It's one of the paradoxes of blogging that most every blogger (including myself) is sharing what they know right now (let's quietly ignore those who blog purely for traffic and visibility). Since everyone is learning, this can result in poor or misleading information being shared just as much as good information. Keep this in mind as you read any blog - how experienced is the writer and how well do they really know what they're talking about.
I'm just as flawed as other bloggers, so you should feel encouraged to check my ideas for yourself. Keep the date in mind as well - in our fast moving field, even good ideas can become obsolete.
Saturday, March 16 2019
wordtutor-redux
csharp
After creating VocabularyWord last time, our next step is to create VocabularySet, a container for many words.
Saturday, March 09 2019
wordtutor-redux
csharp
To begin our little project, we need to create our initial project structure. Once that’s in place, we can create the first class from our application model - VocabularyWord.
Saturday, March 02 2019
wordtutor-redux
csharp
Let’s try an experiment - taking many of the things I’ve been blogging about over the past few years and applying them to the design and build of an actual application, with the source code published step by step.
Saturday, February 23 2019
priority-queues
csharp
While chatting with a friend about this series, he made a suggestion about a significantly more effective way to implement the ToImmutablePriorityQueue extension method.
Saturday, February 16 2019
csharp
When unit testing, it is common to create a fake implementation of an interface so that you can test another component in isolation. But how do you handle the case where each test needs a fake that does something different?
| Code Gardening | 17 |
| Equality in .NET | 7 |
| Immutability Matters | 16 |
| Immutable Priority Queues | 15 |
| Psake | 17 |
| Technical Debt | 6 |
| Killing the Utility Class | 5 |
| Instance validation in C# | 12 |
| Redeveloping WordTutor | 3 |
| csharp | 75 |
| powershell | 25 |
| professional | 74 |
| random | 35 |
| sharpen-the-saw | 36 |
| smart-code | 44 |
| testing | 17 |
| tips | 55 |
| ux | 33 |
| visual-studio | 19 |
| admin | 11 |
| architecture | 3 |
| code-gardening | 1 |
| command-line-processor | 2 |
| debugging | 3 |
| deployment | 6 |
| document-factory | 2 |
| dotnet | 11 |
| good-samaritan | 12 |
| group-inspector | 2 |
| immutable-types | 1 |
| lies | 1 |
| mandelbrot | 9 |
| markdown-xaml | 2 |
| nantgraph | 6 |
| presentations | 1 |
| psake | 1 |
| stylecopcmd | 8 |
| technical-debt | 1 |
| technology | 8 |
| tools | 9 |
| vocabulary | 1 |
| vsgraph | 4 |
| wordtutor | 6 |
| wpf | 13 |
| xml | 1 |
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| December 2018 | 5 |
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| December 2017 | 7 |
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| February 2017 | 6 |
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| December 2016 | 4 |
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| 2004 | 13 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| Capturing Transient Errors | 09 Feb 2019 |
| Console logging and the passage of time | 02 Feb 2019 |
| PowerShell provides a helping hand | 26 Jan 2019 |
| Extension Methods | 19 Jan 2019 |
| Generating Hash Codes | 12 Jan 2019 |
| The Problem with Equality | 05 Jan 2019 |
| Queue Equality | 29 Dec 2018 |
| Smarter Queue Enumeration | 22 Dec 2018 |
| Queue Enumeration | 15 Dec 2018 |
| Queue Testing | 08 Dec 2018 |
| Creating Branching Nodes | 01 Dec 2018 |
| Two Dual Item Queues | 24 Nov 2018 |
| Simple Queues | 17 Nov 2018 |
| Enqueuing Values | 10 Nov 2018 |
| Dequeuing Values | 03 Nov 2018 |
| Designing the External API | 27 Oct 2018 |
| Introducing the Priority Queue | 20 Oct 2018 |
| A better approach to reflection | 13 Oct 2018 |
| Avoiding Magic Strings | 06 Oct 2018 |
| Capturing Validation Metadata | 29 Sep 2018 |
| Modelling Validation Metadata | 22 Sep 2018 |
| Validation Metadata | 15 Sep 2018 |
| Extending validation with warnings | 08 Sep 2018 |
| Bootstrapping a Psake build | 01 Sep 2018 |
| Validation recap | 25 Aug 2018 |
| Equality of validation | 18 Aug 2018 |
| Short-circuiting validation | 11 Aug 2018 |
| Aggregation of validation | 04 Aug 2018 |
| Recovery of validation types | 28 Jul 2018 |
| Basic validation | 21 Jul 2018 |