. Please see the Debugging documentation for assistance in converting to the new configuration methods.
KeyValueNode.GetValue() no longer returns null; use
TryGetValue() instead.
KeyValueNode.GetValue() no longer accepts a parameter of type
logger. All logging is now done to the central logger. If you still need to collect messages from that operation, then see
ConfigurableLoggerExtensions.UseLogger() or
IDatabaseProperties.Collation is now of type
string rather than
Collation. This change was made to allow an application to specify exactly the desired collation without having Quino reinterpret it or do matching.
ISqlServerCollationTools.GetEncodingAndCollation() now returns a tuple of
(Encoding, string) rather than a tuple of
(Encoding, Collation).
NamedValueNode has changed. Instead, you should use the abstraction
The following is a complete list of all Quino release notes, from newest to oldest. See the roadmap for future releases.
If you're familiar with the topic, you might be recoiling in horror. It would be unclear, though, whether you're recoiling from the "using Collab" part or the "using Collab with Git" part.
Neither is as straightforward as I'd hoped.
tl;dr: If you have to use Collab with Unity, but want to back it up with Git, disable
core.autocrlf1 and add
* -text to the
Collab is the source-control system integrated into the Unity IDE.
It was built for designers to be able to do some version control, but not much more. Even with its limited scope, it's a poor tool.
This is really dangerous, especially with Unity projects. There is so much in a Unity project without a proper "Undo" that you very often want to return to a known good version.
So what can we do to improve this situation? We would like to use Git instead of Collab.
However, we have to respect the capabilities and know-how of the designers on our team, who don't know how to use Git.
On our current project, there's no time to train everyone on Git—and they already know how to use Collab and don't feel tremendously limited by it.
Remember, any source control is better than no source control. The designers are regularly backing up their work now. In its defense, Collab is definitely better than nothing (or using a file-share or some other weak form of code-sharing).
Instead, those of us who know Git are using Git alongside Collab.
We started naively, with all of our default settings in Git. Our workflow was:
Unfortunately, we would often end up with a ton of files marked as changed in Collab. These were always line-ending differences. As mentioned above, Collab is not a good tool for reverting changes.
The project has time constraints—it's a prototype for a conference, with a hard deadline—so, despite its limitations, we reverted in Collab and updated Git with the line-endings that Collab expected.
We limped along like this for a bit, but with two developers on Git/Collab on Windows and one designer on Collab on Mac, we were spending too much time "fixing up" files. The benefit of having Git was outweighed by the problems it caused with Collab.
So we investigated what was really going on. The following screenshots show that Collab doesn't seem to care about line-endings. They're all over the map.
Git, on the other hand, really cares about line-endings. By default, Git will transform the line-endings in files that it considers to be text files (this part is important later) to the line-ending of the local platform.
In the repository, all text files are LF-only. If you work on MacOS or Linux, line-endings in the workspace are unchanged; if you work on Windows, Git changes all of these line-endings to CRLF on checkout—and back to LF on commit.
Our first "fix" was to turn off the
core.autocrlf option in the local Git repository.
git config --local core.autocrlf false
We thought this would fix everything since now Git was no longer transforming our line-endings on commit and checkout.
This turned out to be only part of the problem, though. As you can see above, the text files in the repository have an arbitrary mix of line-endings already. Even with the feature turned off, Git was still normalizing line-endings to LF on Windows.
The only thing we'd changed so far is to stop using the CRLF instead of LF. Any time we
git reset, for example, the line-endings in our workspace would still end up being different than what was in Git or Collab.
What we really want is for Git to stop changing any line-endings at all.
This isn't part of the command-line configuration, though. Instead, you have to set up
.gitattributes. Git has default settings that determine which files it treats as which types. We wanted to adjust these default settings by telling Git that, in this repository, it should treat no files as text.
Once we knew this, it's quite easy to configure. Simply add a
.gitattributes file to the root of the repository, with the following contents:
* -text
This translates to "do not treat any file as text" (i.e. match all files; disable text-handling).
With these settings, the two developers were able to reset their workspaces and both Git and Collab were happy. Collab is still a sub-par tool, but we can now work with designers and still have Git to allow the developers to use a better workflow.
The designers using only Collab were completely unaffected by our changes.
Technically, I don't think you have to change the
autocrlf setting. Turning off text-handling in Git should suffice. However, I haven't tested with this feature left on and, due to time-constraints, am not going to risk it.↩
Microsoft has recently made a lot of their .NET code open-source. Not only is the code for many of the base libraries open-source but also the code for the runtime itself. On top of that, basic .NET development is now much more open to community involvement.
In that spirit, even endeavors like designing the features to be included in the next version of C# are online and open to all: C# Design Meeting Notes for Jan 21, 2015 by Mads Torgerson.
You may be surprised at the version number "7" -- aren't we still waiting for C# 6 to be officially released? Yes, we are.
If you'll recall, the primary feature added to C# 5 was support for asynchronous operations through the
await keywords. Most .NET programmers are only getting around to using this rather far- and deep-reaching feature, to say nothing of the new C# 6 features that are almost officially available.
C# 6 brings the following features with it and can be used in the CTP versions of Visual Studio 2015 or downloaded from the Roslyn project.
Some of the more interesting features of C# 6 are:
out parameter can now be declared inline with
var or a specific type. This avoids the ugly variable declaration outside of a call to a
Try* method.
using can now be used with with a static class as well as a namespace. Direct access to methods and properties of a static class should clean up some code considerably.
string.Format() and numbered parameters for formatting, C# 6 allows expressions to be embedded directly in a string (á la PHP): e.g.
"{Name} logged in at {Time}"
null when the target of a call is
null. E.g.
company.People?[0]?.ContactInfo?.BusinessAddress.Street includes three null-checks
If the idea of using
await correctly or wrapping your head around the C# 6 features outlined above doesn't already make your poor head spin, then let's move on to language features that aren't even close to being implemented yet.
That said, the first set of design notes for C# 7 by Mads Torgerson include several interesting ideas as well.
Related User Voice issues:
Controlling Nullability: Another idea is to be able to declare reference types that can never be
null at compile-time (where reasonable -- they do acknowledge that they may end up with a "less ambitious approach").
Readonly parameters and locals: Being able to express when change is allowed is a powerful form of expressiveness. C# 7 may include the ability to make local variables and parameters readonly. This will help avoid accidental side-effects.
Lambda capture lists: One of the issues with closures is that they currently just close over any referenced variables. The compiler just makes this happen and for the most part works as expected. When it doesn't work as expected, it creates subtle bugs that lead to leaks, race conditions and all sorts of hairy situations that are difficult to debug.
If you throw in the increased use of and nesting of lambda calls, you end up with subtle bugs buried in frameworks and libraries that are nearly impossible to tease out.
The idea of this feature is to allow a lambda to explicitly capture variables and perhaps even indicate whether the capture is read-only. Any additional capture would be flagged by the compiler or tools as an error.Contracts(!): And, finally, this is the feature I'm most excited about because I've been waiting for integrated language support for Design by Contract for literally decades1, ever since I read the Object-Oriented Software Construction 2 (OOSC2) for the first time. The design document doesn't say much about it, but mentions that ".NET already has a contract system", the weaknesses of which I've written about before. Torgersen writes:
When you think about how much code is currently occupied with arguments and result checking, this certainly seems like an attractive way to reduce code bloat and improve readability.
...and expressiveness and provability!
There are a bunch of User Voice issues that I can't encourage you enough to vote for so we can finally get this feature:
With some or all of these improvements, C# 7 would move much closer to a provable language at compile-time, an improvement over being a safe language at run-time.
We can already indicate that instance data or properties are readonly. We can already mark methods as static to prevent the use of
this. We can use ReSharper
[NotNull] attributes to (kinda) enforce non-null references without using structs and incurring the debt of value-passing and -copying semantics.
I'm already quite happy with C# 5, but if you throw in some or all of the stuff outlined above, I'll be even happier. I'll still have stuff I can think of to increase expressiveness -- covariant return types for polymorphic methods or anchored types or relaxed contravariant type-conformance -- but this next set of features being discussed sounds really, really good.
I love the features of the language Eiffel, but haven't ever been able to use it for work. The tools and IDE are a bit stuck in the past (very dated on Windows; X11 required on OS X). The language is super-strong, with native support for contracts, anchored types, null-safe programming, contravariant type-conformance, covariant return types and probably much more that C# is slowly but surely including with each version. Unfair? I've been writing about this progress for years (from newest to oldest):↩
Due to the nature of the language, there are some API changes that almost inevitably lead to breaking changes in C#.
While you can easily make another constructor, marking the old one(s) as obsolete, if you use an IOC that allows only a single public constructor, you're forced to either
In either case, the user has a compile error.
There are several known issues with introducing new methods or changing existing methods on an existing interface. For many of these situations, there are relatively smooth upgrade paths.
I encountered a situation recently that I thought worth mentioning. I wanted to introduce a new overload on an existing type.
Suppose you have the following method:
bool TryGetValue<T>(
out T value,
TKey key = default(TKey),
[CanBeNull] ILogger logger = null
We would like to remove the
logger parameter. So we deprecate the method above and declare the new method.
bool TryGetValue<T>(
out T value,
TKey key = default(TKey)
Now the compiler/ReSharper notifies you that there will be an ambiguity if a caller does not pass a
logger. How to resolve this? Well, we can just remove the default value for that parameter in the obsolete method.
bool TryGetValue<T>(
out T value,
TKey key = default(TKey),
[CanBeNull] ILogger logger
But now you've got another problem: The parameter
logger cannot come after the
key parameter because it doesn't have a default value.
So, now you'd have to move the
logger parameter in front of the key parameter. This will cause a compile error in clients, which is what we were trying to avoid in the first place.
