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Total Posts : 359

2025 Posts : 150

May 2025 - 30 Posts

📅 Week 22

Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 23 - Refactoring Amazon Storage Engine For Initialization - Friday, 30 May 2025
[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Amazon]
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 22 - Refactoring Azure Storage Engine For Initialization - Thursday, 29 May 2025
[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Azure]
Calling Async Methods In Constructors In C# - Wednesday, 28 May 2025
[C#, .NET]
Renaming A SQL Server Database - Tuesday, 27 May 2025
[SQL Server]
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 21 - Testing Amazon S3 Storage Locally - Monday, 26 May 2025
[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Amazon]

📅 Week 21

Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 20 - Amazon S3 Storage - Sunday, 25 May 2025
[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Amazon]
Using Tuples in Deconstructors - Saturday, 24 May 2025
[C#, .NET]
Not All .NET Exceptions Can Be Caught - The Case Of StackOverflow - Friday, 23 May 2025
[C#, .NET]
About Tuples & Value Tuples - Thursday, 22 May 2025
[C#, .NET]
Determining the Operating System SQL Server Is Running On Remotely - Wednesday, 21 May 2025
[SQL Server, .NET, Dapper]
SQL Server Delete Backup & Restore Database Information - Tuesday, 20 May 2025
[SQL Server]
Fare thee well, StackOverflow - Monday, 19 May 2025
[.NET]

📅 Week 20

LINQ Single and First Are Not Interchangeable - Sunday, 18 May 2025
[.NET, C#]
Understanding & Managing Nuget Cache Folders - Saturday, 17 May 2025
[.NET, Nuget]
Order of Settings Precedence for .NET Applications - Friday, 16 May 2025
[C#, .NET, Configuration]
Format Strings for Display of Zeros - Thursday, 15 May 2025
[C#, .NET]
Overriding appsettings.json via Environment Variables - Wednesday, 14 May 2025
[C#, .NET, Configuration]
Overriding appsettings.json Via Command Line - Tuesday, 13 May 2025
[C#, .NET, Configuration]
Viewing the Complete URL in Chrome - Monday, 12 May 2025
[UI, UX]

📅 Week 19

Setting the Staging & Production Environments During Development - Sunday, 11 May 2025
[C#, .NET, Configuration]
Flexible Leveraging of appsettings.json in .NET Applications - Saturday, 10 May 2025
[C#, .NET, Configuration]
Verifying File Hashes With Zsh or Bash - Friday, 9 May 2025
[Shell, Linux, OSX]
Computing SHA256 & Other Checksums In C# & .NET - Thursday, 8 May 2025
[C#, .NET, Security]
Dapper Part 16 - Consideration When Passing Parameters - Wednesday, 7 May 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]
Tip - Command Text & Stored Procedure Specification In Dapper - Tuesday, 6 May 2025
[.NET, C#, Dapper, StarLibrary]
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 19 - Testing Azure Blob Storage Locally - Monday, 5 May 2025
[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Azure]

📅 Week 18

Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 18 - Azure Blob Storage - Sunday, 4 May 2025
[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Azure]
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 17 - Large File Consideration On PostgreSQL - Saturday, 3 May 2025
[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, PostgreSQL]
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 16 - Large File Consideration - Friday, 2 May 2025
[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, SQL Server, PostgreSQL]
Designing, Building & Packaging A Scalable, Testable .NET Open Source Component - Part 15 - Test Organization - Thursday, 1 May 2025
[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, xUnit]

April 2025 - 30 Posts

March 2025 - 31 Posts

📅 Week 14

Using State Machines In .NET - Part 7 - Conditional State Transitions - Monday, 31 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

📅 Week 13

Using State Machines In .NET - Part 6 - Firing Events On State Change - Sunday, 30 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]
Tip - Adding Projects To Solutions Via Command Line - Saturday, 29 March 2025
[Tips, C#, .NET]
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 5 - Using Complex & Nested States - Friday, 28 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 4 - Using Multiple Triggers - Thursday, 27 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 3 - Setting Initial State - Wednesday, 26 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 2 - Basic Usage - Tuesday, 25 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]
Using State Machines In .NET - Part 1 - Introduction - Monday, 24 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

📅 Week 12

Collection Expressions & Dictionaries - Sunday, 23 March 2025
[C#, .NET]
Threading Issue When Populating MemoryCache - Saturday, 22 March 2025
[C#, MemoryCache, StarLibrary, LazyCache]
Improving ASP.NET Content Negotiation XML Serialization Performance Using A RecyclableMemoryStream - Friday, 21 March 2025
[ASP.NET, C#, XML, JSON, StarLibrary, Carter]
SLNX - New .NET Solution File Format - Thursday, 20 March 2025
[.NET, Visual Studio]
Organizing .NET Projects With Solutions - Wednesday, 19 March 2025
[.NET, Visual Studio]
Conditionally Output CSV Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Tuesday, 18 March 2025
[ASP.NET, C#, XML, JSON, CSV, StarLibrary, Carter, CSVHelper]
Conditionally Output XML Or JSON Using ASP.NET Minimal API - Monday, 17 March 2025
[ASP.NET, C#, XML, JSON, StarLibrary, Carter]

