A collection of 148 posts
Computer programming has its roots firmly grounded in mathematics, with the earliest computers used to calculate results that would take average human days to do by hand. One compelling problem in the field of computer science is discovering prime numbers....
Ah, strings, the cause of and solution to all our programming problems. As developers, we’re always balancing our codebase’s readability with the efficient use of string literals. Let’s see how we can work with SQL, a database query language, in...
I was working with the Spotify API and reading through the authorization documentation. Like most APIs, we need to securely access the service, authorized as the client application or on behalf of a user. We’ll need to deal with secret...
The other day I was playing a Castlevania on my RetroPie. In between the doses of pure childhood nostalgia, I found myself scrolling through the Raspberry Pi menus to find an open-source (OSS) attribution display menu. In front of me...
In previous non-core versions of Entity Framework (EF), it was possible to intercept calls to and from the database, but it’s wasn’t a feature many would classify under “first-class support”. Thankfully the community stepped in at the time to fill...
Presentation is an essential part of the language, let alone a software application. How we utilize script can make the difference between an enjoyable user experience or an incomprehensible mess. As developers, we likely spend more time formatting strings than...
I’ve been on a spiritual search for a cross-platform solution that allows developers to play and capture audio using .NET 5. It’s a journey filled with many highs and lows, mostly cursing at my screen and ruing the day I...
I recently saw a tweet from Chris Heilmann, Principal Program Manager for Browser Tools at Microsoft. In this tweet, he gave a quick tip about parsing HTML content using the built-in DOMParser JavaScript class rather than resorting to RegEx, and...
2020 has been a personal milestone year of blogging for me. I’m proud of what I’ve been able to accomplish and humbled by the many folks who read and promote my work. Thank you to all my champions! In a...
C# is quickly evolving, and it may be overwhelming to keep up with every new feature. C# 9 has been out for over a month now, and I thought it would be a good idea to consolidate my thoughts on...
