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Total Posts : 323

2025 Posts : 114

April 2025 - 24 Posts

Week 17

• Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 8 - Compressor Implementation - Thursday, 24 April 2025

  [.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, StarLibrary, Moq]

• Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 7 - Sequence Verification With Moq - Wednesday, 23 April 2025

  [.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, StarLibrary, Moq]

• Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 6 - Mocking & Behaviour Tests - Tuesday, 22 April 2025

  [.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, StarLibrary, Moq]

• Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 5 - Component Implementation - Monday, 21 April 2025

  [.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design]

Week 16

• Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 4 - Types & Contracts - Sunday, 20 April 2025

  [.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design]

• Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 3 - Project Setup - Saturday, 19 April 2025

  [.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design]

• Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 2 - Basic Requirements - Friday, 18 April 2025

  [.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design]

• Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 1 - Introduction - Thursday, 17 April 2025

  [.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design]

• Resolve IPAddress From Domain In C# - Wednesday, 16 April 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• Using NewLines In SQL - Tuesday, 15 April 2025

  [SQL]

• Beware - Environment.NewLine Is Not A Silver Bullet - Monday, 14 April 2025

  [C#, .NET]

Week 15

• Using Serilog & Structured Logging In Testing - Part 3 - Testing Log Messages - Sunday, 13 April 2025

  [Testing, xUnit, Serilog]

• Using Serilog & Structured Logging In Testing - Part 2 - Configuring Logging Destinations - Saturday, 12 April 2025

  [Testing, xUnit, Serilog]

• Using Serilog & Structured Logging In Testing - Part 1 - Logging Test Output - Friday, 11 April 2025

  [Testing, xUnit, Serilog]

• Getting Repository Git Information - Thursday, 10 April 2025

  [Git, Source Control]

• Using State Machines In .NET - Part 12 - State Activation & Entry - Wednesday, 9 April 2025

  [C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

• Tip - Initialzing Large Arrays With A Known Value - Tuesday, 8 April 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• Using State Machines In .NET - Part 11 - Logic Based On How A State Was Transitioned - Monday, 7 April 2025

  [C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

Week 14

• Using State Machines In .NET - Part 10 - Generating State Diagrams - Sunday, 6 April 2025

  [C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

• Using State Machines In .NET - Part 9 - Calling Asynchronous Methods - Saturday, 5 April 2025

  [C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

• AwesomeAssertions - Drop-In Replacement For FluentAssertions - Friday, 4 April 2025

  [Testing, FluentAssertions, StarLibrary]

• Hello World From Java 24 - Thursday, 3 April 2025

  [Java]

• Using State Machines In .NET - Part 8 - Firing Events Before State Change - Wednesday, 2 April 2025

  [C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

• Fix - Content Negotiation With Post Request - Expected a supported JSON media type but got "" - Tuesday, 1 April 2025

  [Carter, ASP.NET]

March 2025 - 31 Posts

Week 14

• Using State Machines In .NET - Part 7 - Conditional State Transitions - Monday, 31 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

Week 13

• Using State Machines In .NET - Part 6 - Firing Events On State Change - Sunday, 30 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

• Tip - Adding Projects To Solutions Via Command Line - Saturday, 29 March 2025

  [Tips, C#, .NET]

• Using State Machines In .NET - Part 5 - Using Complex & Nested States - Friday, 28 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

• Using State Machines In .NET - Part 4 - Using Multiple Triggers - Thursday, 27 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

• Using State Machines In .NET - Part 3 - Setting Initial State - Wednesday, 26 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

• Using State Machines In .NET - Part 2 - Basic Usage - Tuesday, 25 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

• Using State Machines In .NET - Part 1 - Introduction - Monday, 24 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

Week 12

• Collection Expressions & Dictionaries - Sunday, 23 March 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• Threading Issue When Populating MemoryCache - Saturday, 22 March 2025

  [C#, MemoryCache, StarLibrary, LazyCache]

• Improving ASP.NET Content Negotiation XML Serialization Performance Using A RecyclableMemoryStream - Friday, 21 March 2025

  [ASP.NET, C#, XML, JSON, StarLibrary, Carter]

• SLNX - New .NET Solution File Format - Thursday, 20 March 2025

  [.NET, Visual Studio]

• Organizing .NET Projects With Solutions - Wednesday, 19 March 2025

  [.NET, Visual Studio]

• Conditionally Output CSV Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Tuesday, 18 March 2025

  [ASP.NET, C#, XML, JSON, CSV, StarLibrary, Carter, CSVHelper]

• Conditionally Output XML Or JSON Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Monday, 17 March 2025

  [ASP.NET, C#, XML, JSON, StarLibrary, Carter]

