Part 2 of my two part musings on navigating your way in a post .NET Framework world and how to adapt to the shifting landscape of software. — This two part musing reflects the conversations I’ve had with some good friends and former teammates of mine as well as reflections on some of my own observations over the last few years as I prepare to join one of the few Bay Area VC-backed startups using .NET on the…

Finding your way in a post .NET Framework world as a boomer .NET developer. — This two part musing reflects the conversations I’ve had with some good friends and former teammates of mine as well as reflections on some of my own observations over the last few years as I prepare to join one of the few Bay Area VC-backed startups using .NET …

It’s simple: you’re missing the forest for the tree. — The ubiquity of Git in the world of software engineering means that the tooling and processes around it have somewhat coalesced more or less into a few handful of patterns with respect to developer workflows and software release patterns. These include: Git flow GitHub flow GitLab flow At the core…

Find out how we can use object-oriented principles to create structural control flow versus procedural control flow and improve our code. — The premise of these two articles is a bit of re-imagining in how we think about object-oriented programming paradigms and what benefits we can achieve through adopting them. We’ll take a more practical and pragmatic view of OOP rather than the very typical academic Shape, Circle, Square approach.

It’s easy to be an “object bigot”; instead, let’s talk about practical, pragmatic ways to adopt basic, everyday object-oriented paradigms. — Whom among us hasn’t come across the classic example of Shape, Circle, and Square? Or Animal, Mammal, Human, and Cat? While these are all sensible ways to think about and teach the core concepts of object-oriented programming, I’ve always found them to be quite impractical and perhaps a bit too…

If your React project is littered with ternaries, then read on and find out how to clean up your JSX/TSX with one simple, 2 minute… — Having jumped into a few React projects, I’ve noticed an extraordinary preponderance of using (and abusing) ternary operators in React. Does this look familiar? Yeah, of course it does, doesn’t it; who hasn’t seen React code like this? 🤣 I’ve seen ternaries more than 10 deep 😱 (at some point…

Ready to make the leap from JavaScript to TypeScript on the server? Time to take a first (or second) look at C# 10 and .NET 6! — As I’ve worked with JavaScript and TypeScript on Node backends over the last year, there was always a point in the project when I wonder “This would be way better in C# and .NET 6”. When proposed to various teams, the responses I’ve gotten have been interesting. There’s Been a…Misunderstanding

Building a user-scripted JavaScript rules engine in .NET 6 using the Jint library. — In the past, when I’ve needed a user-defined rules engine in .NET, I’ve explored writing a custom domain specific language using the Irony language implementation kit. But mostly, I’ve used SpringFramework.NET which includes an awesome expression evaluation engine. The expression evaluation engine allowed writing string-based rules and even inline functions…