F# vs C#. Again
Loads of stuff has happened since my last post. I changed jobs. Doing a lot more .NET Core now. Better commute. Still working with really clever people. Anyway – that isn’t the point.…
n Habits of a successful developer
I thought I was going to write one of those listicles just to get going as I have posted nothing for half a year. Recent developments have made me take stock and figure out what certain people have taught me while workin…
Retention policy and crypto
I just deleted an old post because I re-read it and I was attempting my own crypto on config files instead of using DPAPI. I reserve the right to delete old posts if they turn out to be complete bollocks.…
More about configs while developing
In my previous post I discussed what you can and shall automate in terms of your development environment and I speculated in one place about what one ought to do with the web.config file in Visual Studio. I have made a s…
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…
Red mist
Sometimes you get so upset about something you need to blog about it, and ranting on Twitter, Facebook and Channel 9 comments just did not quite seem enough.…
Passwords – for wannabe techies
EDIT: As you will notice a lot of my links point to the works of security researcher Troy Hunt, and I should point out that I have no affiliation with him. I just happen to find articles that make sense and they happen t…
Passwords. For non-techies
Passwords are a – for the most part – necessary evil in our connected lives. There has to be a way to know that you are you in a transaction, and a piece of information that only you and your counterpart know about seems…
More LXSS
Regarding the previous post about running Linux processes on Windows, I have noticed a few common questions and the corresponding answers at various places on the Internet.…
Microsoft-bashing
After my previous posthttps://opinionmachine.wordpress.com/2016/03/26/desktop-os-for-developers/, Microsoft and Canonical reacted almost immediately – ahem – and on the //BUILD/ conference the Windows Subsystem for Linux…