Blog Posts

I created a helpful flow chart to use when answering the question, Should I add caching to my web application (or, " Should I implement caching in my ASP.NET (Core) App")?

Yesterday I presented Design Pattern Mastery at Momentum Dev Con, a first-year regional developer conference held in Cincinnati, Ohio. The event opened up with a Women In Technology panel that was very well-received, and …

My step-by-step checklist for recording and producing Weekly Dev Tips podcast episodes using Audacity, from scripting to uploading.

Why code reviewers should offer encouragement alongside criticism, using positive reinforcement to make reviews more effective and enjoyable.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …