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.
If a method you're writing throws exceptions under certain circumstances, such as through guard clauses or other expected conditions, be sure to write tests to verify this behavior. The xUnit test framework has great …
Docker compose can take a while to execute, especially for a large set of containers. Fortunately there's a way to take advantage of extra processors (and any extra bandwidth you may have) by running the build step in …
Want to compare how long a command takes to run with different parameters? Curious how long it takes a multi-step build/test script to run, overall? PowerShell has a command for that.
A lesson I learned early in my career - you don't need to micro-optimize as long as you have fast enough hardware.
A client I'm working with wanted a set of initial decisions and questions their team should address as they begin a new project. I did a bit of research, thinking surely such a list must exist already, but I didn't find …
A recent discussion on devBetter.com about how to model data in a loosely-coupled manner spurred this article which describes a few different ways to model data without referential integrity and foreign keys.
Many developers, even experienced ones, misuse or misunderstand the terms DTO and POCO. They're similar, but different, concepts.
Many automated tests end up being more verbose than necessary, with a lot of plumbing and setup code. Using simple extension methods is one technique you can use to keep tests shorter without making them harder to read …
There's virtually no difference, physiologically, between the sensations and symptoms of fear and excitement. But there is a big difference in how we react based on these feelings, and it's possible to re-think how we …