Week 11

• Changing The Port Of An ASP.NET Web Application Or API - Sunday, 16 March 2025

  [ASP.NET, C#, .NET]

• Controlling Publishing Of Satellite Resource Assemblies - Saturday, 15 March 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• Tip - Configuring Insomnia Timeout - Friday, 14 March 2025

  [Insomnia]

• Beware - Order Of DataTable Column Definitions Matters For User Defined Table Type Mapping - Thursday, 13 March 2025

  [SQL Server, C#, NET]

• Dapper Part 15 - Using the IN Clause - Wednesday, 12 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

• Dapper Part 14 - Multithreading - Tuesday, 11 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

• Dapper Part 13 - Using Transactions - Monday, 10 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

Week 10

• Tip - Quickly Upgrade Docker Containers - Sunday, 9 March 2025

  [Docker]

• Dapper Part 12 - Alternative Bulk Insert Technique - Saturday, 8 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

• Dapper Part 11 - Using Inheritance - Friday, 7 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

• Dapper Part 10 - Handling Cancellations - Thursday, 6 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

• Dapper Part 9 - Using Dynamic Types - Wednesday, 5 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

• Dapper Part 8 - Controlling Database Timeouts - Tuesday, 4 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

• Dapper Part 7 - Adding DateOnly & TimeOnly Support - Monday, 3 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

Week 09

• Dapper Part 6 - Returning Multiple Sets Of Results - Sunday, 2 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

• Dapper Part 5 - Passing Data In Bulk To The Database - Saturday, 1 March 2025

  [C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

February 2025 - 28 Posts

Week 09

• Dapper Part 4 - Passing Data To And From The Database - Friday, 28 February 2025

  [C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

• Dapper Part 3 - Executing Queries - Thursday, 27 February 2025

  [C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

• Dapper Part 2 - Querying The Database - Wednesday, 26 February 2025

  [C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

• Simpler .NET Data Access With Dapper - Part 1 - Tuesday, 25 February 2025

  [C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

• How SQL Injection Works - Part 2 - Monday, 24 February 2025

  [Security, .NET, SQL]

Week 08

• How SQL Injection Works - Part 1 - Sunday, 23 February 2025

  [Security, .NET, SQL]

• Using Case Insensitive Dictionary Keys In C# & .NET - Saturday, 22 February 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• Configuring JSON Responses With ASP.NET - Friday, 21 February 2025

  [C#, .NET, ASP.NET]

• Enums & Enum Flags In C# & .NET For Dummies - Thursday, 20 February 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• Some Useful Integer Helper Methods In .NET - Wednesday, 19 February 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• Getting A List Of Available Docker Image Tags From The Command Line - Tuesday, 18 February 2025

  [Docker]

• Creating Reproducible Builds With global.json - Monday, 17 February 2025

  [.NET]

Week 07

• View Request & Response Headers For HTTP Requests In C# & .NET - Sunday, 16 February 2025

  [C#, NET]

• Using Frozen Collections For Immutability - Saturday, 15 February 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• Getting The Executing .NET Version - Friday, 14 February 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• Determining The Largest (& Smallest) Values For Numeric Types In .NET - Thursday, 13 February 2025

  [C#, NET]

• Using Base64 To Encode Binary Data - Wednesday, 12 February 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• Is That String Null, Empty, Or WhiteSpace? - Tuesday, 11 February 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• Executing Actions In Parallel With Parallel.Invoke - Monday, 10 February 2025

  [C#, .NET]

Week 06

• Immutable Types In C# & .NET - Sunday, 9 February 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• Pipelining Task Results With Task.WhenEach - Saturday, 8 February 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• Parallelizing Work With C# & .NET - Friday, 7 February 2025

  [C#, .NET, Performance]

• Using LINQ OfType To Filter Collections By Type - Thursday, 6 February 2025

  [C#, NET]

• Using Deconstructors In C# - Wednesday, 5 February 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• Using LINQ Repeat To Generate Copies Of Objects - Tuesday, 4 February 2025

  [C#, .NET, LINQ]

• Using LINQ Concat To Merge Collections - Monday, 3 February 2025

  [C#, .NET, LINQ]

Week 05

• Using LINQ UnionBy To Merge Collections - Sunday, 2 February 2025

  [C#, .NET, LINQ]

• Scheduling Tasks With The PeriodicTimer - Saturday, 1 February 2025

  [C#, .NET]

January 2025 - 31 Posts

Week 05

• Beware - Mapping Classes With ReadOnly Properties Using Dapper With VB.NET, C# & F# - Friday, 31 January 2025

  [C#, Dapper, VB.NET, F#]

• Lazy Initialization With System.Lazy - Thursday, 30 January 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• Using Indexes With LINQ - Wednesday, 29 January 2025

