Blog Posts

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.

How to become master writing C# code. The discussion that followed had a lot of great ideas and insights, from many well-respected and experienced C# developers.

In a previous article, I wrote about the Strongly Typed Enum

I’ve written a while back about what a good idea it is for companies to incentivize both parties with their referral programs. A couple of recent companies who are following this strategy are Coinbase and Square …

Here are two tips that teams I work with have found useful when working with git for larger projects with many team members that I thought I would share: Only merge into master if code is working The first tip is that …

When you’re building web applications and you’re setting up continuous integration and delivery pipelines, it’s worthwhile to know which particular version of the application is deployed to a given …

Here's a quick tip: If you're adding a new Razor Page to an ASP.NET Core 2.0+ project, and you add a codebehind model class, but then when you try to use it you get a NullReferenceException, this might be why. First, …

If you're exposing a Web API, one of the most basic things you

Encapsulation is a key principle of software development in