In this case, we have a couple of sub-optimal options.
Use a different name for the new API (e.g.
TryGetValueEx à la Windows) in the next major version, then switch the name back in the version after that and finally remove the obsolete member in yet another version.
That is,
TryGetValue (with logger) is obsolete and users are told to use
TryGetValueEx (no logger)
TryGetValueEx (no logger) is obsolete and users are told to use
TryGetValue (no logger)
This is a lot of work and requires three upgrades to accomplish. You really need to stay on the ball in order to get this kind of change integrated and it takes a non-trivial amount of time and effort.
We generally don't use this method, as our customers are developers and can deal with a compile error or two, especially when it's noted in the release notes and the workaround is fairly obvious (e.g. the
logger parameter is just no longer required).
Accept that there will be a compile error and soften the landing as much as possible for customers by noting it in the release notes.
In late 2011 and early 2012, Encodo designed a querying language for Quino. Quino has an ORM that, combined with .NET Linq provides a powerful querying interface for developers. QQL is a DSL that brings this power to non-developers.
QQL never made it to implementation---only specification. In the meantime, the world moved on and we have common, generic querying APIs like OData. The time for QQL is past, but the specification is still an interesting artifact, in its own right.
Who knows? Maybe we'll get around to implementing some of it, at some point.
At any rate, you can download the specification from the downloads section.
The following excerpts should give you an idea of what you're in for, should you download and read the 80-page document.
The TOC lists the following top-level chapters:
From the abstract in the document:
The Quino Query Language (QQL) defines a syntax and semantics for formulating data requests against hierarchical data structures. It is easy to read and learn both for those familiar with SQL and non-programmers with a certain capacity for abstract thinking (i.e. power users). Learning only a few basic rules is enough to allow a user to quickly determine which data will be returned by all but the more complex queries. As with any other language, more complex concepts result in more complex texts, but the syntax of QQL limits these cases.
From the overview:
QQL defines a syntax and semantics for writing queries against hierarchical data structures. A query describes a set of data by choosing an initial context in the data and specifying which data are to be returned and how the results are to be organized. An execution engine generates this result by applying the query to the data.
The follow is from chapter 2.1, "Simple Standard Query":
The following query returns the first and last name of all active people as well as their 10 most recent time entries, reverse-sorted first by last name, then by first name.
FirstName; LastName;
Sample:= TimeEntries { orderby Date desc; limit 10 }
where Active
LastName desc;
FirstName desc;
In chapter 2, there are also "2.2 Intermediate Standard Query" and "2.3 Complex Standard Query" examples.
The following is from chapter 2.4, "Simple Grouping Query":
The following query groups active people by last name and returns the age of the youngest person and the maximum contracts for each last name. Results are ordered by the maximum contracts for each group and then by last name.
group Person
groupby LastName;
Age:= (Now - BirthDate.Min).Year;
MaxContracts:= Contracts.Count.Max
where Active;
MaxContracts desc;
LastName desc;
In chapter 2, there are also "2.5 Complex Grouping Query", "2.6 Standard Query with Grouping Query" and "2.7 Nested Grouping Queries" examples.


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Armenia Opens $50 Million Mining Farm
Hoping to become the next crypto mining hotspot, Armenia has opened a 3,000-machine mining farm at a cost of $50 million. As reported by local news outlet Arka News, the Yerevan farm – Armenia's first – will be headed by Armenian real estate company Multi Group Concern and Omnia Tech International, a Malta-registered company.
The farm, which plans to increase the number of mining rigs to 120,000, will mine bitcoin and Ether. The opening ceremony on October 19 was attended by the Armenian acting prime minister and businessmen from China, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates.
The farm is part of an attempt to create a free economic zone that will also house a state-of-the-art technology center, officials said. This reflects a growing globalization of crypto mining, with Russia announcing in August the conversion of a fertilizer laboratory into a crypto mining farm and Georgia's establishment of a bitcoin farm two years ago.
Washington City Imposes Year-Long Crypto Mining Ban
While some areas are diving for mining opportunities, others are retreating. Citing large drains on electricity and increased noise pollution without producing new jobs, Ephrata, Washington, joined other Grant County cities in temporarily banning cryptocurrency mining in city limits. By a vote of 6-1, the city council voted for a one-year moratorium on new crypto operations, as reported by The Spokesman-Review.
The moratorium will not affect the four existing operations in the city. The Grant County Public Utilities Department (PUD) has already issued a plan to impose higher electricity rates for cryptocurrency companies starting April 2019. Per Choose Energy, Washington state has the second-lowest electricity rate in the United States, following Louisiana.
This moratorium follows a trend in Washington that includes a moratorium by the Chelan PUD following the discovery of unauthorized mining; it recognized unauthorized loads to the system as "power theft." Franklin PUD also imposed a moratorium in July to give staff time to review the effects of mining.