  [C#, LINQ, .NET]

• Set Operations With LINQ - Tuesday, 28 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, LINQ]

• Using LINQ Zip To Combine Collections - Monday, 27 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, LINQ]

Week 04

• Using LINQ Aggregate & AggregateBy To Perform Aggregate Computations - Sunday, 26 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, LINQ]

• Using LINQ SelectMany To Flatten Collections - Saturday, 25 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, LINQ]

• Using LINQ GroupJoin To Perform Grouped Joins - Friday, 24 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, LINQ]

• Fix - Visual Studio Code Auto-Creates A Solution File - Thursday, 23 January 2025

  [VS Code, Fixes]

• FluentAssertions - A Pragmatic Roadmap To What Next - Wednesday, 22 January 2025

  [Testing, FluentAssertions]

• Performance Issues With Guid Primary Keys - Tuesday, 21 January 2025

  [C#, Database]

• Using A LINQ Pipeline To Solve Problems - Monday, 20 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, LINQ]

Week 03

• Using Groups To Apply Common Functionality To WebAPI EndPoints - Sunday, 19 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, Security, ASP.NET]

• Evaluating Multiple Test Assertions At Once With FluentAssertions - Saturday, 18 January 2025

  [Testing, FluentAssertions]

• Primary Constructors - And Their Pitfalls - Friday, 17 January 2025

  [C#, .NET]

• There Be Dragons - FluentAssertions 8 New Licensing - Thursday, 16 January 2025

  [Testing, FluentAssertions]

• Locale & Culture Support For Kenyan Languages In .NET - Wednesday, 15 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, Globalization]

• Validating .NET Settings Part 4 - Validating Using IValidateOptions - Tuesday, 14 January 2025

  [C#, Validation]

• Validating .NET Settings Part 3 - Validating Using Data Annotations - Monday, 13 January 2025

  [C#, Validation]

Week 02

• Validating .NET Settings Part 2 - Validating Using FluentValidation - Sunday, 12 January 2025

  [C#, Validation]

• Validating .NET Settings Part 1 - Manual Validation - Saturday, 11 January 2025

  [C#, Validation]

• Unit Testing Fractional Values In C# & .NET - Friday, 10 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, Testing]

• Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 10 - Conclusion - Thursday, 9 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]

• Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 9 - Life Cycles - Wednesday, 8 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]

• Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 8 - Types Of Dependency Injection - Tuesday, 7 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]

• Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 7 - Integration Testing - Monday, 6 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]

Week 01

• Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 6 - Implementation Testing - Sunday, 5 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]

• Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 5 - Making All Implementations Available - Saturday, 4 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]

• Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 4 - Making Implementations Hot-Pluggable - Friday, 3 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]

• Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 3 - Making Implementations Pluggable - Thursday, 2 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]

• Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 2 - Making Implementations Swappable - Wednesday, 1 January 2025

  [C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]

2024 Posts : 47

December 2024 - 31 Posts

Week 01

• Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 1 - Introduction & Basic Implementation - Tuesday, 31 December 2024

  [C#, .NET, Architecture]

• Downloading Files With ASP.NET Core Minimal API - Monday, 30 December 2024

  [ASP.NET, C#]

Week 52

• Uploading Files With ASP.NET Core Minimal API - Sunday, 29 December 2024

  [ASP.NET, C#]

• Correctly Getting The Week Number In C# - Saturday, 28 December 2024

  [C#, Dates & Times, StarLibrary]

• Using The Lock In C# & .NET 9 - Friday, 27 December 2024

  [C#, .NET 9, Threading]

• Beware - Handling Of 2 Digit Years In SQL Server T-SQL - Thursday, 26 December 2024

  [SQL Server, T-SQL]

• Correctly Processing CSV Files In C# & .NET - Wednesday, 25 December 2024

  [C#, .NET, StarLibrary]

• Check If You Have The Latest .NET SDK - Tuesday, 24 December 2024

  [C#, .NET]

• Advanced Customization Of The Display Of Dates In C# - Monday, 23 December 2024

  [C#, Dates & Times]

Week 51

• Caching In .NET Applications & The Hybrid Cache - Sunday, 22 December 2024

  [C#, Caching]

• Using The u8 String Literal - Saturday, 21 December 2024

  [C#]

• How To Work With Different Numbering Systems In C# - Friday, 20 December 2024

  [C#]

• Customizing Object Equality In C# & .NET - Thursday, 19 December 2024

  [C#, .NET, Domain Design]

• Using AggregateBy In C# & .NET 9 - Wednesday, 18 December 2024

  [C#, .NET 9, LINQ]

• Checking Collections Have The Same Elements - Tuesday, 17 December 2024

  [C#]

