cliff.simpkins, Author at Cliff Simpkins

Defining DevRel Success Measures: Introduction and Current State

Developer Relations sits at a fascinating intersection of Marketing, Product, and Engineering. After years in this space, I’ve learned that measuring success is as much Dark Art as it is…

cliff.simpkins April 24, 2025

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Best Practices - DevRel and DevMar Research

Modern Developer Personas: A Motivation-Based Framework

For years, I've watched organizations struggle to create effective developer personas. Marketing teams focus on job titles, product teams build customer archetypes, and DevRel teams focus on technical communities. The…

cliff.simpkins March 28, 2025

3D Printing

Printing D&D minis with my new printer

I bought a new Bambu Labs P1S 3D Printer in January and spent most of February learning how to use it. This post captures my top learnings and shares some…

cliff.simpkins March 19, 2025

Funemployment

#NewBeginnings

With the new year came new changes. Okta and I parted ways in December, and I've been taking the last couple of months to recharge and tackle a long backlog…

cliff.simpkins March 6, 2025

Windows

Previewing SVG files in Windows

Mar-4-2024 Update: I updated the post to use Microsoft PowerToys It’s surprisingly easy to show Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) file previews in Windows Explorer, by using a Windows Explorer Extension.…

cliff.simpkins March 4, 2025

PowerPoint

How SVG images enable more colors and transparency (PowerPoint Tip)

Vector graphics provide a lot of visual flexibility in PowerPoint. In this short blog post, I’d like to highlight how to add them into your PPTX, and some cool tricks…

cliff.simpkins March 3, 2018

Research Windows Phone

Looking for #WPDev opinions

Post Update: I removed survey links because it closed In October, I’m interested in getting thoughts and opinions from the Windows platform development community in my ~annual pulse of the Windows…

cliff.simpkins October 2, 2014

Windows Phone

SQLite on WP – DB schema management

As I started working with SQLite as a place to store my data, I began thinking about my app’s changing data scheme and I wondered: ‘how do I handle change…

cliff.simpkins September 15, 2014

Windows Phone

SQLite on WP–FileNotFoundException and how to deal with it

While I was reinstalling my laptop this week, I ran into some friction getting my Brick Manager development environment going again. My issue turned out to be pretty simple, and…

cliff.simpkins September 5, 2014

Windows Phone

WPDev: Talking to XML web services

This blog post starts to cover a number of interesting Windows platform development challenges that I ran into as I built out my Brick Manager app. While the code was…

cliff.simpkins July 6, 2014