Long time, no post. In 2020, when everyone went to work from home, a lot of my colleagues ramped up their blogging and YouTubing and tried their best to become personal brands. As for myself, I sort of shut down Continue reading
Note: Here s one from the backlog that I hope to get back to one day. I m currently working on a GraphQL-based project, which makes this all superfluous, and I ve had to shelve my work on this, but I want to Continue reading
Code Generation Code generation is a great way to apply patterns consistently across a solution or to create multiple similar classes based on some outside input file, or even other classes in the same solution. The tooling has changed over Continue reading
Don t Repeat Yourself Developers should all be familiar with this mantra, but we tend to think of it only as it relates to the code, and not the coder. It s the second part that I want to talk about, so Continue reading
Every now and then I ll be throwing some Notes out there. These are things that I ve come across before, solved before, and then somehow forgotten about. Inevitably, the problem happens again someday, and I spend far too long searching the Continue reading
My father s man cave was always covered in sawdust. He was a woodworker by nature. He had a normal day job, but I think in his ideal world he would have preferred if people had just paid him to stay Continue reading
It seems like every luminary in the world of software development has chimed in on this one at some point, so why not one more, right? Sure, I m not a famous known name in the software world. I ve done some Continue reading
For those who have watched my Pluralsight Course, it has been recently updated to include changes brought by Raspbian Stretch. I wasn t able to completely refresh the content end to end, but the former CrashPlan module has been completely replaced, and now Continue reading
It looks like Code42 isn t interested in home users anymore, and they ve announced that they are shifting focus to enterprise users. Even if you were backing up to your own computers, your account is still going away, and with it Continue reading