📅 Week 11

Changing The Port Of An ASP.NET Web Application Or API - Sunday, 16 March 2025
[ASP.NET, C#, .NET]
Controlling Publishing Of Satellite Resource Assemblies - Saturday, 15 March 2025
[C#, .NET]
Tip - Configuring Insomnia Timeout - Friday, 14 March 2025
[Insomnia]
Beware - Order Of DataTable Column Definitions Matters For User Defined Table Type Mapping - Thursday, 13 March 2025
[SQL Server, C#, NET]
Dapper Part 15 - Using the IN Clause - Wednesday, 12 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]
Dapper Part 14 - Multithreading - Tuesday, 11 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]
Dapper Part 13 - Using Transactions - Monday, 10 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

📅 Week 10

Tip - Quickly Upgrade Docker Containers - Sunday, 9 March 2025
[Docker]
Dapper Part 12 - Alternative Bulk Insert Technique - Saturday, 8 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]
Dapper Part 11 - Using Inheritance - Friday, 7 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]
Dapper Part 10 - Handling Cancellations - Thursday, 6 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]
Dapper Part 9 - Using Dynamic Types - Wednesday, 5 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]
Dapper Part 8 - Controlling Database Timeouts - Tuesday, 4 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]
Dapper Part 7 - Adding DateOnly & TimeOnly Support - Monday, 3 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

📅 Week 09

Dapper Part 6 - Returning Multiple Sets Of Results - Sunday, 2 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]
Dapper Part 5 - Passing Data In Bulk To The Database - Saturday, 1 March 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

February 2025 - 28 Posts

📅 Week 09

Dapper Part 4 - Passing Data To And From The Database - Friday, 28 February 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]
Dapper Part 3 - Executing Queries - Thursday, 27 February 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]
Dapper Part 2 - Querying The Database - Wednesday, 26 February 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]
Simpler .NET Data Access With Dapper - Part 1 - Tuesday, 25 February 2025
[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]
How SQL Injection Works - Part 2 - Monday, 24 February 2025
[Security, .NET, SQL]

📅 Week 08

How SQL Injection Works - Part 1 - Sunday, 23 February 2025
[Security, .NET, SQL]
Using Case Insensitive Dictionary Keys In C# & .NET - Saturday, 22 February 2025
[C#, .NET]
Configuring JSON Responses With ASP.NET - Friday, 21 February 2025
[C#, .NET, ASP.NET]
Enums & Enum Flags In C# & .NET For Dummies - Thursday, 20 February 2025
[C#, .NET]
Some Useful Integer Helper Methods In .NET - Wednesday, 19 February 2025
[C#, .NET]
Getting A List Of Available Docker Image Tags From The Command Line - Tuesday, 18 February 2025
[Docker]
Creating Reproducible Builds With global.json - Monday, 17 February 2025
[.NET]

📅 Week 07

View Request & Response Headers For HTTP Requests In C# & .NET - Sunday, 16 February 2025
[C#, NET]
Using Frozen Collections For Immutability - Saturday, 15 February 2025
[C#, .NET]
Getting The Executing .NET Version - Friday, 14 February 2025
[C#, .NET]
Determining The Largest (& Smallest) Values For Numeric Types In .NET - Thursday, 13 February 2025
[C#, NET]
Using Base64 To Encode Binary Data - Wednesday, 12 February 2025
[C#, .NET]
Is That String Null, Empty, Or WhiteSpace? - Tuesday, 11 February 2025
[C#, .NET]
Executing Actions In Parallel With Parallel.Invoke - Monday, 10 February 2025
[C#, .NET]

📅 Week 06

Immutable Types In C# & .NET - Sunday, 9 February 2025
[C#, .NET]
Pipelining Task Results With Task.WhenEach - Saturday, 8 February 2025
[C#, .NET]
Parallelizing Work With C# & .NET - Friday, 7 February 2025
[C#, .NET, Performance]
Using LINQ OfType To Filter Collections By Type - Thursday, 6 February 2025
[C#, NET]
Using Deconstructors In C# - Wednesday, 5 February 2025
[C#, .NET]
Using LINQ Repeat To Generate Copies Of Objects - Tuesday, 4 February 2025
[C#, .NET, LINQ]
Using LINQ Concat To Merge Collections - Monday, 3 February 2025
[C#, .NET, LINQ]

📅 Week 05

Using LINQ UnionBy To Merge Collections - Sunday, 2 February 2025
[C#, .NET, LINQ]
Scheduling Tasks With The PeriodicTimer - Saturday, 1 February 2025
[C#, .NET]

January 2025 - 31 Posts

📅 Week 05

Beware - Mapping Classes With ReadOnly Properties Using Dapper With VB.NET, C# & F# - Friday, 31 January 2025
[C#, Dapper, VB.NET, F#]
Lazy Initialization With System.Lazy - Thursday, 30 January 2025
[C#, .NET]
Using Indexes With LINQ - Wednesday, 29 January 2025
[C#, LINQ, .NET]
Set Operations With LINQ - Tuesday, 28 January 2025
[C#, .NET, LINQ]
Using LINQ Zip To Combine Collections - Monday, 27 January 2025
[C#, .NET, LINQ]

