Sharpen The Saw - February 2020
Saturday, February 01 2020
sharpen-the-saw
In today’s post: how to write better git commit messages; a cool debugger trick for Visual Studio; a new approach for producer/consumer programming in .NET Core 3.0; how to focus in on a part of a data structure; an alternative to a regular to-do list; how to apologize; protecting users against poor password choices; the NSA does the right thing; the day when someone discovered they had too many interfaces; a Java programmer discovers GoLang; and a Ted Talk on why privacy matters.
Dumb Transfer Objects
Saturday, February 08 2020
alternative-definitions
An anti-pattern variant of Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) where the objects are forcefully deprived of all possible functionality, even for matters that are directly relevant such as construction, serialization, and (first stage) validation.
Speech API
Saturday, February 15 2020
wordtutor-redux
csharp
For the WordTutor application to work, we need to be able to read words (and letters) out loud to our student. To power the speech synthesis, we’re going to integrate Azure Cognitive Services into the application.
Always review code you copy
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.
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