• Handing JSON Deserialization In The Wild - Monday, 16 December 2024

  [C#, JSON]

Week 50

• Simplified Hashing In .NET 9 - Sunday, 15 December 2024

  [Security, .NET 9]

• Using LINQ CountBy In .NET 9 - Saturday, 14 December 2024

  [C#, .NET 9, LINQ]

• Determining The Number Of Days In A Year In C# - Friday, 13 December 2024

  [C#]

• Configuring Docker Compose RabbitMQ Settings For A Docker Container - Thursday, 12 December 2024

  [Docker, RabbitMQ]

• Loading & Using Application Settings In .NET - Wednesday, 11 December 2024

  [C#, .NET, Configuration]

• LinqPad For OSX Beta Is Out - Tuesday, 10 December 2024

  [.NET, OSX, LinqPad]

• Writing Minimal APIs For HEAD Requests - Monday, 9 December 2024

  [C#, ASP.NET, Minimal API]

Week 49

• Sending & Receiving JSON With A HttpClient In C# - Sunday, 8 December 2024

  [C#, HttpClient]

• Sending a HTTP HEAD Request With A HttpClient In C# - Saturday, 7 December 2024

  [C#, HttpClient]

• Required Properties vs Constructors In Domain Objects - Friday, 6 December 2024

  [C#, Design, Art Of Software]

• Ordered Dictionary Improvements In .NET 9 - Thursday, 5 December 2024

  [C#, .NET 9]

• Removing Items From A Priority Queue - Wednesday, 4 December 2024

  [C#, .NET 9]

• Using LINQ Index - Tuesday, 3 December 2024

  [C#, LINQ, .NET 9]

• Random Sampling In F# - Monday, 2 December 2024

  [F#]

Week 48

• Choosing From A Collection In F# - Sunday, 1 December 2024

  [F#]

November 2024 - 9 Posts

Week 48

• How Old Is Your Programming Language (2024 Edition) - Saturday, 30 November 2024

  [Epiphanies, Languages]

• Improved Collection Shuffling In F# - Friday, 29 November 2024

  [F#]

• Truncating Numbers In C# - Thursday, 28 November 2024

  [C#, .NET]

• Getting Your IDE To Recognize Domain Specific Languages - Wednesday, 27 November 2024

  [Rider, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code]

• Formatting Json On The Terminal / Command Line - Tuesday, 26 November 2024

  [JSON]

• Storing Common Application Settings For A .NET Application In MacOS OSX - Monday, 25 November 2024

  [C#, .NET, OSX]

Week 47

• Pretty Printing Unformatted Json In C# - Sunday, 24 November 2024

  [C#, .NET]

• Determining The Operating System C# .NET Program Is Running Under - Saturday, 23 November 2024

  [C#, .NET]

• Running Multiple .NET Versions In MacOS OSX - Friday, 22 November 2024

  [.NET, C#]

June 2024 - 1 Posts

Week 23

• A Rose By Any Other Name - Short Circuiting - Wednesday, 5 June 2024

  [C#, VB.NET]

April 2024 - 2 Posts

Week 14

• Using Inheritance With FluentValidation - Saturday, 6 April 2024

  [C#, .NET, FluentValidation]

• Dogs Will Always Bark - Part I - You Make I Check - Friday, 5 April 2024

  [The Business Of Software, Human Nature]

March 2024 - 3 Posts

Week 11

• Correctly Setting HttpClient BaseAddress - Sunday, 17 March 2024

  [.NET, C#, HttpClient]

• How Long Is A String - Sunday, 17 March 2024

  [Business Of Software]

• Verifying File Hashes With PowerShell (Update) - Wednesday, 13 March 2024

  [PowerShell, Tips]

February 2024 - 1 Posts

Week 08

• Tip - Don't Log Exceptions With Log.Information - Friday, 23 February 2024

  [C#, .NET, Tips]

2023 Posts : 11

November 2023 - 1 Posts

Week 44

• Did You Know - An Email Body Is Optional - Friday, 3 November 2023

  [Did You Know]

August 2023 - 2 Posts

Week 33

• Defining Relationships With Enum Attributes For Enum Values In C# - Friday, 18 August 2023

  [C#]

Week 31

• Tip - Using JsonSerializationOptions With Refit - Wednesday, 2 August 2023

  [C#, .NET, Refit]

July 2023 - 3 Posts

Week 29

• Fix - HttpClient Changes Case Of x-request-id Header - Friday, 21 July 2023

  [C#, .NET, HttpClient]

• Projecting Named Tuples In Entity Framework Core - Monday, 17 July 2023

  [Entity Framework Core, C#, .NET]

Week 27

• Tip - Fluent Validation With Null Values - Thursday, 6 July 2023

  [.NET, Validation, Libraries, Tips]

