Easily Add Images to GitHub
A simple trick to upload images to GitHub for use in README files, docs, etc.
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.
OWASP Training with Juice Shop Sample Application
If you're a web developer looking to get better at security (which should be to say, if you're a web developer), you should check out the OWASP Juice Shop application. It's a purposely insecure web application that …
A Retrospective Retro
At a client today I facilitated a retrospective for the dev team. I’ve done a few of these in the past, both for agile software teams and also After Action Reviews (AARs) in the US Army. For AARs, the usual format …
Configure Sounds for Builds in Visual Studio
Recently Jeff Fritz tweeted about setting up a sound for his twitch stream and Immo Landwerth suggested using it with Visual Studio. I thought this was a great idea and set it up myself in just a few minutes. …
Replace Logo with Icon on Smaller Screens
I’m not a responsive design expert. Or even close. But I did recently figure out how to replace a full logo with a smaller square icon on a web site so when it’s viewed on a phone the header is more compact. …
dev up Conference 2018 (and a small speaking hitch)
This week I was in St. Louis presenting at dev up, a “new” conference that’s actually no so new, as it was previously the St. Louis Day(s) of.NET, which has been a thing for over a decade, I think. This …
Speaking at nopCommerce Days 2018
Next month on 8-9 November I’ll be joining many great speakers in Las Vegas for nopCommerce Days 2018. If you’re unfamiliar with it, nopCommerce is an open source e-commerce solution with a large community of …
Building a CachedRepository in ASPNET Core
Last updated: 13 October 2023 I’m a fan of proper use of design patterns, and you can get big gains from layering multiple patterns together. One prime example of this in web applications is the combination of the …
What's New in ASP.NET Core 2.1
My latest MSDN Magazine feature article covering What’s New in ASP.NET Core 2.1 was published a few days ago: Microsoft recently released ASP.NET Core 2.1 along with.NET Core 2.1 and Entity Framework (EF) Core 2.1. …
Measuring Aggregate Complexity in Software Applications
Cyclomatic complexity is a well-known software metric, but it only applies to individual methods or functions. This article describes an approach that allows these metrics to be aggregated across classes, projects, or …