WeeklyDevTips Podcast Checklist
I’ve been doing a podcast for a little over six months now, called Weekly Dev Tips. The episodes are just 5-10 minutes long and don’t have a lot of extra fluff - they’re just straight and to the point, …
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.
Positive Reinforcement in Code Reviews
Many developers dread reviews of their code, and one reason for this is probably that most reviewers only offer criticism rather than encouragement. Remember as a code reviewer that you can reinforce the things you see …
Finding Things in Visual Studio 2017
I’m a proponent of small, single-purpose files for most things in software applications. This helps follow certain SOLID principles, like Single Responsibility and Interface Segregation. It also means my …
How to Modify Visual Studio 2017 or Install Preview Versions
When Visual Studio has updates available, you’ll see a notification flag change color at the top of the screen: When you run the update, the installer will also show you if there are other versions available, such …
Improve Performance through Advance Preparation
When looking at tuning application performance, a common principle to follow is this one: Maximize the amount of work not done. It’s hard to make doing something faster than doing nothing, so do nothing whenever …
API Feature Folders
I've written about feature folders for ASP.NET Core before, and how Razor Pages does a great job of solving this problem for page/view-based endpoints. However, I wanted to take a moment to address APIs, which are an …
GitHub Octotree Chrome Extension
If you use GitHub a lot, as I do, you may appreciate this great Chrome extension, Octotree. Octotree is a free extension that adds a treeview navigation control to GitHub (and GitLab Enterprise, according to their docs) …
JavaScript let const and var
In the latest version of JavaScript, there are several ways to declare variables: let, const, and of course, var. If you’ve been using JavaScript for a while, you’re familiar with var, which has been a part …
Improve Tests with the Builder Pattern for Test Data
Note: UPDATED: October 2022 I recently wrote about an example where I was able to apply the Builder Design Pattern to an Angular/TypeScript service. Another area where I’ve been finding the pattern helpful is in …
JavaScript ES6 LINQ Equivalents
As I’m working with JavaScript and TypeScript more and more these days, I often find myself wishing for LINQ statements to use to easily work with collection data. Fortunately, there are equivalents for all of the …