Crypto Mergers & Acquisitions on the Rise Due to Bear Market
As reported by CNBC, the number of mergers and acquisitions of cryptocurrency companies have more than doubled since the past year. Per data from PitchBook compiled by JMP Securities, there have been 115 crypto- or blockchain-related deals since January 1, and that number is projected to hit 145 by the end of the year, up from 45 last year.
"You're seeing a mispricing of assets," said JMP Securities' Satya Bajpai to CNBC in an interview. "Even for great businesses, the value of the token remains correlated to bitcoin, which can create an ideal opportunity for strategic acquirers."
Due to the industry's fast pace, many companies are finding it easier to buy infrastructure than to build it. A notable example is Coinbase's purchase of Earn.com, which allows users to send and receive crypto for completing tasks, including replying to emails.
"As soon as a company becomes interesting, they get bought — the deal size may still remain small, but the number of deals will increase because that's the most viable and fastest way to grow in this environment."
Ether Now Only Accounts for 4 Percent of Genesis Trading Loan Book
Since launching in March, Genesis Global Trading has processed over $500 million in crypto loans. In March 2018, 42 percent of the loans made by Genesis were in Ether. Today, per a report released by Genesis, it is less than four percent:
"At launch, lending activity was driven largely by speculative hedge funds," Genesis reports. "BTC loans primarily serviced working capital needs, while ETH loans were primarily used for short interest. Some of our largest single originations to date were ETH loans in March and May to hedge funds. Over the second half of the year, these hedge funds began covering positions as they realized profits and the short interest in ETH was replaced by other alternative assets. Also, more trading firms began borrowing BTC, as trading activity in derivative markets increased."
The low value of Ether relative to its price earlier in the year makes the coin unsuitable for short-position loans. In an interview with CNBC Fast Money, Michael Moro, CEO of Genesis, insists that the platform's short selling of ETH did not contribute to the coin's price demise. Genesis's portfolio assets fell from 25 percent Ether in August to 3.7 percent in September.
As reported by MarketWatch, Ether shorts are at a record high as traders are betting for another price drop. Bitfinex is currently reporting more than 300,000 outstanding Ether short positions at a market value of approximately $60 million.
"So we saw a dramatic shift in sort of portfolio competition between August and September. You can read the tea leaves to figure out what that ultimately implies in terms of the bottom for Ethereum." Moro told CNBC.
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Based on the original King guitar of the mid '60s (a model that Fender discontinued in the early '70s), the Kingman is a dreadnought-sized instrument that feels a little more svelte than many of its ilk, due to its lightness and relatively slim neck. It plays comfortably—despite the action on our review model being on the high side—and the neck shape and width are quite satisfying. Those who predominantly play electric guitars may only need to switch to lighter strings in order to feel right at home with this axe.
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Dunable Guitars: Asteroid, Cyclops, Yeti et al
br>I don't see these guitars mentioned all that often on the interwebs and certainly not here on MW.
I just bought this beauty off of Sacha Dunable (the creator of the guitars) at the closure of his European Tour with his band "Intronaut". It is a very 'customized' "Cyclops" model.
The specs are as follows:
25.5" scale
roasted swamp ash body with burl top
figured maple fingerboard
mahogany neck with ebony fingerboard and white binding
luminlay side dots
Mastery bridge and trem
Grizzly pickups
(he winds several types) with flame maple covers
volume/tone with coil split switch
side jack
tusq nut
grover sta-tite tuners
I'd first heard about these from Mario of the band
. I caught him at a gig, here in Vienna, and I thought that he was playing a Schecter instead of his usual SG. He introduced me to the brand and told me about how the instruments are specifically designed for lowered tunings. Like Intronaut, Spotlights tune down down a few half-steps. This "Cyclops" is setup and tuned for B-Standard and will likely remain there.
I only own one guitar that I have set up for rather heavy music and it lacks a vibrato. I also love the all-wood look and am really looking forward to receiving this and will update this post after I get to play it for a few days.
Does anyone else here own a Dunable?
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br>Sweet guitar. I recently picked up a Hahn 112 - these small builder solid-body instruments are a treat. Nice to be outside the Jazzmaster/tele/strat universe in terms of pickups, feel and ergonomics.
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br>Indeed. I love Fenders and own many. I think that I've pretty much scratched that itch until I find a vintage Jazzmaster that I like.
Here is a selection of other Dunables that are on Reverb right now. It looks like he has just started getting retailers to carry his wares.
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br>I just took delivery of it today. It is surprisingly light. I was expecting something much heavier in weight. It is lighter than my Jazzmasters and I'd forgotten how heavy JMs actually are.
The guitar has the lightest of poly finishes. I thought that it was, perhaps oiled, but asked Sacha and he put me straight. It feels like touching bare wood. The knot holes (there are only a few) are not filled. The neck is lovely and I regret having to travel for the next four days. Argggh!!!