May 2023 - 3 Posts

Week 21

• Accessing SQL Server Configuration Manager - Monday, 22 May 2023

  [SQL Server]

Week 20

• Why Doesn't Windows Have A Built In Dictionary? - Tuesday, 16 May 2023

  [Business Of Software]

Week 18

• Writing Maintainable, Testable Code That Depends On The Current Time - Wednesday, 3 May 2023

  [C#, .NET, Design, Maintainability]

March 2023 - 1 Posts

Week 13

• How To Use C# List Pattern Matching Practically - Tuesday, 28 March 2023

  [C#, .NET]

February 2023 - 1 Posts

Week 07

• Building Directory Paths In C# - Tuesday, 14 February 2023

  [C#]

2022 Posts : 37

December 2022 - 1 Posts

Week 50

• Writing A Custom DateOnly JSON Deserializer - Tuesday, 13 December 2022

  [C#]

November 2022 - 5 Posts

Week 48

• Stop Press - Running Linux GUI Applications In Windows - Monday, 28 November 2022

  [Windows, Linux, WSL]

Week 47

• How To Index A NVarchar(MAX) Column In SQL Server - Saturday, 26 November 2022

  [SQL Server]

• Handling Null And Empty Strings With System.Text.Json - Part 2 - Monday, 21 November 2022

  [C#, System.Text.Json]

Week 46

• Enabling TCP/IP For SQL Server - Saturday, 19 November 2022

  [SQL Server]

Week 45

• Required Keyword In C# 11 & .NET 7 - Saturday, 12 November 2022

  [C#, .NET]

October 2022 - 10 Posts

Week 43

• Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Constructing Dates - Monday, 24 October 2022

  [SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, Tips]

Week 42

• Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Reorder Lines - Thursday, 20 October 2022

  [SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, Tips]

• Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Duplicate Tab - Monday, 17 October 2022

  [SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, Tips]

• Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Server Colouring - Monday, 17 October 2022

  [SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, Tips, RedGate]

• Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Reorder Results - Monday, 17 October 2022

  [SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, Tips]

Week 41

• Microsecond Precision In .NET - Saturday, 15 October 2022

  [C#, .NET 7]

• How To Order Classes And Records In C# - Friday, 14 October 2022

  [C#, .NET 7, LINQ]

• Tip - Simpler LINQ Ordering In .NET 7 - Thursday, 13 October 2022

  [Tips, C#, LINQ, .NET 7]

Week 40

• Tip - Using LINQ To Filter A List Of Strings Containing Words In Another List - Tuesday, 4 October 2022

  [C#, LINQ, Tips]

Week 39

• Tip - Grouping Correctly In LINQ With VB.NET - Sunday, 2 October 2022

  [VB.NET, LINQ, Tips]

August 2022 - 2 Posts

Week 33

• Building URLs In C# Without Concatenation Or Interpolation - Monday, 15 August 2022

  [C#, .NET]

Week 31

• Using HttpClient To Post JSON In C# & .NET - Monday, 1 August 2022

  [C#, .NET]

July 2022 - 1 Posts

Week 29

• Punched In The Face Or In The Stomach - Tuesday, 19 July 2022

  [Business Of Software]

June 2022 - 1 Posts

Week 25

• Conmen, Charlatans And Software Developers - Monday, 20 June 2022

  [Business Of Software]

May 2022 - 5 Posts

Week 21

• Beware - Mapping Inherited Immutable Classes Using Dapper - Wednesday, 25 May 2022

  [C#, Dapper]

• Linux Tools Packaged With Windows - Wednesday, 25 May 2022

  [Windows]

• Fix - Python - Warning- Ignoring Invalid Distribution - Wednesday, 25 May 2022

  [Python, Fixes]

Week 20

• Fix - SSL Provider, error 0 - The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted - Monday, 16 May 2022

  [C#, .NET, SQL Server, Fixes]

Week 19

• About curl And PowerShell - Tuesday, 10 May 2022

  [C#, .NET]

April 2022 - 3 Posts

Week 17

• Adding Multiple Items To A HashSet In C# - Thursday, 28 April 2022

  [C#]

Week 16

• What Amazon AWS Local Zones Mean For ICT In Kenya - Monday, 18 April 2022

  [Business Of Software, Amazon, Azure, Google]

Week 14

• Tip - HttpUtility.UrlEncode vs WebUtility.UrlEncode - Thursday, 7 April 2022

  [C#, .NET, Tips]

March 2022 - 6 Posts

Week 13

• Tip - Updating The Nuget Client - Thursday, 31 March 2022

  [Tips, .NET]

• Cleaner Code With Switch Expressions In C# - Tuesday, 29 March 2022

  [C#, Algorithms]

