A collection of 345 posts
As a software developer, it’s always important to lower the barrier to entry for developers, hobbyists, and just about any contributor interested in your projects. On a previous iteration of my blog, I spoke about the F5 Manifesto, named after...
Nothing can be more frustrating than going into a situation “thinking” you know how a framework works, only to spend the next several hours pulling your hair out and stewing in a pot of unhealthy feelings. I like to consider...
You’ve spent the better part of a year building your site with hopes of positive community interaction. You deploy your application feeling you’ve accomplished something great. Days later, you realize that your community site has become flooded with horrible advertisements...
It’s almost 2020, and as we approach the future that many of our favorite science fiction movies could only imagine, we hope that technology can save us from dystopian dependency hell. I know I’m dramatic, but in this post, I’ll...
The title of this post is very tongue in cheek and a bit of a jab at click-bait posts, but I genuinely have a “trick” that will make starting up PowerShell faster and give you hours back throughout your development...
It’s 2019, and no one can argue that to be a successful developer, you need a couple of tools in your toolbox. For ASP.NET developers, they can build web applications and run Kestrel as a web server. For front end...
What a time to be alive, friends. As developers, we have a lot of options at our disposal when building a “modern” web application. Personally, when developing software, I like to consider all the tools available to me, but I...
I have been using macOS and Apple devices for close to a decade now. Since purchasing my original iMac, I have also owned a MacBook, MacBook Pro Retina, and now a MacBook Pro 13” with Touchbar. That doesn’t include the...
When working with any technology, I want to take advantage of everything that makes that technology unique. SQL Server is a powerful technology, but features can hide behind abstractions created by developers.
If you make your living as a software developer, you undoubtedly have had to deal with databases. In my case, I primarily work with Microsoft SQL Server and specifically the Windows Azure permutation. For simple applications, you may find Object...