Feels great, is lightweight, sounds good for sludge-rock (all that I've done at this point) and the neck is super sexy. Will report back in a week or so.
The standout aspects discovered in my hour of whacking on it are the carve of the neck and how it feels unfinished, the weight, the craftsmanship and heavy tones. It's strung 12-52 in Drop-B. Brutal. br> br>
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As part of my efforts to find a job placement during 2012, I have travelled around Manchester and Liverpool. This is an active way to contact architectural practices, and allows me to explore more of Britain's largest cities. Stay tuned for articles on Salford Quays and Liverpool Museum.
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
Final 53
The Steelers officially announced final cuts today. The newly unemployed include rookies Isaac Redman, Sonny Harris, and AQ Shipley. The biggest surprise here is Redman, who presumably lost the final RB roster spot to Frank Summers. Who knows if draft position came into play on this decision or if Summers brought more to the table as a blocking fullback and special teams player. Despite the fan support for Redman, he likely would have had little impact on the gameday roster outside the role of goal line back. Hopefully he, as well as Harris and Shipley, clear waivers and are placed on the practice squad.
Also cut from the team were Carey Davis, Bruce Davis, Donovan Woods, and tackles Jeremy Parquett and Jason Capizzi.
Sean McHugh, the number 3 tight end from a year ago, was placed on IR with knee issues.
A surprising 9 rookies made the squad. Ziggy Hood, Kraig Urbik, Mike Wallace, Keenan Lewis, Frank Summers, Joe Burnett, and David Johnson came from the draft. Ramon Foster was an undrafted free agent. Stefan Logan was signed from the CFL. Another 6 second year players made the team - Rashard Mendenhall, Limas Sweed, Dennis Dixon, Doug Legursky, Ryan Mundy, and Patrick Bailey. In what many are calling one of the deepest and most talented training camps, let's give major credit to Kevin Colbert and the front office staff for doing such a nice job finding young guys. Steeler nation should get used to these names. They are the future.
Lastly, in the "I probably don't even need to mention it" category, preseason sensation Stefan Logan earned a roster spot and will hopefully continue his electric ways as the permanent punt returner.
Without further ado, the 53 men that comprise the 2009 Pittsburgh Steelers (defending Super Bowl Champions):
QBs (3): Ben Roethlisberger, Charlie Batch, Dennis Dixon
RBs (4): Willie Parker, Rashard Mendenhall, Mewelde Moore, Frank Summers
WRs (6): Hines Ward, Santonio Holmes, Limas Sweed, Mike Wallace, Shaun McDonald, Stefan Logan
TE (3): Heath Miller, Matt Spaeth, David Johnson
OL (9): Max Starks, Chris Kemoeatu, Justin Hartwig, Trai Essex, Willie Colon, Tony Hills, Kraig Urbik, Doug Legursky, Ramon Foster
DL (7): Aaron Smith, Casey Hampton, Brett Keisel, Chris Hoke, Ziggy Hood, Nick Eason, Travis Kirschke
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Safeties (4): Troy Polamalu, Ryan Clark, Tyrone Carter, Ryan Mundy
K (1): Jeff Reed
P(1): Dan Sepulveda
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Whatever we do, we must be certain that we are focused on that which will move us effectively forward. Too often we get mired in wishes for the past, focusing on what MIGHT HAVE BEEN, instead of utilizing our experiences as a lesson in wisdom. This is a form of self-sabotage that keeps one comfortably (perhaps) entrenched in the role of the victim, rather than as the leader and co-creator of his/her life.
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Smythe E. Krauss Jr., 86, of Hendersonville died Friday, July 27, 2007, at Pardee Hospital.
He was a native of Wilmington, Del., and lived in Henderson County since 1961. He was a son of the late Smythe E. Krauss and Lula Stradley Krauss. A brother, Harvey Krauss, also preceded him in death.
He attended Goldey Beacom College in Wilmington, Del., and was an accountant prior to his retirement.
He was an Army veteran of World War II, serving in 1944 and 1945, and was involved with the Rhineland campaigns and the Argennes battle, where he was wounded. He was a recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He was a member of the Hendersonville Elks Lodge 1616 BPOE.
Survivors include his wife, Violet Migliore Krauss; two daughters, Sharon Krauss and her husband, John Hannah, of Candler and Pat Renzi of Wilmington, Del.; a grandson, Paul Renzi of Wilmington, Del.; a brother, William B. Krauss of Middletown, Del.; and a number of nieces and nephews.
A funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Forest Lawn Mortuary Chapel. The Rev. William Carpenter will officiate. A flag presentation will be performed by Hubert M. Smith American Legion No. 77, Hedrick-Rhodes Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 5206 and Disabled American Veterans Chapter 14. Entombment will follow in the Forest Lawn Mausoleum.
Forest Lawn Mortuary is assisting the family with the arrangements.