Week 12

• Fetching Table Data From Web Pages Using Excel - Monday, 21 March 2022

  [Excel, PowerUser, Office]

Week 10

• If Your Grandmother Had Wheels - She Wouldn't Be A Bicycle - Its ALWAYS Harder Than You Think - Saturday, 12 March 2022

  [Business Of Software]

• Using 'TRUE' and 'FALSE' For Bit Types In SQL Server - Saturday, 12 March 2022

  [SQL, SQL Server]

• Maintainability Of Code - Friday, 11 March 2022

  [C#, Design]

February 2022 - 1 Posts

Week 06

• Standing In A Garage Doesn't Make You A Car - Why You Cant Just "Hire Developers" - Thursday, 10 February 2022

  [Business Of Software]

January 2022 - 2 Posts

Week 03

• Coding Is Easy - Any Monkey Can Do It. Software, However Is Very Hard - Monday, 17 January 2022

  [Business Of Software]

Week 02

• All Sons Are Handsome; All Daughters Are Beautiful - Pitching Enterprise Software - Monday, 10 January 2022

  [Business Of Software]

2021 Posts : 73

December 2021 - 2 Posts

Week 51

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 30 - Simplified Argument Null Checks - Tuesday, 21 December 2021

  [.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

Week 49

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 29 - Writing Raw JSON Using Utf8JsonWriter - Monday, 6 December 2021

  [.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

November 2021 - 10 Posts

Week 48

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 28 - JSON Serialization To & From Streams - Monday, 29 November 2021

  [.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

Week 47

• Tip - SQL Server User Defined Table Types - Column Order Matters - Wednesday, 24 November 2021

  [SQL Server]

Week 46

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 27 - Extended Property Patterns - Friday, 19 November 2021

  [.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

Week 45

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 26 - Sealed ToString() In Records - Friday, 12 November 2021

  [.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 25 - Hot Reload - Tuesday, 9 November 2021

  [.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• .NET 6 Release - Tuesday, 9 November 2021

  [.NET, C#]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 24 - Parallel.ForEachAsync - Monday, 8 November 2021

  [.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

Week 44

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 23 - Nullable References - Thursday, 4 November 2021

  [.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 22 - LINQ Default Parameters - Tuesday, 2 November 2021

  [.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 21 - Constant Interpolated Strings - Monday, 1 November 2021

  [.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

October 2021 - 10 Posts

Week 43

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 20 - Json Property Ordering - Wednesday, 27 October 2021

  [.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

Week 42

• Saving Collections Of Primitives In Entity Framework Core - Thursday, 21 October 2021

  [C#, Entity Framework Core]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 19 - Record Structs - Thursday, 21 October 2021

  [.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• .NET 6 Release Candidate 2 Out - Monday, 18 October 2021

  [.NET, C#]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 18 - File Scoped Namespaces - Monday, 18 October 2021

  [.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

Week 41

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 17 - New Timer - PeriodicTimer - Tuesday, 12 October 2021

  [.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

Week 40

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 16 - HTTP/3 Support - Thursday, 7 October 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• Installing .NET 6 On Linux - Thursday, 7 October 2021

  [.NET, C#]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 15 - SOCKS Proxy Support - Tuesday, 5 October 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

Week 39

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 14 - Implicit Usings - Friday, 1 October 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

September 2021 - 15 Posts

Week 39

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 13 - LINQ Improvements - Chunk - Wednesday, 29 September 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 12 - Collection Count Performance Improvement - Tuesday, 28 September 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

Week 38

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 11 - LINQ Improvements - Range Support - Friday, 24 September 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 10 - SDK & Runtime Version Checking - Thursday, 23 September 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 9 - LINQ Improvements - DistinctBy - Wednesday, 22 September 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 8 - Control Of Serialization Of Object Cycles - Tuesday, 21 September 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• .NET 6 Release Candidate 1 Out - Tuesday, 21 September 2021

  [.NET, C#]

Week 37

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 7 - Simpler Web Application Development - Tuesday, 14 September 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 6 - Priority Queue - Monday, 13 September 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

Week 36

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 5 - Mathematics API Additions - Friday, 10 September 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 4 - LINQ Improvements - MaxBy & MinBy - Thursday, 9 September 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 3 - TimeOnly Type - Wednesday, 8 September 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 2 - Friendly To Newcomers - Tuesday, 7 September 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

• 30 Days Of .NET 6 - DateOnly Type - Monday, 6 September 2021

  [C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

Week 35

• Fix - .NET 6 Not Being Recognized After Install - Friday, 3 September 2021

  [.NET]

August 2021 - 4 Posts

Week 35

• About Software Bloat - Monday, 30 August 2021

  [Business Of Software]

