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 vanity). 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 - including this one. How experienced is the writer? How well do they really know what they're talking about? Do they blog about their mistakes as well as their successes?
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 28 2020
wordtutor-redux
csharp
Based on the interfaces we defined last time, let’s integrate middleware functionality into our existing Redux store. This will lay the foundation we need for asynchronous speech generation.
Saturday, March 21 2020
smart-code
The Liskov Substitution Principle (or LSP) is one of the big five SOLID principles and one that is often poorly understood. Yet, ignorance of the LSP can lead to subtle, expensive, and sometimes embarrassing bugs.
Saturday, March 14 2020
wordtutor-redux
csharp
At this point in the development of the WordTutor, we need to properly incorporate speech generation into the application. We could hack and glue it into place on top of the existing architecture, or we can integrate it into the existing structure in a clean way.
Saturday, March 07 2020
sharpen-the-saw
In today’s post: Why Code Katas are important and how do do them well; the new Microsoft Edge is available now and coming to a PC near you; Yori is CMD reimagined; improving email one message at a time; why some people are chronically tardy; Intel patches CSME only for researches to find it’s still broken; the consequences of undocumented features; improving your CLI Prompt; and a talk on Unit Testing.
Saturday, February 29 2020
csharp
Recently a friend of mine noticed some code in a book that was, shall we say, considerably sub-optimal. It’s worth looking at the code to see how both the performance and readability of the code can be easily improved.
| 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 | 37 |
| csharp | 110 |
| powershell | 25 |
| professional | 80 |
| random | 37 |
| sharpen-the-saw | 46 |
| smart-code | 45 |
| testing | 24 |
| tips | 55 |
| ux | 33 |
| visual-studio | 19 |
| admin | 12 |
| alternative-definitions | 1 |
| architecture | 3 |
| code-gardening | 1 |
| command-line-processor | 2 |
| debugging | 3 |
| deployment | 6 |
| document-factory | 2 |
| dotnet | 11 |
| good-samaritan | 14 |
| 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 | 10 |
| vocabulary | 1 |
| vsgraph | 4 |
| wordtutor | 6 |
| wpf | 13 |
| xml | 1 |
| March 2020 | 4 |
| February 2020 | 4 |
| January 2020 | 4 |
| December 2019 | 4 |
| November 2019 | 5 |
| October 2019 | 4 |
| September 2019 | 4 |
| August 2019 | 5 |
| July 2019 | 4 |
| June 2019 | 5 |
| May 2019 | 4 |
| April 2019 | 4 |
| March 2019 | 5 |
| February 2019 | 4 |
| January 2019 | 4 |
| December 2018 | 5 |
| November 2018 | 4 |
| October 2018 | 4 |
| September 2018 | 5 |
| August 2018 | 4 |
| July 2018 | 4 |
| June 2018 | 6 |
| May 2018 | 5 |
| April 2018 | 8 |
| March 2018 | 6 |
| February 2018 | 6 |
| January 2018 | 8 |
| December 2017 | 7 |
| November 2017 | 8 |
| October 2017 | 9 |
| September 2017 | 7 |
| August 2017 | 4 |
| July 2017 | 5 |
| June 2017 | 3 |
| May 2017 | 1 |
| April 2017 | 4 |
| March 2017 | 3 |
| February 2017 | 6 |
| January 2017 | 4 |
| 2016 | 40 |
| 2015 | 30 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2013 | 19 |
| 2012 | 25 |
| 2011 | 47 |
| 2010 | 56 |
| 2009 | 78 |
| 2008 | 89 |
| 2007 | 2 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2004 | 18 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| Speech API | 15 Feb 2020 |
| Dumb Transfer Objects | 08 Feb 2020 |
| Sharpen The Saw - February 2020 | 01 Feb 2020 |
| Logging Implementation | 25 Jan 2020 |
| Impossible Numbers | 18 Jan 2020 |
| Logging Demonstrated | 11 Jan 2020 |
| Sharpen The Saw - January 2020 | 04 Jan 2020 |
| Logging | 28 Dec 2019 |
| Empathy for future developers | 21 Dec 2019 |
| Wither convention testing | 14 Dec 2019 |
| Sharpen The Saw - December 2019 | 07 Dec 2019 |
| Convention testing for immutable types | 30 Nov 2019 |
| What do you do when you find a bug? | 24 Nov 2019 |
| Modifying Words, Part the Second | 16 Nov 2019 |
| Modifying Words, Part the First | 09 Nov 2019 |
| Sharpen The Saw - November 2019 | 02 Nov 2019 |
| Hashcodes | 26 Oct 2019 |
| Code Gardening | 19 Oct 2019 |
| Nullable types redux | 12 Oct 2019 |
| Sharpen The Saw - October 2019 | 05 Oct 2019 |
| C# 8 and .NET Core 3.0 | 28 Sep 2019 |
| Commands and CommandBinding | 21 Sep 2019 |
| Debugging word selection | 14 Sep 2019 |
| Sharpen The Saw - September 2019 | 07 Sep 2019 |
| ViewModel Subscriptions | 31 Aug 2019 |
| Redux Subscriptions | 25 Aug 2019 |
| Dependency Injection: Views | 17 Aug 2019 |
| Dependency Injection: ViewModels | 10 Aug 2019 |
| Sharpen The Saw - August 2019 | 04 Aug 2019 |
| Dependency Injection: Core | 27 Jul 2019 |