Year in Review Post Checklist
A checklist listing things to consider including in your year in review article.
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.
Using Grep to Find Strings in Markdown.md Files on Windows
I recently needed to find which of a bunch of markdown files had a particular string in them. My initial thought, since I'm on Windows, was to use Windows File Explorer's search dialog. No dice - it found no results when …
Domain-Driven Design with ASP.NET Core Workshop
I first learned about Domain-Driven Design, or DDD, over ten years ago. Since then, I’ve given more workshops on the topic, both public and private on sites, than I can remember. Julie Lerman and I also published a …
Moving from Controllers and Actions to Endpoints with MediatR
Controllers are dinosaurs - it's time to embrace Endpoints. The MVC pattern doesn't actually work as well for APIs as other options, like the Request-Endpoint-Response (REPR) pattern.
Sketch Themes for Prototypes
Last week during one of my devBetter coaching sessions, the conversation turned to spikes and Minimum Viable Products (and even not-so-viable products). Sometimes, in order to get rapid feedback, it’s useful to …
Be Humble and Kind
This originally went out just to my Weekly Dev Tips mailing list, but I got a lot of positive comments and requests to share it, so I’m publishing it here. Sign up for Weekly Dev Tipsto get a new tip in your inbox …
Running Integration Tests in Build Pipelines with a Real Database
Last updated: 13 October 2023 A pain point for some organizations is figuring out how to run tests that involve databases. These are not unit tests, by most folks’ definition (including my own: unit test or …
Configure Different Implementations for Different Controllers in ConfigureServices
You may find yourself in a position where you need to have two (or more) different implementations of the same interface within your ASP.NET Core application. This may be because your application is too big to allow you …
dotnet-ef does not exist
If you're trying to run EF Core migrations and getting errors, this post has the most common fix - you need to install the CLI tools for Entity Framework Core.
