Blog Posts

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 …

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) …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Applying the Builder Pattern to Improve an Angular Service.

I attended http://www.codemash.org 2018 last week, and it was (as

The other day, someone wrote me to ask: To cut to the chase, I was wondering if, given your experience, you had any recommendations or advice for landing an internship with Microsoft. I work a lot with.NET and Azure …

Now that 2017 is behind us, I thought I’d share some stats and other details about my blog (and podcast and other such things) for those who may be interested. 2017 was a pretty solid year for me as a blogger, and …

I've used the GraphViz tool locally to quickly produce graphs and state diagrams from text input. Recently, I learned about WebGraphViz, which lets you do the same thing from a browser.