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Issues: Seniors
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
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Learn more about specific issues (coming soon):
Like many of you, my mom is aging and has significant health issues. As a family, we often re-evaluate her ability to live independently and do our best to balance her wish to live on her own with our safety concerns. She, and we, are lucky in that she is still able to take care of herself for the most part, and that we are able to provide what little help she does need. Not all seniors here in Illinois are that lucky and many depend on state services to live in a way that they would like to.
While there are services in Illinois that do provide care, independence and dignity to over 100,000 Illinois seniors; Bruce Rauner's devastating cuts to programs like the Community Care Program were horrendous and will be hard to replace, even with our new budget. As your senator in Springfield, I will be 100% committed to fighting to replace, protect and expand services for seniors.
In addition, as we all know, property taxes hit those with fixed incomes the hardest, putting many seniors at risk of losing a home that they've spent their lives paying for. In addition to fighting to reduce property taxes across-the-board, I will investigate ways to freeze seniors' property tax rates at a lower, reasonable level so they can rest assured that they would not lose their homes over skyrocketing taxes.


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Middlesex Senior Cup, Second Round,
Ashford mustered up a total of seven supporters for last night's match, four of whom were committee men, but they were rewarded with another win, which sees Ashford into the quarter-finals of the Middlesex Senior Cup and an away tie against either Bedfont or Staines Town, whose match was abandoned last night in the first half with the score 0-0.
The first drama came before the game when, for whatever reason, assistant referee Steve Hart failed to show and could not be contacted. By the time a replacement was sourced, the match kicked off 15 minutes late.
Ashford fielded a predominantly 1st team squad although Warren Harris, Vinnie O'Sullivan and big Byron all had a rest on the bench. Ricky Wellard was also absent, receiving treatment back at Short Lane but, hopefully, his injury is less serious than it first looked and he may well be back in contention for Saturday.
Hanwell named just two subs, which suggested they were maybe a little short on personnel but they included ex-Ashford player Blaize O'Brien within their ranks and a quick look at the match programme made it clear that he had lost none of his sharpness in front of goal, with over 20 to his name already for the season.
Hanwell were full of endeavour from the start but Ashford had a little more quality and it showed at times, with Paul Johnson engineering a number of neat moves. It was not all one-way traffic by any means but Ashford always looked the more likely team to score and they did so on the half hour mark with an impressive strike from SCOTT HARRIS, who took full advantage of a flick on from Guy Hollis from Scott Todd's corner.
Three minutes later, it was HARRISagain. He had already hit the post and looked on fire and this was arguably his best goal so far. It came from a long ball delicately touched on by Gavin Smith for Harris to send an unstoppable volley into the net.
The seven supporters were in good heart at half time but Ashford's current tendency to let teams back into a match surfaced again minutes into the second period. A wild clearance from Billy Jeffreys saw Hanwell take a quick throw in, which caught out Brett Cooper and before you knew it, the ball had been crossed leaving O'BRIEN with a clear chance, gratefully accepted,
Hanwell then enjoyed their best period of the game and only an amazing miss from O'Brien, followed by a breath taking stop from Craig Ross, kept Ashford in front. The visitors steadied though and on 66 minutes the two goal cushion was restored. Paul Johnson was heavily involved in a threatening move into the penalty area and he released it beautifully for the advancing ADAM LOGIE to smash into the net.
The Ashford seven settled down to enjoy the rest of the game and hopefully another goal or two but referee Furneaux, who had earlier turned down a very strong penalty appeal when Smith had his legs whipped under him, made himself even less popular when he decided that a tackle from Jeffreys was unfair, despite the fact that he won the ball clean as a whistle. Hanwell sent in a dangerous free kick and KIDMAN was on hand to reduce the deficit once again.
However, with the pitch looking heavier by the minute and with both teams tiring, there were no further goals and Ashford saw out the closing minutes reasonably comfortably. There was one final act of drama though, when Harris spoilt his evening. Having been cautioned earlier, he heard the whistle and thinking it was the end of the match he hoofed the ball away only to find the referee was actually blowing for a free kick to Hanwell. Exit Harris, sent off for two yellow cards. Ten seconds later the referee did blow for full time!
Matches against Step 5 teams in cup competitions are rarely easy and Ashford have only to look back and remember how they almost always used to raise their game against Ryman teams when they were still in the Combined Counties, often with some success. This, therefore, was a good enough win, against opponents who were certainly committed and no bad team with only four league defeats beforehand.


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I Like Mike's Mid Century Modern
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Under The Sea
Last weekend I was surprised by my Future Mother-In-Law and some of my best friends with an Under the Sea themed Kitchen Tea (a South Africanism, that is otherwise known as a Bridal Shower here!) Unbeknownst to me, my FMIL (Future Mother-In-Law), my Maid of Honor, and my Future Hubby all banded together to invite as many of my friends as possible to come celebrate! This is no easy task, as my circle of friends is quite tiny.