📅 Week 04

Using LINQ Aggregate & AggregateBy To Perform Aggregate Computations - Sunday, 26 January 2025
[C#, .NET, LINQ]
Using LINQ SelectMany To Flatten Collections - Saturday, 25 January 2025
[C#, .NET, LINQ]
Using LINQ GroupJoin To Perform Grouped Joins - Friday, 24 January 2025
[C#, .NET, LINQ]
Fix - Visual Studio Code Auto-Creates A Solution File - Thursday, 23 January 2025
[VS Code, Fixes]
FluentAssertions - A Pragmatic Roadmap To What Next - Wednesday, 22 January 2025
[Testing, FluentAssertions]
Performance Issues With Guid Primary Keys - Tuesday, 21 January 2025
[C#, Database]
Using A LINQ Pipeline To Solve Problems - Monday, 20 January 2025
[C#, .NET, LINQ]

📅 Week 03

Using Groups To Apply Common Functionality To WebAPI EndPoints - Sunday, 19 January 2025
[C#, .NET, Security, ASP.NET]
Evaluating Multiple Test Assertions At Once With FluentAssertions - Saturday, 18 January 2025
[Testing, FluentAssertions]
Primary Constructors - And Their Pitfalls - Friday, 17 January 2025
[C#, .NET]
There Be Dragons - FluentAssertions 8 New Licensing - Thursday, 16 January 2025
[Testing, FluentAssertions]
Locale & Culture Support For Kenyan Languages In .NET - Wednesday, 15 January 2025
[C#, .NET, Globalization]
Validating .NET Settings Part 4 - Validating Using IValidateOptions - Tuesday, 14 January 2025
[C#, Validation]
Validating .NET Settings Part 3 - Validating Using Data Annotations - Monday, 13 January 2025
[C#, Validation]

📅 Week 02

Validating .NET Settings Part 2 - Validating Using FluentValidation - Sunday, 12 January 2025
[C#, Validation]
Validating .NET Settings Part 1 - Manual Validation - Saturday, 11 January 2025
[C#, Validation]
Unit Testing Fractional Values In C# & .NET - Friday, 10 January 2025
[C#, .NET, Testing]
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 10 - Conclusion - Thursday, 9 January 2025
[C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 9 - Life Cycles - Wednesday, 8 January 2025
[C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 8 - Types Of Dependency Injection - Tuesday, 7 January 2025
[C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 7 - Integration Testing - Monday, 6 January 2025
[C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]

📅 Week 01

Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 6 - Implementation Testing - Sunday, 5 January 2025
[C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 5 - Making All Implementations Available - Saturday, 4 January 2025
[C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 4 - Making Implementations Hot-Pluggable - Friday, 3 January 2025
[C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 3 - Making Implementations Pluggable - Thursday, 2 January 2025
[C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]
Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 2 - Making Implementations Swappable - Wednesday, 1 January 2025
[C#, .NET, Architecture, Domain Design]

2024 Posts : 47

December 2024 - 31 Posts

📅 Week 01

Dependency Injection In C# & .NET Part 1 - Introduction & Basic Implementation - Tuesday, 31 December 2024
[C#, .NET, Architecture]
Downloading Files With ASP.NET Core Minimal API - Monday, 30 December 2024
[ASP.NET, C#]

📅 Week 52

Uploading Files With ASP.NET Core Minimal API - Sunday, 29 December 2024
[ASP.NET, C#]
Correctly Getting The Week Number In C# - Saturday, 28 December 2024
[C#, Dates & Times, StarLibrary]
Using The Lock In C# & .NET 9 - Friday, 27 December 2024
[C#, .NET 9, Threading]
Beware - Handling Of 2 Digit Years In SQL Server T-SQL - Thursday, 26 December 2024
[SQL Server, T-SQL]
Correctly Processing CSV Files In C# & .NET - Wednesday, 25 December 2024
[C#, .NET, StarLibrary]
Check If You Have The Latest .NET SDK - Tuesday, 24 December 2024
[C#, .NET]
Advanced Customization Of The Display Of Dates In C# - Monday, 23 December 2024
[C#, Dates & Times]

📅 Week 51

Caching In .NET Applications & The Hybrid Cache - Sunday, 22 December 2024
[C#, Caching]
Using The u8 String Literal - Saturday, 21 December 2024
[C#]
How To Work With Different Numbering Systems In C# - Friday, 20 December 2024
[C#]
Customizing Object Equality In C# & .NET - Thursday, 19 December 2024
[C#, .NET, Domain Design]
Using AggregateBy In C# & .NET 9 - Wednesday, 18 December 2024
[C#, .NET 9, LINQ]
Checking Collections Have The Same Elements - Tuesday, 17 December 2024
[C#]
Handing JSON Deserialization In The Wild - Monday, 16 December 2024
[C#, JSON]

