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.
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 …
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 …
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.
How to use the Sketchy Bootstrap theme to make web prototypes look unfinished, helping users understand they are viewing a draft product.
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 …
Learn how to run integration tests with real databases in CI/CD pipelines using Docker, comparing options like InMemory databases and shared test databases.
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.
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 …
Technical Debt is a metaphor for shortcuts and hacks in software that make it more difficult to change and maintain than it could be with an optimal design. Many applications have accumulated a large amount of technical …