A collection of 23 posts
As an employee of JetBrains, I get to see and interact with many languages and technology stacks; frankly, it’s pretty rewarding. While I would still say my expertise is C#, these experiences inform my thoughts on C# and .NET in...
I’ve found Twitter is a great way to engage with the .NET community as a whole. Engaging in discussions, sharing ideas and inspiration, and even disagreeing can be a fun part of being part of the tech community. That said,...
I recently updated my Twitter tip deck to a new format for 2022. If you don’t already follow me on Twitter, be sure to @buhakmeh. I use GitHub Actions to go through the existing images and pick one according to...
The C# language has turned on the turbo boosters regarding language features, with folks either loving or hating the additions. It’s fair to have an opinion, but today I’d like to show you one of my favorite new features coming...
With each new release of C#, pattern matching improves for C# developers. While developers do not widely use pattern matching today, we’ll likely see its adoption grow as more teams and applications move from the Full Framework (.NET 4.8) to...
Microsoft Excel is the undisputed champion of the business world, powering every industry and informing decision-makers at the highest echelons of corporate structures. As a developer, it is not a matter of if we’ll have to deal with Excel spreadsheets,...
Coming from a web development background, I find that HTTP has suited most of my client/server communication needs reliably. Honestly, I generally don’t think too deeply about the protocol when working with ASP.NET. While HTTP is a robust protocol, transmitting...
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...
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...
