A collection of 17 posts
As .NET developers, we’ve lost sight of the forest and mainly focused on the trees. Our community has an infatuation with API design, object allocations, patterns, and theoretical ideas of purity—frankly, it is dull as hell. I’m not saying these...
Integrated development environments (IDEs) are constant, logical, and efficient executors of our technological whims. They do what we tell them when we tell them (most of the time). That’s great because, as developers working within an ecosystem, we can rely...
Working as a .NET Professional is a tumultuous rollercoaster ride of emotional highs and crushing lows. It’s likely the same for other communities, with different flavors of success and failures. I have over a decade of .NET development work, and...
On May 13, I’ll be giving a talk about Starting A Blog at JetBrains’ .NET Days Online. This post is a companion to the presentation but should serve as an excellent general-use guide for anyone starting their blogging adventure. Starting...
As developers, we have many power-user like applications installed on our machines. Each application is fighting for our love, attention, and shortcut supremacy. Sometimes it doesn’t matter what shortcuts the apps want to register, because most operating systems register universal...
Many developer’s workflows consist of jumping from terminal to IDE. From the command line, we can execute git commands, Jekyll builds, and npm installs. Some of us find the command line to be a more natural preference, while others prefer...
I am a big fan of static site generators (SSGs), as many have noticed from reading this blog and following me on Twitter. I’ve recently been dabbling with 11ty (pronounced eleventy) and very impressed so far. While this SSG is...
Nothing cheers up folks on a video conference more than a good tune, well maybe puppies and kittens, but tunes come in a close second.
My static site generator of choice remains the Jekyll, although there are many great alternatives. This very blog uses Jekyll as its static site generator.
I recently worked on a VueJs sample, “Sharing Information Between Vue Components With A Bus.” I recommend that folks read that post (after reading this post, of course).