I was told that we'd be heading over to FMIL's place to celebrate her birthday with a few drinks before heading to dinner. So I dressed up and followed Future Hubby over to New Jersey. Her place has gorgeous views of the city and the Hudson so I always bring my camera when we head over there.
When I walked in, I was surprised by the girls that were coworkers-turned-friends from my last company and was so excited because I hadn't seen them in three months! After being surprised, FMIL had one more surprise up her sleeve: she flew out Kate! (If you've been following my blog for a while, you know she's the third piece of Alice and I's #DisneySquad.) After all the shock and hugs and hellos were done, we moved to a table of deliciousness! I wasn't able to capture any of the savory treats, but take my word that it was all yum!
As if the surprises of guests weren't enough, I was showered with gifts. Pampering LUSH gift sets... Custom Tsum Tsums... Hand-made lingerie... The most precious set of Ariel ears... And lots of kitchen goods!
"Here At Your Tea"
FMIL's sister and niece even wrote me an adorable version of 'Under the Sea' with all the girls that were there!
As much I've been trying to be my definition of a 'no-fuss bride', I haven't been able to avoid the traditional pre-wedding events: the Engagement Party, this Bridal Shower/Kitchen tea, and this coming weekend, I'll be heading up to Boston for my bachelorette party. Though I know I've been quite the tough cookie (read: stubborn and difficult) about having these parties, I'm grateful for all the love that Future Hubby and I have received during this special time in our lives.
Thank you to everyone who's been part of our journey, from engagement to engagement party to bridal shower to bachelorette party... all the way to our big day.
having you all be a part of our lives is a blessing and we're so incredibly lucky!
Special thanks to Alice for shooting these pictures and my FMIL & Future Hubby for putting this together!


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A majority of your comments and questions were focused on 5 areas:
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Want to know what's in the press about pipelines and property rights? We will stay up to date with news from around the country on the issues and update this page every few months.
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Why there is such a rush to build un-needed pipelines
How high the price tag is for Virginia's pipeline
Price of oil
Pipeline builder Dominion doesn't always make sense
Bismarck Tribune
Another spill-brought to light by a landowner
News Observer.com
North Carolina officials reject a pipeline
LANCASTER ONLINE.com
Protestors block access to the beginning building of the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline
Delco Times.com
Protesting the Mariner East Pipeline
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Looking into improprieties at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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In Virginia a mural goes up to protest the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Associated Press poll shows Americans want leaders to fight global warming
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The injustice of Eminent Domain
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The growing battle over the use of eminent domain to take property for pipelines
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Cuffing Season Is Cancelled
There are a lot of things that are cancelled this year, so lets add this one too. Blame Trump.
A while ago I wrote a post titled "How to respond to Hey Stranger Messages" which discussed some cuffing season etiquettes. This year I gave myself the authority is cancel cuffing season and here by sentence everyone to a celibate winter.
I feel that things like cuffing season are ruining the traditional dating life that I was taught to have. I am supposed to meet a guy I have common interests with, go on a few dates, start a relationship, blink twice and magically find myself at the alter surrounded by beautiful bridesmaids while saying I do. People get really invested in cuffing season and put more time and effort finding a temporary mate than they do a permanent one. It is not a surprise that things like cuffing season are enticing endeavors, we like things stress free and easy. A good Cuffing season has the potential of pairing you with a great person that you can enjoy intimate times with for the duration of the fall and winter months and casually toss them out as soon as the first flower blooms. We envy social media #relationshipgoals but forget to think about the many arguments and disagreements that may have happened before a picturesque engagement. We are so quick to "ghost" people we like because they are thirsty but we get mad when we don't get any attention at all.
The desire for temporary satisfaction only hurts us (or the other person) in the end. If you know in your heart that a lasting relashionship is what you want than take yourself off the Cuffing roster. I find that a lot of my friends (both males and females) experience what I like to call Post Traumatic Cuffing disorder (PTCD). PTCD is a mental health problem (totally made up by me because I'm some type of expert) that some people experience after cuffing season, it can affect anyone (males and females alike) and often carry the following symptoms;
1. Relationship envy- after spending time with a cuff mate legitimate relationship feeling start to develop. You can start referring to the person using pet names (bae, babe, boo etc), which seems harmless but can have lasting and damaging effects.
2. Relocation envy- Cuffing season works best in locations that experience various seasons so someone suffering from PTCD may want to move to places such as Canada or Alaska where the cold weather seasons may last longer.
3. Social Isolation- If you broke cuffing protocol and publicly entertained your cuff mate to the point where others thing you are in a relationship you may be inclined to isolate yourself in the periods following to avoid having to explain to everyone that you are still single.
4. Thot Tendencies- Some people believe that the best way to get over someone is with a new person, false! A PTCD victim may be quick to find a replacement in attempt to recreate what was loss but this only causes more pain.
