Gatsby and Sanity.io are a great pair for creating JAMstack projects like blogs. In these videos, I am working to migrate my Gatsby blog from using markdown files to using the Headless CMS called Sanity.io. After starting this migration, I am loving Gatsby and…
COBOL is often a source of amusement for programmers because it is seen as old, verbose, clunky, and difficult to maintain. COBOL can now be used to write code for Cloudflare’s serverless platform Workers.
Power Query is a data connection technology that enables you to discover, connect, combine, and refine data sources to meet your analysis needs. Features in Power Query are available in Excel and Power BI Desktop. Power Query was developed for windows and is w…
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MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON. But it's faster and smaller. Small integers are encoded into a single byte, and typical short strings require only one extra byte in addition…
Blazor technology enables you to create sophisticated, manageable, and extensible single-page applications using C# and Razor syntax. Blazor Succinctly wil...
For pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression.
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This is a comprehensive guide on how to utilize drag and drop image uploading with pure Javascript.
A new preview update of Blazor WebAssembly is now available! Here’s what’s new in this release: Access host environment during startup Logging improvements Brotli precompression Load assemblies and runtime in parallel Simplify IL linker config for apps Locali…
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In this .NET focused post, I demonstrate how to create a ReadOnlySequence from some existing data held in multiple arrays.
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Recently I had one of my newsletter subscribers ask me a question about whether it was a good practice to use a boolean parameter to alter the behavior of a method. Martin Fowler describes (many of*) these as Flag Arguments. The topic is also covered in this S…
We are happy to announce that the April 2020 release (1.2020.402.0) of the MSIX Packaging Tool is now available! We have been evaluating the public health situation and understand the impact this is having on many of our customers. Due to the current circums…
How to augment a TypeScript interface in the global scope via interface declaration merging.
I've had a lot of people ask me to write up a guide to creating great technical screencasts. This is an update to my ...
An experience report of converting a large microservice platform from .NET Framework to dotnet core. Background For the last year or so...
In this blog post, we explore classes as values:
An experience report of converting a large microservice platform from .NET Framework to dotnet core. Background For the last year or so...
Download our student developer coloring book and complete the pages digitally, or print them out and color by hand. The pages have variety of designs ranging from simple to complex. Be sure to share your creations with us on social, we can’t wait to see your c…
The use of mocks in unit testing is a controversial topic (maybe less so now than several years ago). I remember how, throughout my programming career, I went from mocking almost every dependency, to the "no-mocks" policy, and then to "only mock external depe…
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Folding@Home's distributed disease-busting network is now running at over 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second.
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Learn to use Entity Framework Core, a modern object-database mapper for .NET that supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations. Browse tutorials, sample code, fundamentals, API reference and more.