ASP.NET Core Training – June 2016
If you've been wondering when the time would come for you to start learning about ASP.NET Core, it's quickly approaching.
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.
Speaker Alert
I’ve wanted a decent speaker timer to use during my conference presentations for a while, now. Some of the fancier slide advancers have a timer functionality, but I’m pretty happy with the one I have and I …
Code Quality and Testing – DevIntersection Spring Presentations
This week I presented at the sold-out DevIntersection spring conference, held at the Disney Swan hotel in Orlando, Florida.
Thread Sleep in Tests is Evil
Do you have calls to Thread.Sleep in your test code? If you’re not sure, you can easily find out by opening up the project in Visual Studio and running Find in Files (ctrl-shift F): Thread.Sleep will, not …
ASP.NET Shared Authentication Problem Solved
Last week I worked with a client to solve an issue they were having with a new ASP.NET 4.x application they had created using Visual Studio 2015. Their site is set up so that all of the authentication occurs through a …
How to find all objects in a SQL Server Schema
Use this query to quickly list everything in a given SQL Server Schema.
Logging Method Counts and Durations
Remember the rules of optimization: Don't do it! Don't do it, yet. Avoid premature optmization. Profile before optimizing.
Custom Software Craftsmanship Workshop
Last month I was invited to put on a customized workshop for one of
Configure NLog to Log Application-Specific Data
NLog is one of my favorite.NET loggers. It has a bunch of great
Configure NLog with StructureMap
In a couple of recent posts, I demonstrated how to set up StructureMap 4 in a simple.NET console application, and how to configure NLog to capture and record some app-specific fields with each logged entry (well, to be …