Group Your Constants and Enums
It’s not unusual in applications to have a few constants defined for things you know are never going to change (so you don’t need to store them in the database, or if they are in the database, you don’t …
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.
Developer Insights from StackOverflow 2017 Survey
StackOverflow published the results of their 2017 Developer Survey.
ASPNET Core 2 Preview 1
This week a public preview of ASP.NET Core 2 was made available at
Prefer Custom Exceptions to Framework Exceptions
An easy way to make your software easier to work with, both for
When Should You Upgrade to ASP.NET Core?
ASP.NET Core 1.0 shipped last summer. Then ASP.NET Core 1.1 shipped
Registering Open Generics in ASPNET Core Dependency Injection
If you have a generic interface and implementation that you want to configure for dependency injection in ASP.NET Core startup, there is a simple way to do so. If you only use the generic methods for adding services, …
Are You a Profit Center or a Cost Center?
Understanding whether you're viewed as a profit center or cost center at your company, and how this affects your career and negotiating position.
Share What You Learn (even if you're not an expert)
A lot of people, myself included, suffer from imposter syndrome. That feeling that you're really not good enough to be doing whatever it is you're doing. Maybe it's writing a blog. Maybe it's public speaking. Maybe it's …
Avoid Lazy Loading Entities in ASP.NET Applications
Lazy Loading is an Entity Framework feature that lets you worry less about the specific amount of data you need to fetch with a given query.