📅 Week 50

Simplified Hashing In .NET 9 - Sunday, 15 December 2024
[Security, .NET 9]
Using LINQ CountBy In .NET 9 - Saturday, 14 December 2024
[C#, .NET 9, LINQ]
Determining The Number Of Days In A Year In C# - Friday, 13 December 2024
[C#]
Configuring Docker Compose RabbitMQ Settings For A Docker Container - Thursday, 12 December 2024
[Docker, RabbitMQ]
Loading & Using Application Settings In .NET - Wednesday, 11 December 2024
[C#, .NET, Configuration]
LinqPad For OSX Beta Is Out - Tuesday, 10 December 2024
[.NET, OSX, LinqPad]
Writing Minimal APIs For HEAD Requests - Monday, 9 December 2024
[C#, ASP.NET, Minimal API]

📅 Week 49

Sending & Receiving JSON With A HttpClient In C# - Sunday, 8 December 2024
[C#, HttpClient]
Sending a HTTP HEAD Request With A HttpClient In C# - Saturday, 7 December 2024
[C#, HttpClient]
Required Properties vs Constructors In Domain Objects - Friday, 6 December 2024
[C#, Design, Art Of Software]
Ordered Dictionary Improvements In .NET 9 - Thursday, 5 December 2024
[C#, .NET 9]
Removing Items From A Priority Queue - Wednesday, 4 December 2024
[C#, .NET 9]
Using LINQ Index - Tuesday, 3 December 2024
[C#, LINQ, .NET 9]
Random Sampling In F# - Monday, 2 December 2024
[F#]

📅 Week 48

Choosing From A Collection In F# - Sunday, 1 December 2024
[F#]

November 2024 - 9 Posts

📅 Week 48

How Old Is Your Programming Language (2024 Edition) - Saturday, 30 November 2024
[Epiphanies, Languages]
Improved Collection Shuffling In F# - Friday, 29 November 2024
[F#]
Truncating Numbers In C# - Thursday, 28 November 2024
[C#, .NET]
Getting Your IDE To Recognize Domain Specific Languages - Wednesday, 27 November 2024
[Rider, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code]
Formatting Json On The Terminal / Command Line - Tuesday, 26 November 2024
[JSON]
Storing Common Application Settings For A .NET Application In MacOS OSX - Monday, 25 November 2024
[C#, .NET, OSX]

📅 Week 47

Pretty Printing Unformatted Json In C# - Sunday, 24 November 2024
[C#, .NET]
Determining The Operating System C# .NET Program Is Running Under - Saturday, 23 November 2024
[C#, .NET]
Running Multiple .NET Versions In MacOS OSX - Friday, 22 November 2024
[.NET, C#]

June 2024 - 1 Posts

📅 Week 23

A Rose By Any Other Name - Short Circuiting - Wednesday, 5 June 2024
[C#, VB.NET]

April 2024 - 2 Posts

📅 Week 14

Using Inheritance With FluentValidation - Saturday, 6 April 2024
[C#, .NET, FluentValidation]
Dogs Will Always Bark - Part I - You Make I Check - Friday, 5 April 2024
[The Business Of Software, Human Nature]

March 2024 - 3 Posts

📅 Week 11

Correctly Setting HttpClient BaseAddress - Sunday, 17 March 2024
[.NET, C#, HttpClient]
How Long Is A String - Sunday, 17 March 2024
[Business Of Software]
Verifying File Hashes With PowerShell (Update) - Wednesday, 13 March 2024
[PowerShell, Tips]

February 2024 - 1 Posts

📅 Week 08

Tip - Don't Log Exceptions With Log.Information - Friday, 23 February 2024
[C#, .NET, Tips]

2023 Posts : 11

November 2023 - 1 Posts

📅 Week 44

Did You Know - An Email Body Is Optional - Friday, 3 November 2023
[Did You Know]

August 2023 - 2 Posts

📅 Week 33

Defining Relationships With Enum Attributes For Enum Values In C# - Friday, 18 August 2023
[C#]

📅 Week 31

Tip - Using JsonSerializationOptions With Refit - Wednesday, 2 August 2023
[C#, .NET, Refit]

July 2023 - 3 Posts

📅 Week 29

Fix - HttpClient Changes Case Of x-request-id Header - Friday, 21 July 2023
[C#, .NET, HttpClient]
Projecting Named Tuples In Entity Framework Core - Monday, 17 July 2023
[Entity Framework Core, C#, .NET]

📅 Week 27

Tip - Fluent Validation With Null Values - Thursday, 6 July 2023
[.NET, Validation, Libraries, Tips]

May 2023 - 3 Posts

📅 Week 21

Accessing SQL Server Configuration Manager - Monday, 22 May 2023
[SQL Server]

📅 Week 20

Why Doesn't Windows Have A Built In Dictionary? - Tuesday, 16 May 2023
[Business Of Software]

📅 Week 18

Writing Maintainable, Testable Code That Depends On The Current Time - Wednesday, 3 May 2023
[C#, .NET, Design, Maintainability]

March 2023 - 1 Posts

📅 Week 13

How To Use C# List Pattern Matching Practically - Tuesday, 28 March 2023
[C#, .NET]