Treatment for these symptoms are still currently experimental, So for this year I'm just going to cancel the whole thing since yall don't know how to act. I really think there should be a dating master class because people just don't know how to do it anymore. And social media doesn't make it any better. So as the summer days come to an end how about we all reclaim our time and hibernate alone. So this year when the Ex-Boyfriend comes around or homeboy that you went to undergrad with starts sending "hey stranger" messages politely decline. Instead of bothering you he could go and work on that beard that still doesn't connect. And for the guys when that girl from the club keep texting you asking when you're going to take her out kindly tell her you have given your life to Christ and no longer heed to temptresses.
If you are tired of playing games and ready (like for real) to find someone then cuffing season is not the way to go. So go ahead and just erase the Cuffing season draft notifications from your phone, reclaim your time and get more intentional about dating.


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Bench Day. Errday.
I'd like to think I'm a classic case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. Or rather, Dr. Deadlift and Mr. HydeThatBenchPress.
While I'm well on my way to deadlifting 3x my bodyweight, I really struggle on the bench press. I know, I know, #meatheadproblems right?
But when it comes to my bench numbers, the struggle is real. Between May and December of last year, I failed to improve my bench press and if anything, it occasionally seemed like my numbers were going backwards. While my best bench ever was a measly 275 pounds (it's all perspective, right?), in late December I missed a rep at 265. I was frustrated, and frankly, was thinking about benching wayyyy too much for my own good.
(And I'm sorry, but any guys reading this, I don't believe that you benched over 300 in high school. Because you didn't. It's that simple.)
Plus, I have very little patience for something that doesn't work. Want proof? Watch me react when I can't get something to print, or get Netflix to load. On second thought....don't. As both Lindsay and my Mom can attest, it's a lot like this but with less profanity:
After trying different bench variations, and increasing my volume (the usual go-to's for improving the lift), it was clear that I needed a new plan. With New Year's eve looming, I decided that for the first time in a few years I would actually make a New Years resolution: Bench Press every session for the next 40 workouts.
....I mean, did you expect any other type of resolution from me?
To be honest, I stole the idea from Dan John, who is pretty much the Mr. Miyagi of the Strength Coach world. Anytime he recommends an idea, I'm always listening. Plus, my coworker Derek Christeler had tried something similar with his bench press and experienced some pretty good progress.
So before I talk about the exact plan, the results, and how I'm moving forward, I'll quickly share that the plan DOES work. It IS crazy.
But, it's crazy like a fox.
The Plan:
As mentioned above, I decided to bench every training session for the next 40 workouts. I'd never come close to missing a rep, go as light as I need, and simply add weight when it's easy. For reps, I decided to take them directly from Dan John and followed this template:
Week 1
Mon (1) 2 x 5 Tues (2) 2 x 5 Wed (3) 5-3-2 Fri (4) 2 x 5 Sat (5) 2 x 5
Week 2
Mon (6) 2 x 5 Tues (7) 6 Singles Wed (8) 1 x 10 Fri (9) 2 x 5 Sat (10) 5-3-2
After those two weeks, simply start again at Week 1, Day 1. Yes, it's really that easy. No, it's not more complicated.
The Results:
I'll admit that the hardest part was actually swallowing my ego, and starting much, much lighter than I otherwise would. In fact, I started with only 160 on the bar - a full 115 pounds less than my "max." As you can see below, there was a bit of an ebb and flow based on how I felt that day, but the general theme was making the heavier weights seem as easy as 160 that very first day.
Keep in mind, I was doing almost all of this work without a spotter, so I had to be sure I wouldn't miss a rep and end up strangling myself with the bar....that would not be a good look.
But, the last week of the experiment, I managed to hit 270 for a single without a spotter. And while that wasn't technically a PR, it was much smoother than 275, and heavier than the 265 I missed before I started this experiment. If I had a spotter, I would have tried a bit heavier, or had a bit more of a pause at the bottom:
Now, why did this whole crazy experiment work? I credit 1) the practice on technique and 2) confidence. Benching 5 days a week helped me nail down all the tiny techniques I couldn't master before, especially with the load being just a bit lighter than normal. And, since I hadn't missed a rep, I had a feeling that I could bench almost anything that was put on the bar. (When in reality, nothing could be further from the truth...)
Another side benefit is the impact it's had on my shoulder stability. I'm one of those odd ducks that's actually TOO mobile as I can touch my hands behind my back like that woman on the right. But with that extra mobility comes it's own set of problems, as we all don't need to be supple leopards. I've managed to avoid any of those neck/shoulder issues since I started this experiment, which has been pretty awesome.
Moving Forward:
I have to admit I was shocked at how "easy" this experiment truly was. In fact, a week after the experiment ended, I proceeded to hit a new 10 rep PR on the bench press (it was a meathead moment..) I'm anxious to see what happens when the weights really start getting heavy again.
Related, I've started to move my 40 day experiment onto Front Squats - which I'm aptly naming "The Hunt for Quadzilla." In all seriousness, I'm only 8 sessions in, but it's already made it much easier. Stay tuned everybody.