My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Using Rebase in Visual Studio

February 26, 2018
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I mentioned a couple of weeks back how I am using Visual Studio to manage my local feature branches, however, I did not ...

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What would C# look like without null?

February 21, 2018
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I was happily and randomly tweeting yesterday (as you do) and it occurred to me that I take null for granted. More ...

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OS GitHub contributions with Visual Studio

February 07, 2018
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I had a really productive discussion with my extended development teammates last week, I was able to give a high level ...

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Converting a HttpHandler to Middleware

January 18, 2018
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Back in the day we would write Http Handlers to process requests that needed to be tied to a particular endpoint while ...

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Giving thanks!

January 14, 2018
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I am genuinely grateful for life that I have been gifted and for the many privileges that I have been afforded. I ...

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Do we still upgrade PCs?

January 03, 2018
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Many years ago it was both necessary and indeed a right of passage to upgrade some part of your PC. We would upgrade ...

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Creating TagHelpers with Core MVC

December 29, 2017
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I am looking for help with DasBlog, lots and lots of help, and to that end I am trying to ensure that I am not just ...

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Span in C#

December 22, 2017
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I just got through reading Stephen Toub’s 'All about Span: Exploring a new .NET Mainstay', it is comprehensive, ...

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Node as a cmdlet replacement?

December 18, 2017
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A colleague was making a really compelling case today for moving our batch based processes from bat files and cmdlets ...

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