February 2023 - 1 Posts

📅 Week 07

Building Directory Paths In C# - Tuesday, 14 February 2023
[C#]

2022 Posts : 37

December 2022 - 1 Posts

📅 Week 50

Writing A Custom DateOnly JSON Deserializer - Tuesday, 13 December 2022
[C#]

November 2022 - 5 Posts

📅 Week 48

Stop Press - Running Linux GUI Applications In Windows - Monday, 28 November 2022
[Windows, Linux, WSL]

📅 Week 47

How To Index A NVarchar(MAX) Column In SQL Server - Saturday, 26 November 2022
[SQL Server]
Handling Null And Empty Strings With System.Text.Json - Part 2 - Monday, 21 November 2022
[C#, System.Text.Json]

📅 Week 46

Enabling TCP/IP For SQL Server - Saturday, 19 November 2022
[SQL Server]

📅 Week 45

Required Keyword In C# 11 & .NET 7 - Saturday, 12 November 2022
[C#, .NET]

October 2022 - 10 Posts

📅 Week 43

Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Constructing Dates - Monday, 24 October 2022
[SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, Tips]

📅 Week 42

Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Reorder Lines - Thursday, 20 October 2022
[SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, Tips]
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Duplicate Tab - Monday, 17 October 2022
[SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, Tips]
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Server Colouring - Monday, 17 October 2022
[SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, Tips, RedGate]
Tip - SQL Server Management Studio - Reorder Results - Monday, 17 October 2022
[SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, Tips]

📅 Week 41

Microsecond Precision In .NET - Saturday, 15 October 2022
[C#, .NET 7]
How To Order Classes And Records In C# - Friday, 14 October 2022
[C#, .NET 7, LINQ]
Tip - Simpler LINQ Ordering In .NET 7 - Thursday, 13 October 2022
[Tips, C#, LINQ, .NET 7]

📅 Week 40

Tip - Using LINQ To Filter A List Of Strings Containing Words In Another List - Tuesday, 4 October 2022
[C#, LINQ, Tips]

📅 Week 39

Tip - Grouping Correctly In LINQ With VB.NET - Sunday, 2 October 2022
[VB.NET, LINQ, Tips]

August 2022 - 2 Posts

📅 Week 33

Building URLs In C# Without Concatenation Or Interpolation - Monday, 15 August 2022
[C#, .NET]

📅 Week 31

Using HttpClient To Post JSON In C# & .NET - Monday, 1 August 2022
[C#, .NET]

July 2022 - 1 Posts

📅 Week 29

Punched In The Face Or In The Stomach - Tuesday, 19 July 2022
[Business Of Software]

June 2022 - 1 Posts

📅 Week 25

Conmen, Charlatans And Software Developers - Monday, 20 June 2022
[Business Of Software]

May 2022 - 5 Posts

📅 Week 21

Beware - Mapping Inherited Immutable Classes Using Dapper - Wednesday, 25 May 2022
[C#, Dapper]
Linux Tools Packaged With Windows - Wednesday, 25 May 2022
[Windows]
Fix - Python - Warning- Ignoring Invalid Distribution - Wednesday, 25 May 2022
[Python, Fixes]

📅 Week 20

Fix - SSL Provider, error 0 - The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted - Monday, 16 May 2022
[C#, .NET, SQL Server, Fixes]

📅 Week 19

About curl And PowerShell - Tuesday, 10 May 2022
[C#, .NET]

April 2022 - 3 Posts

📅 Week 17

Adding Multiple Items To A HashSet In C# - Thursday, 28 April 2022
[C#]

📅 Week 16

What Amazon AWS Local Zones Mean For ICT In Kenya - Monday, 18 April 2022
[Business Of Software, Amazon, Azure, Google]

📅 Week 14

Tip - HttpUtility.UrlEncode vs WebUtility.UrlEncode - Thursday, 7 April 2022
[C#, .NET, Tips]

March 2022 - 6 Posts

📅 Week 13

Tip - Updating The Nuget Client - Thursday, 31 March 2022
[Tips, .NET]
Cleaner Code With Switch Expressions In C# - Tuesday, 29 March 2022
[C#, Algorithms]

📅 Week 12

Fetching Table Data From Web Pages Using Excel - Monday, 21 March 2022
[Excel, PowerUser, Office]

📅 Week 10

If Your Grandmother Had Wheels - She Wouldn't Be A Bicycle - Its ALWAYS Harder Than You Think - Saturday, 12 March 2022
[Business Of Software]
Using 'TRUE' and 'FALSE' For Bit Types In SQL Server - Saturday, 12 March 2022
[SQL, SQL Server]
Maintainability Of Code - Friday, 11 March 2022
[C#, Design]

February 2022 - 1 Posts

📅 Week 06

Standing In A Garage Doesn't Make You A Car - Why You Cant Just "Hire Developers" - Thursday, 10 February 2022
[Business Of Software]

January 2022 - 2 Posts

📅 Week 03

Coding Is Easy - Any Monkey Can Do It. Software, However Is Very Hard - Monday, 17 January 2022
[Business Of Software]