Week 34

• Fix - Docker Error On Upgrade - aufs storage - Wednesday, 25 August 2021

  [Linux, Docker]

Week 32

• Fix - Unavailable Resource Error When Posting HTTP Request To Teams - Friday, 13 August 2021

  [Teams]

Week 31

• Tip - Get Current Date In C# - Saturday, 7 August 2021

  [C#, Tips]

July 2021 - 5 Posts

Week 30

• Reducing Bugs And Improving Maintainability Through Better Domain Design - Thursday, 29 July 2021

  [C#, Design]

• Sending Teams Messages Using PowerShell - Thursday, 29 July 2021

  [Teams, PowerShell]

Week 29

• Better Assertion Testing With FluentAssertions - Sunday, 25 July 2021

  [Testing, XUnit, NUnit]

Week 26

• The Value Of Good Documentation - Saturday, 3 July 2021

  [Business Of Software, Documentation]

• Beware - F# Doesn't Support C# Types Using Init Modifiers - Friday, 2 July 2021

  [F#, Interop]

June 2021 - 5 Posts

Week 25

• On Career Progression - Tuesday, 22 June 2021

  [Personal Development, Career, Business Of Software]

Week 24

• Tip - Locating Commands In The Path On Windows - Monday, 14 June 2021

  [Tips]

Week 23

• Tip - TimeSpan Minutes vs TotalMinutes - Friday, 11 June 2021

  [C#, Time, Tips]

• The Cost Of Adding Features To Software - Thursday, 10 June 2021

  [Business Of Software]

• Fix - Docker For Windows Not Running - Wednesday, 9 June 2021

  [Fixes, Docker]

May 2021 - 4 Posts

Week 22

• Gitlab HTTP Authentication With 2FA - Monday, 31 May 2021

  [Tools, Gitlab]

Week 21

• About Default Interface Impementations - Monday, 24 May 2021

  [C#]

• The Other Integer Types - Monday, 24 May 2021

  [C#]

Week 18

• Tip - Making Use Of Windows Terminal Tab Captions - Tuesday, 4 May 2021

  [Tips, Windows Terminal]

April 2021 - 2 Posts

Week 16

• Fix For The string argument propertyNames cannot be empty - Sunday, 25 April 2021

  [Entity Framework Core, C#, Fixes]

Week 14

• Disqus Off - Tuesday, 6 April 2021

  [Meta]

March 2021 - 5 Posts

Week 11

• Using System.Text.Json To Enforce API Logic - Saturday, 20 March 2021

  [Design, API, System.Text.Json]

Week 10

• Deleting RabbitMQ Queues With EasyNetQ - Thursday, 11 March 2021

  [RabbitMQ, EasyNetQ]

• Fix For Cannot use LINQ in MatchCollection Regex with .NET Standard 2 - Wednesday, 10 March 2021

  [C#, LINQ, Fixes]

• Handling Null And Empty Strings With System.Text.Json - Tuesday, 9 March 2021

  [C#, System.Text.Json]

Week 09

• Inheritance In Business Logic Is Likely A Code Smell - Part 1 - Saturday, 6 March 2021

  [C#, Design]

February 2021 - 6 Posts

Week 08

• Handling Exceptions With Refit - Sunday, 28 February 2021

  [C#]

Week 06

• Consuming REST JSON APIs From Excel - Thursday, 11 February 2021

  [Excel, WebAPI, REST]

• Fix - error CS8805 Program using top-level statements must be an executable - Wednesday, 10 February 2021

  [C#, Fixes]

Week 05

• Using Regex MatchEvaluators In C# - Tuesday, 2 February 2021

  [Regex]

• Remember To Encode QueryString Data - Tuesday, 2 February 2021

  [Tips]

• Be Clearer With TimeSpans - Tuesday, 2 February 2021

  [Tips, Time]

January 2021 - 5 Posts

Week 03

• Entity Framework Core - Unique Constraits vs Unique Indexes - Monday, 18 January 2021

  [Entity Framework Core]

Week 02

• UI Fails - Oracle VirtualBox 6.1 - Saturday, 16 January 2021

  [Fails, UI Fails]

• Fix For Entity Framework Core Not Generating Indexes & Constraints - Thursday, 14 January 2021

  [Entity Framework Core, Fixes]

• Fix For Entity Framework Tools Error - Tuesday, 12 January 2021

  [Entity Framework Core, Fixes]

• Fix For pgAdmin Not Loading - Monday, 11 January 2021

  [PostgreSQL, Fixes]

2020 Posts : 41

December 2020 - 4 Posts

Week 53

• What Do You Actually Agree To When You Accept All Cookies - Wednesday, 30 December 2020

  [Business Of Software, People]

