Learn By Doing
A few weeks ago Introducing Postman , my first course for LinkedIn Learning/Lynda.com went live. This course focuses on many of the most useful features for individuals working with Web-based APIs including making requests, organizing requests, managing environments and variables, and sharing authentication methods across requests within folders and collections. In an effort to minimize 3rd [ ]
Despite being proud of what we achieved with Indy.Code() I've decided to part ways with Amegala. Don't worry, though - I'm still committed to having a great conference here in Indianapolis and I've got a new team to help me do it!
I ve been using VS Code for quite some time now. In fact, given the nature of my work recently I ve found myself spending more time in VS Code than in VS 2017 over the past several months. The out-of-the-box , stock experience with VS Code is truly fantastic and has provided me with just about all [ ]
A little over two years ago my career took an unexpected turn. I found myself in a perfect position to begin life as an independent software developer. Since then I ve been offering consulting and training services under the banner of Achiiv Solutions, LLC. (Don t bother looking at the site it s just a placeholder!) In [ ]
Early Wednesday morning I arrived at the Kansas City Convention Center for KCDC, one of my favorite conferences. I chose the right door to enter the facility because immediately inside was my good friend Heather Downing. Heather was hard at work putting the finishing touches on part of VML s sponsor booth exhibit an Alexa [ ]
Today I, along with a number of my friends got duped into clicking on a phishing attack posing as Google Docs link. The offending email essentially states that a document has been shared with you and gives a legitimate looking button enticing the unsuspecting target to click it. Since the email I received appeared to be from [ ]
Over the past few years life has taken me on an interesting journey. What started off as blogging led to writing a book, authoring some Pluralsight courses, receiving a few Microsoft MVP awards, and speaking at user groups and conferences around the world. Through all these activities I ve connected with amazing people doing incredible things [ ]
It s no secret that string interpolation is one of my favorite C# 6 language features because of how well it cleans up that messy composite formatting syntax. A few days ago I was working on some code that contained a verbatim string that included a few of the classic tokens and I wondered if string [ ]
One of the most common questions I get in regard to the Map and Tee extension methods I presented in my recent Pluralsight course is That s great but how do I debug these chains? I get it debugging a lengthy method chain can seem like a monumental task upon first glance but I assure you, [ ]
The response to my new Functional Programming with C# course on Pluralsight has been far better than I ever imagined it would be while I was writing it. Thanks, everyone for your support! One viewer, John Hoerr, asked an interesting question about how to include async methods within a chain. I have to be honest [ ]