Exploring Object Layouts
Removing fields from an object should reduce that object's size. Why am I not seeing any difference?
ReadPlotting stacked bar charts in Rust
Using Plotters, a Rust-based data plotting library, to generate bar charts.
ReadMarket Research: Senior Engineer in London
Working as a Senior Engineer in London: what's the market rate?
ReadVisualizing the language migration of a codebase
Migrating a codebase from one language to another is a long journey. Using a simple shell script you can create a quick and useful visual.
ReadExecuting commands in the Terminal from Swift
How can you open a new Terminal and execute commands from a Swift app?
ReadUnit Testing redux-persist migrations with Typescript
redux-persist allows you to specify a migration path between versions, but how can you do that in a strongly-typed way through Typescript?
ReadBetter diagrams through DOT
Building flow diagrams can be tedious to create and even more to update. Rather than drawing shapes and lines yourself, consider using DOT to focus on what matters: the data.
ReadDeploying To Github Packages Through Azure Devops
Github recently announced their own package registry. How do you go about including it in your Azure CI/CD deployment workflow?
ReadUsing TaskCompletionSource to change the semantics of async calls
We need to asynchronously call external processes and proceed when we have a result. How do we do that without requiring a re-architecture of our entire iterative system?
ReadHere be dragons: string concatenation
String concatenation can be done in several ways, each with their own advantages and usecases. In this blogpost I will take a closer look at 4 different ways of concatenating strings and how these are implemented internally. At the end of this post I hope I will have made clear when they are useful, when they are not and how they compare to eachother implementation-wise.
ReadLaunching your first WebApp in Visual Studio Code through Gulp
What you’ll read here is just a quick overview of setting up gulp and Visual Studio Code to get your first AngularJS app working.
ReadGenerating a NuGet package in a localized directory on each build
Short walkthrough on configuring NuGet to publish a package to your local feed
ReadQuick Tip: Getting a variable's data during debugging
Ever wanted a quick overview of an element in debug mode?
ReadA few important Roslyn API helpers
The Roslyn API as implemented in RC2 has been out for a few months now and is likely to remain largely unchanged while they’re working on getting it released officially. I think it might be time to do a little write-up and identify the key-components of that API that you likely want to use when building your own diagnostics, syntax writers or anything else possible with the platform.
ReadIntroducing: VSDiagnostics
I am happy to announce the first release of VSDiagnostics! This project is a group of diagnostics meant for Visual Studio 2015 and up which will help the developer adhere to best practices and avoid common pitfalls.
ReadGetting started with your first diagnostic
With the release of Visual Studio 2015 RC, we also received the pretty much final implementation of the Diagnostics implementation. This SDK allows us to create our own diagnostics to help us write proper code that’s being verified against those rules in real-time: you don’t have to perform the verification at a separate build-step. What’s more is that we can combine that with a code fix: a shortcut integrated in Visual Studio that provides us a solution to what we determine to be a problem.
ReadHello Linux!
Like many other .NET developers I have been following the Build conference that’s going on right now. One of its biggest announcements (so far) was the release of Visual Studio Code and the accompanying CoreCLR for Linux and Mac. It sounds nice and all but I wanted to try this out myself. I have decided to get a Console Application working in Ubuntu 14.04 since we’ve all seen by now how to deploy an ASP.NET web application.
ReadHow to configure a custom IdentityUser for Entity-Framework
I am getting accustomed to the ASP.NET Identity framework and let me just say that I love it. No more boring hassle with user accounts: all the traditional stuff is already there. However often you’ll find yourself wanting to expand on the default IdentityUser class and add your own fields to it. This was my use case as well here and since I couldn’t find any clear instructions on how this is done exactly, I decided to dive into it especially for you! Well, maybe a little bit for me as well.
ReadUnit testing Web API routes and parameter validation
Let’s talk about routing. If you’ve ever developed a web application then you know the hassle you have with the constant “Resource not found” or “Multiple actions match the request” errors. What if I told you you could fix all this without ever having to open a browser? That’s right: we’ll unit test our routes! As an added bonus I’ll also show how you can unit test parameter validation since that’s probably one of the most important things to do when creating a (public) API.
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