Sharpen The Saw - June 2019

1 Jun 2019 sharpen-the-saw

In today’s post: Jon Skeet’s first steps with nullable types; Markdeep for publishing markdown online; Jerry Sienfield’s closed office door; Misinformation is a people problem; Reignite your motivation with a passion project; and, Who destroyed Three Mile Island?


First Light

8 Jun 2019 wordtutor-redux csharp

First light is the term used for the first time that an observation is made through a new telescope (or other astronomical instrument). Lets get our application up and running.


Revisiting ViewModelBase

15 Jun 2019 wordtutor-redux csharp

When I went to write the code for our next view model (VocabularyBrowserViewModel), I ran into some problems with our original ViewModelBase. Let’s visit those problems and look at how they can be resolved.


Old blog posts, restored

22 Jun 2019 admin

Digging through some old backups, I found some previously lost blog posts. These are posts that I “left behind” at some point when I migrated blogging platform, most likely when I abandoned my homebrew XML based system and adopted Drupal. Here’s the first batch of restorations.


Vocabulary Browser

29 Jun 2019 wordtutor-redux csharp

For our second screen, we’ll create a browser to show all of the words in a single vocabulary list. Let’s start with a small bit of design, so we know what we’re aiming to build.



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