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.

Ultimate Developer Rig 2019

Ultimate Developer Rig 2019

I recently upgraded my desktop developer machine. My goal was to support more docker-based application development including ones that run multiple microservices at the same time, like the eShopOnContainers sample that I …

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Nuget Publication Checklist

Nuget Publication Checklist

Last updated: 13 October 2023 I have a few Nuget packages that I maintain, and when I get a new PR or add a new feature or bugfix, I like to try and get the change out quickly. Unfortunately, this is a somewhat manual …

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Keeping a Work Journal

Keeping a Work Journal

Not long ago I saw a tweet from Brian Hogan describing a tool he uses for journaling while at work. I've kept notes in a variety of formats throughout my career but have never really kept a journal per se, so I thought …

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2018 Year in Review

2018 Year in Review

Now that 2018’s been over for a few weeks, I’ve had a chance to compile some data from a variety of sources that I thought some people might find interesting, including future me. This post will include …

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Load Testing and the Requests per Second Curve

Load Testing and the Requests per Second Curve

There are a few basic curves you look for when load testing. They're pretty much standard, but there's not a lot of information out there about them, specifically. In this post I'm going to just describe one such curve, …

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