📅 Week 02

All Sons Are Handsome; All Daughters Are Beautiful - Pitching Enterprise Software - Monday, 10 January 2022
[Business Of Software]

2021 Posts : 73

December 2021 - 2 Posts

📅 Week 51

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 30 - Simplified Argument Null Checks - Tuesday, 21 December 2021
[.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

📅 Week 49

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 29 - Writing Raw JSON Using Utf8JsonWriter - Monday, 6 December 2021
[.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

November 2021 - 10 Posts

📅 Week 48

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 28 - JSON Serialization To & From Streams - Monday, 29 November 2021
[.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

📅 Week 47

Tip - SQL Server User Defined Table Types - Column Order Matters - Wednesday, 24 November 2021
[SQL Server]

📅 Week 46

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 27 - Extended Property Patterns - Friday, 19 November 2021
[.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

📅 Week 45

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 26 - Sealed ToString() In Records - Friday, 12 November 2021
[.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 25 - Hot Reload - Tuesday, 9 November 2021
[.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
.NET 6 Release - Tuesday, 9 November 2021
[.NET, C#]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 24 - Parallel.ForEachAsync - Monday, 8 November 2021
[.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

📅 Week 44

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 23 - Nullable References - Thursday, 4 November 2021
[.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 22 - LINQ Default Parameters - Tuesday, 2 November 2021
[.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 21 - Constant Interpolated Strings - Monday, 1 November 2021
[.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

October 2021 - 10 Posts

📅 Week 43

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 20 - Json Property Ordering - Wednesday, 27 October 2021
[.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

📅 Week 42

Saving Collections Of Primitives In Entity Framework Core - Thursday, 21 October 2021
[C#, Entity Framework Core]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 19 - Record Structs - Thursday, 21 October 2021
[.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
.NET 6 Release Candidate 2 Out - Monday, 18 October 2021
[.NET, C#]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 18 - File Scoped Namespaces - Monday, 18 October 2021
[.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

📅 Week 41

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 17 - New Timer - PeriodicTimer - Tuesday, 12 October 2021
[.NET, C#, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

📅 Week 40

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 16 - HTTP/3 Support - Thursday, 7 October 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
Installing .NET 6 On Linux - Thursday, 7 October 2021
[.NET, C#]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 15 - SOCKS Proxy Support - Tuesday, 5 October 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

📅 Week 39

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 14 - Implicit Usings - Friday, 1 October 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

September 2021 - 15 Posts

📅 Week 39

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 13 - LINQ Improvements - Chunk - Wednesday, 29 September 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 12 - Collection Count Performance Improvement - Tuesday, 28 September 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

📅 Week 38

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 11 - LINQ Improvements - Range Support - Friday, 24 September 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 10 - SDK & Runtime Version Checking - Thursday, 23 September 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 9 - LINQ Improvements - DistinctBy - Wednesday, 22 September 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 8 - Control Of Serialization Of Object Cycles - Tuesday, 21 September 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
.NET 6 Release Candidate 1 Out - Tuesday, 21 September 2021
[.NET, C#]

📅 Week 37

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 7 - Simpler Web Application Development - Tuesday, 14 September 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 6 - Priority Queue - Monday, 13 September 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

📅 Week 36

30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 5 - Mathematics API Additions - Friday, 10 September 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 4 - LINQ Improvements - MaxBy & MinBy - Thursday, 9 September 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 3 - TimeOnly Type - Wednesday, 8 September 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - Day 2 - Friendly To Newcomers - Tuesday, 7 September 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]
30 Days Of .NET 6 - DateOnly Type - Monday, 6 September 2021
[C#, .NET, 30 Days Of .NET 6]

📅 Week 35

Fix - .NET 6 Not Being Recognized After Install - Friday, 3 September 2021
[.NET]

August 2021 - 4 Posts

📅 Week 35

About Software Bloat - Monday, 30 August 2021
[Business Of Software]

📅 Week 34

Fix - Docker Error On Upgrade - aufs storage - Wednesday, 25 August 2021
[Linux, Docker]

📅 Week 32

Fix - Unavailable Resource Error When Posting HTTP Request To Teams - Friday, 13 August 2021
[Teams]

📅 Week 31

Tip - Get Current Date In C# - Saturday, 7 August 2021
[C#, Tips]

July 2021 - 5 Posts

📅 Week 30

Reducing Bugs And Improving Maintainability Through Better Domain Design - Thursday, 29 July 2021
[C#, Design]
Sending Teams Messages Using PowerShell - Thursday, 29 July 2021
[Teams, PowerShell]

📅 Week 29

Better Assertion Testing With FluentAssertions - Sunday, 25 July 2021
[Testing, XUnit, NUnit]

📅 Week 26

The Value Of Good Documentation - Saturday, 3 July 2021
[Business Of Software, Documentation]
Beware - F# Doesn't Support C# Types Using Init Modifiers - Friday, 2 July 2021
[F#, Interop]

June 2021 - 5 Posts

📅 Week 25

On Career Progression - Tuesday, 22 June 2021
[Personal Development, Career, Business Of Software]