Week 52

• Improving HttpClient Requests - Monday, 21 December 2020

  [C#, HttpClient]

Week 51

• Beware of HttpClient Header Validations - Monday, 14 December 2020

  [C#, HttpClient]

Week 49

• Remote Debugging In VS Code - Thursday, 3 December 2020

  [C#, VS Code]

November 2020 - 6 Posts

Week 48

• HTTP Redirects Using HttpClient - Monday, 23 November 2020

  [C#, Under The Hood, HttpClient]

Week 47

• Refactoring With Records In C# - Saturday, 21 November 2020

  [C#, Records]

• Changing The Default Shell In IntelliJ To PowerShell - Tuesday, 17 November 2020

  [IntelliJ]

Week 46

• Conditional Logic In MSBuild - Thursday, 12 November 2020

  [.NET, MSBuild]

• Getting Now Playing Information From WQXR In .NET - Monday, 9 November 2020

  [.NET, C#, API, HttpClient]

Week 45

• Posting Messages To Microsoft Teams With Code - Wednesday, 4 November 2020

  [C#, .NET, Microsoft Teams]

October 2020 - 2 Posts

Week 44

• Disable SSL Certificate Validation In .NET - Saturday, 31 October 2020

  [C#]

• Querying & Extracing Data From YouTrack - Friday, 30 October 2020

  [C#, YouTrack]

September 2020 - 1 Posts

Week 36

• Chrome UI Surprises - Friday, 4 September 2020

  [UI, UX]

July 2020 - 1 Posts

Week 27

• Joining Strings - Part 4 : String.Format - Wednesday, 1 July 2020

  [.NET, Under The Hood]

June 2020 - 3 Posts

Week 26

• Joining Strings - Part 3 : StringBuilder - Monday, 22 June 2020

  [.NET, Under The Hood]

Week 25

• Joining Strings - Part 2 : String.Concat - Monday, 15 June 2020

  [.NET, Under The Hood]

Week 24

• Upgrading To WSL 2 - Wednesday, 10 June 2020

  [WSL]

May 2020 - 7 Posts

Week 22

• Joining Strings - Part 1 : The + Operator - Thursday, 28 May 2020

  [.NET, Under The Hood]

• Jekyll, Ruby & OpenSSH - Wednesday, 27 May 2020

  [Meta, Ruby, Windows, Linux]

• Goodbye Wordpress - Monday, 25 May 2020

  [Epiphanies]

Week 21

• Using IIS With ASP.NET Core 3.0 - Sunday, 24 May 2020

  [ASP.NET Core]

• Using Curl In PowerShell - Tuesday, 19 May 2020

  [PowerShell]

Week 20

• Touch In PowerShell - Saturday, 16 May 2020

  [PowerShell]

Week 19

• How Old Is Your Language? - Tuesday, 5 May 2020

  [Epiphanies, Languages]

April 2020 - 9 Posts

Week 18

• Decimals, Precision And Scale - Tuesday, 28 April 2020

  [SQL Server, .NET]

Week 17

• Extracting Bytes From A F# String - Saturday, 25 April 2020

  [F#, Tips]

Week 16

• Should all bugs be fixed? - Sunday, 19 April 2020

  [Epiphanies, Business Of Software]

• What Is A Software Company? - Sunday, 19 April 2020

  [Epiphanies, Software]

• Count vs Length vs Any - Checking Collection Emptiness - Tuesday, 14 April 2020

  [C#, Under The Hood]

Week 15

• Getting Your Internet IP Address - Saturday, 11 April 2020

  [PowerShell]

• Properties Under The Hood - Friday, 10 April 2020

  [Under The Hood, C#]

Week 14

• Arguments Handling Across Paradigms - Sunday, 5 April 2020

  [C#, F#, Lisp, Languages]

• FizzBuzz In F# - Wednesday, 1 April 2020

  [F#]

March 2020 - 8 Posts

Week 13

• Using Nuget In F# Scripts - Sunday, 29 March 2020

  [F#, Nuget]

• Pinning Nuget Package Versions - Saturday, 28 March 2020

  [Nuget]

• Controlling Creation Of .NET Core Projects - Wednesday, 25 March 2020

  [.NET]

Week 12

• Fun With Tuples In C# 7 & Above - Saturday, 21 March 2020

  [C#]

• Verifying File Hashes With PowerShell - Thursday, 19 March 2020

  [PowerShell]

Week 11

• AsReadOnly() May Not Be Doing What You Think! - Wednesday, 11 March 2020

  [C#]

• Beware Of Controller Name Typos In ASP.NET Core Controllers - Wednesday, 11 March 2020

  [ASP.NET Core]

• Copy SSH Key In Windows 10 - Monday, 9 March 2020

  [PowerShell]