Archive for 2018

Prior year: 2017
Next year: 2019

January

1 Sharpen The Saw #24
6 Using Semantic Types
13 Using Consolidation
15 Sharpen The Saw #25
20 With Relocation
22 Sharpen The Saw #26
27 Using Premeditation
29 Sharpen The Saw #27

February

3 Prefer declarative method names
5 Sharpen The Saw #28
10 A Productivity Prompt for PowerShell
12 Sharpen The Saw #29
17 A Tale of Minification
19 Sharpen The Saw #30

March

3 Why is Equality important in .NET?
10 Types of Equality
17 Equality has Symmetry
24 Equality and GetHashCode
26 Sharpen The Saw #31
31 Implementing Entity Equality

April

2 Sharpen The Saw #32
7 Implementing Value Equality
14 Types behaving badly
16 Sharpen The Saw #33
21 How long is a simple fix?
23 Sharpen The Saw #34
28 A simple fix takes longer than you think
30 Sharpen The Saw #35

May

5 Even longer than that
12 Always fix it twice
19 Guaranteed Progression
21 Sharpen The Saw #36
26 Avoid hardcoded wait times

June

2 Converting projects to new csproj
4 Sharpen The Saw #37
9 Troubleshooting Assembly Loading with the Assembly Binding Log Viewer
16 Troubleshooting Assembly Load Issues with the MSBuild Structured Log Viewer
23 Solving my Assembly Load Issues
30 A question of struct performance

July

7 Why we need better validation
14 Default includes and excludes for csproj
21 Basic validation
28 Recovery of validation types

August

4 Aggregation of validation
11 Short-circuiting validation
18 Equality of validation
25 Validation recap

September

1 Bootstrapping a Psake build
8 Extending validation with warnings
15 Validation Metadata
22 Modelling Validation Metadata
29 Capturing Validation Metadata

October

6 Avoiding Magic Strings
13 A better approach to reflection
20 Introducing the Priority Queue
27 Designing the External API

November

3 Dequeuing Values
10 Enqueuing Values
17 Simple Queues
24 Two Dual Item Queues

December

1 Creating Branching Nodes
8 Queue Testing
15 Queue Enumeration
22 Smarter Queue Enumeration
29 Queue Equality