Make the Implicit Explicit
When practicing software architecture and design, one important consideration is how the rules of the system are modeled. Are the rules ad hoc and a matter of tribal knowledge of the developers who came before, or are …
Blog Posts
MANY articles on a wide array of topics. You’ll find a lot of my newer content is going to my YouTube channel first, but I do still blog occasionally.
Clean Architecture with ASP.NET Core
Clean Architecture is a way of structuring a solution such that dependencies and infrastructure concerns are kept separate from business logic and the domain model. It's frequently used with Domain-Driven Design and can …
Avoid Using Exceptions to Determine API Status Codes and Responses
It's typical for API endpoints to call application or domain services. In the case of success, the API can simply return Ok and the result of the service call. But for non-success cases, should you use exceptions to …
Screencast Video Demo Checklist
Recording a short screencast video can be a very effective way to provide a demo to stakeholders or show how a bug can be reproduced. Follow this checklist to make sure you don't miss something important.
Markdown Code Block Syntax Highlighting and Diff
If you're writing blog posts, GitHub content, and/or Stack Over flow questions and answers using Markdown, it's often helpful to show code in code blocks of within code fences. Did you know these support many different …
Dotnet Format and File Scoped Namespaces
The dotnet format tool is now a part of the dotnet CLI with.NET 6, and you can use it to easily adopt the new file scoped namespace feature that ships with C# 10.
Design Patterns Overview
Design patterns provide reusable approaches to common problems and allow for higher level discussions of software design. Learn the basics of design patterns, how to recognize and implement them, how to combine them, and …
Better Faster Demos with Screencast Videos
Do you ever need to demo your app to users, customers, or stakeholders? Is it part of your regular software delivery process? What about when you want to describe to a coworker how a new feature should work, or what the …
Grouping Assertions in Tests
Although it's generally considered a best practice to assert only one thing per test, sometimes one logical " thing" may require multiple assertion statements to be executed. In such cases, it's helpful to be able to see …
GitHub Actions On Demand
You can configure certain GitHub actions so that they can be triggered on demand, not just when a commit is added or merged.