📅 Week 24

Tip - Locating Commands In The Path On Windows - Monday, 14 June 2021
[Tips]

📅 Week 23

Tip - TimeSpan Minutes vs TotalMinutes - Friday, 11 June 2021
[C#, Time, Tips]
The Cost Of Adding Features To Software - Thursday, 10 June 2021
[Business Of Software]
Fix - Docker For Windows Not Running - Wednesday, 9 June 2021
[Fixes, Docker]

May 2021 - 4 Posts

📅 Week 22

Gitlab HTTP Authentication With 2FA - Monday, 31 May 2021
[Tools, Gitlab]

📅 Week 21

About Default Interface Impementations - Monday, 24 May 2021
[C#]
The Other Integer Types - Monday, 24 May 2021
[C#]

📅 Week 18

Tip - Making Use Of Windows Terminal Tab Captions - Tuesday, 4 May 2021
[Tips, Windows Terminal]

April 2021 - 2 Posts

📅 Week 16

Fix For The string argument propertyNames cannot be empty - Sunday, 25 April 2021
[Entity Framework Core, C#, Fixes]

📅 Week 14

Disqus Off - Tuesday, 6 April 2021
[Meta]

March 2021 - 5 Posts

📅 Week 11

Using System.Text.Json To Enforce API Logic - Saturday, 20 March 2021
[Design, API, System.Text.Json]

📅 Week 10

Deleting RabbitMQ Queues With EasyNetQ - Thursday, 11 March 2021
[RabbitMQ, EasyNetQ]
Fix For Cannot use LINQ in MatchCollection Regex with .NET Standard 2 - Wednesday, 10 March 2021
[C#, LINQ, Fixes]
Handling Null And Empty Strings With System.Text.Json - Tuesday, 9 March 2021
[C#, System.Text.Json]

📅 Week 09

Inheritance In Business Logic Is Likely A Code Smell - Part 1 - Saturday, 6 March 2021
[C#, Design]

February 2021 - 6 Posts

📅 Week 08

Handling Exceptions With Refit - Sunday, 28 February 2021
[C#]

📅 Week 06

Consuming REST JSON APIs From Excel - Thursday, 11 February 2021
[Excel, WebAPI, REST]
Fix - error CS8805 Program using top-level statements must be an executable - Wednesday, 10 February 2021
[C#, Fixes]

📅 Week 05

Using Regex MatchEvaluators In C# - Tuesday, 2 February 2021
[Regex]
Remember To Encode QueryString Data - Tuesday, 2 February 2021
[Tips]
Be Clearer With TimeSpans - Tuesday, 2 February 2021
[Tips, Time]

January 2021 - 5 Posts

📅 Week 03

Entity Framework Core - Unique Constraits vs Unique Indexes - Monday, 18 January 2021
[Entity Framework Core]

📅 Week 02

UI Fails - Oracle VirtualBox 6.1 - Saturday, 16 January 2021
[Fails, UI Fails]
Fix For Entity Framework Core Not Generating Indexes & Constraints - Thursday, 14 January 2021
[Entity Framework Core, Fixes]
Fix For Entity Framework Tools Error - Tuesday, 12 January 2021
[Entity Framework Core, Fixes]
Fix For pgAdmin Not Loading - Monday, 11 January 2021
[PostgreSQL, Fixes]

2020 Posts : 41

December 2020 - 4 Posts

📅 Week 53

What Do You Actually Agree To When You Accept All Cookies - Wednesday, 30 December 2020
[Business Of Software, People]

📅 Week 52

Improving HttpClient Requests - Monday, 21 December 2020
[C#, HttpClient]

📅 Week 51

Beware of HttpClient Header Validations - Monday, 14 December 2020
[C#, HttpClient]

📅 Week 49

Remote Debugging In VS Code - Thursday, 3 December 2020
[C#, VS Code]

November 2020 - 6 Posts

📅 Week 48

HTTP Redirects Using HttpClient - Monday, 23 November 2020
[C#, Under The Hood, HttpClient]

📅 Week 47

Refactoring With Records In C# - Saturday, 21 November 2020
[C#, Records]
Changing The Default Shell In IntelliJ To PowerShell - Tuesday, 17 November 2020
[IntelliJ]

📅 Week 46

Conditional Logic In MSBuild - Thursday, 12 November 2020
[.NET, MSBuild]
Getting Now Playing Information From WQXR In .NET - Monday, 9 November 2020
[.NET, C#, API, HttpClient]

📅 Week 45

Posting Messages To Microsoft Teams With Code - Wednesday, 4 November 2020
[C#, .NET, Microsoft Teams]

October 2020 - 2 Posts

📅 Week 44

Disable SSL Certificate Validation In .NET - Saturday, 31 October 2020
[C#]
Querying & Extracing Data From YouTrack - Friday, 30 October 2020
[C#, YouTrack]

September 2020 - 1 Posts

📅 Week 36

Chrome UI Surprises - Friday, 4 September 2020
[UI, UX]

July 2020 - 1 Posts

📅 Week 27

Joining Strings - Part 4 : String.Format - Wednesday, 1 July 2020
[.NET, Under The Hood]

