Are the kids alright?
I know in the labour market of today, suggesting someone pick up programming from scratch is akin to suggesting someone dedicate their life to being a cooper. Sure, in very specific places, that is a very sought after sk…
C#
.NET C# CI/CD in Docker
When building software in the modern workplace, you want to automatically test and statically analyse your code before pushing code to production. This means that rather than tens of test environments and an army of manu…
The Power of Sample Code
In the culture wars between “Object Oriented Programming” and Functional Programming, you will find proponents of OOP that argue that we are doing fine – why should we change? and proponents of FP that lists a litany of …
IdS4 on .NET Core 3.1
Sometimes I write literary content with substance and longstanding impact, and sometimes I just write stuff down that I might need to remember in the future.…
…and the number of the counting shall be 3
.NET Core 3.0 is here, allegedly the penultimate stop on the roadmap before the Singularity, when they finally bin .NET Framework and unify on top of Windows XP… er… .NET 5. The news are packed with stuff about WinForms,…
Contrarian style guide for C#
I have decided to try and formulate what I want C code to look like. Over the years I have accumulated a whole host of opinions that may or may not be complimentary or maybe contradict each other. The purpose of this pos…
Sprint 0 for old school .NET devs
When you start work on a code base, either from scratch or as you approach it as a new dev, there are a few things you should ensure are in place before you get going. Like most other things, these are easier and more na…
Desktop OS for developers
The results of the latest StackOverflow Developer Surveyhttp://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016 just came out, showing – among other interesting things – that Windows is dying as a developer OS. Not one t…
Salvation through a bad resource
Me and a colleague have been struggling for some time deploying an IIS website correctly using chef. As you may be aware, chef is used to describe the desired state of the configuration of a system through the use of res…
Getting back into WPF
These last couple of weeks I have been working with a Windows desktop app based on WPF. I hadn’t been involved with that in quite some time so there was some trepidation before I got stuck in.…
Tip: Clearing QueryString when using RadControls and ASP.NET WebForms
I had to google myself silly and the page I ended up finding was so hard to find I couldn’t actually find it again to link to it properly. The below code is not my idea, so if you feel wronged, submit your link and I sha…
Castle Windsor + NHibernate + MVC revisited
I have noticed some people come to this blog for reference on using Castle Windsor together with NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC, so I have to mention a few things that have happened since I last posted about it several years…