I recently attended the AWS Summit in London and thought I would give some notes on the event from my perspective. As a developer working for a company that uses AWS, there was plenty to get out of an event such as this, and the free attendance makes a great…
I decided a while ago that the next language I would try to learn is Rust. I don't want to go too much into Rust other than to repeat its own summary: Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety. -- https:…
I heard a great quote yesterday: You can't out-exercise a bad diet And this is a great metaphor for technical debt. We all agree that you need to pay down your tech debt in your software. And it's great to commit to addressing a little technical debt during each sprint.…
Our team recently went through the Bowling Game Kata (as seen on Clean Code) from Uncle Bob. Here are some interesting learnings and takeaways from the session that I picked up on. Practice makes perfect The only way to get good at something is to practice. The concept of doing…
I never really got into Stylecop or FXCop. I did make use of some of the Resharper autoformatting configuration, and static analysis features, and have in the past automated and configured this. But since starting to use Visual Studio Code, I have been looking for more and more ways to…
I wrote Building a Windows Service with .Net Core and had a bit of flack because I was only using .Net core to build a .Net 4.5.2 application. Technically the title is still valid, it was a windows service, and I built it using .Net Core tools. But…
Well, mostly. I hear the excuse a lot from developers, "Oh, because I am lazy". This seems to be some sort of way of justifying the way we do some of our development, automation scripts, bash power-user commands like grep and awk, even writing a program to solve…
I have opinions! I've been meaning to write this article for a while. I have various opinions about code formatting, and they may or may not conform to the norm. Also, they change occasionally as and when I get a good explanation of why a different way is better, or…