June 2020 - 3 Posts

📅 Week 26

Joining Strings - Part 3 : StringBuilder - Monday, 22 June 2020
[.NET, Under The Hood]

📅 Week 25

Joining Strings - Part 2 : String.Concat - Monday, 15 June 2020
[.NET, Under The Hood]

📅 Week 24

Upgrading To WSL 2 - Wednesday, 10 June 2020
[WSL]

May 2020 - 7 Posts

📅 Week 22

Joining Strings - Part 1 : The + Operator - Thursday, 28 May 2020
[.NET, Under The Hood]
Jekyll, Ruby & OpenSSH - Wednesday, 27 May 2020
[Meta, Ruby, Windows, Linux]
Goodbye Wordpress - Monday, 25 May 2020
[Epiphanies]

📅 Week 21

Using IIS With ASP.NET Core 3.0 - Sunday, 24 May 2020
[ASP.NET Core]
Using Curl In PowerShell - Tuesday, 19 May 2020
[PowerShell]

📅 Week 20

Touch In PowerShell - Saturday, 16 May 2020
[PowerShell]

📅 Week 19

How Old Is Your Language? - Tuesday, 5 May 2020
[Epiphanies, Languages]

April 2020 - 9 Posts

📅 Week 18

Decimals, Precision And Scale - Tuesday, 28 April 2020
[SQL Server, .NET]

📅 Week 17

Extracting Bytes From A F# String - Saturday, 25 April 2020
[F#, Tips]

📅 Week 16

Should all bugs be fixed? - Sunday, 19 April 2020
[Epiphanies, Business Of Software]
What Is A Software Company? - Sunday, 19 April 2020
[Epiphanies, Software]
Count vs Length vs Any - Checking Collection Emptiness - Tuesday, 14 April 2020
[C#, Under The Hood]

📅 Week 15

Getting Your Internet IP Address - Saturday, 11 April 2020
[PowerShell]
Properties Under The Hood - Friday, 10 April 2020
[Under The Hood, C#]

📅 Week 14

Arguments Handling Across Paradigms - Sunday, 5 April 2020
[C#, F#, Lisp, Languages]
FizzBuzz In F# - Wednesday, 1 April 2020
[F#]

March 2020 - 8 Posts

📅 Week 13

Using Nuget In F# Scripts - Sunday, 29 March 2020
[F#, Nuget]
Pinning Nuget Package Versions - Saturday, 28 March 2020
[Nuget]
Controlling Creation Of .NET Core Projects - Wednesday, 25 March 2020
[.NET]

📅 Week 12

Fun With Tuples In C# 7 & Above - Saturday, 21 March 2020
[C#]
Verifying File Hashes With PowerShell - Thursday, 19 March 2020
[PowerShell]

📅 Week 11

AsReadOnly() May Not Be Doing What You Think! - Wednesday, 11 March 2020
[C#]
Beware Of Controller Name Typos In ASP.NET Core Controllers - Wednesday, 11 March 2020
[ASP.NET Core]
Copy SSH Key In Windows 10 - Monday, 9 March 2020
[PowerShell]

Total Posts : 359

2025 Posts : 150

May 2025 - 30 Posts

📅 Week 22

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Amazon]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Azure]

[C#, .NET]

[SQL Server]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Amazon]

📅 Week 21

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Amazon]

[C#, .NET]

[C#, .NET]

[C#, .NET]

[SQL Server, .NET, Dapper]

[SQL Server]

[.NET]

📅 Week 20

[.NET, C#]

[.NET, Nuget]

[C#, .NET, Configuration]

[C#, .NET]

[C#, .NET, Configuration]

[C#, .NET, Configuration]

[UI, UX]

📅 Week 19

[C#, .NET, Configuration]

[C#, .NET, Configuration]

[Shell, Linux, OSX]

[C#, .NET, Security]

[C#, .NET, Dapper, Database]

[.NET, C#, Dapper, StarLibrary]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Azure]

📅 Week 18

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Azure]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, PostgreSQL]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, SQL Server, PostgreSQL]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, xUnit]

April 2025 - 30 Posts

📅 Week 18

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, TestContainers, StarLibrary]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Dapper]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, PostgreSQL, Dapper]

📅 Week 17

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, SQL Server, Dapper]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, Aes, Encryption]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, StarLibrary, GZip, Compression]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, StarLibrary, Moq]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design, Testing, StarLibrary, Moq]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design]

📅 Week 16

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design]

[.NET, C#, OpenSource, Design]

[C#, .NET]

[SQL]

[C#, .NET]

📅 Week 15

[Testing, xUnit, Serilog]

[Testing, xUnit, Serilog]

[Testing, xUnit, Serilog]

[Git, Source Control]

[C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

[C#, .NET]

[C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

📅 Week 14

[C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

[C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

[Testing, FluentAssertions, StarLibrary]

[Java]

[C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

[Carter, ASP.NET]

March 2025 - 31 Posts

📅 Week 14

[C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

📅 Week 13

[C#, .NET, Stateless, StarLibrary]

[Tips, C#, .NET]