Let’s talk Docker! Docker is a container platform that allows developers to control the environment to which their application is deployed. This is great for a few reasons, the first is there are no more issues of “it works on my machine” since the container image you are testing against... Read more
User Stories are chunks of desired behavior of a software system. - Martin Fowler (1)
The user story is a basic building block of most Agile-based systems. Over the years, I have noticed some patterns and anti-patterns that have emerged in the user stories that my teams... Read more
I found myself needing to switch from a Windows environment to a Linux environment. During that process, one thing became very apparent: This sucks!
I needed a solution that would allow me to switch environments seamlessly.
Enter Docker
Docker has been touted as the solution for many issues. Most of... Read more
Last year, I was at a client and I had to integrate an Entity Framework 4 library into a new shiny .NET Core application. The library had already been converted to .NET Standard, therefore I made the assumption that this would be the easy part of delivering this software.
I... Read more
How do I concatenate strings in C#?
This is a pretty common question amongst beginners. Building a string is a basic function for any programming language, but how that string is built can matter greatly to a program’s performance. The typical wisdom in C# for this question is... Read more