Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past little wonders posts can be found here.
JavaScript for C# DevelopersBeyond squiggly braces and case sensitivity, there’s not much in common between C# and JavaScript. Take this hour to get into the guts of what makes JavaScript special.
Hands On Lab: Visual Studio 2013 Web ToolsVisual Studio is an excellent development environment for .NET-based Windows and web projects. It includes a powerful text editor that can easily be used to edit standalone files without a project. Visual Studio maintains a full-featured parse tree as you edit each file.
The Right Database for Your Use CaseIt’s been a while since I last posted, so I thought I’d share some of the things that I’ve been working on over the past few months to delight the audience of developers I write and research for.
Fast immutable vectors in C#In the last post I talked about immutable stacks & queues. This post will be on immutable vectors. We want to support 3 operations:
What Are the Odds the Build Actually Works?I’ve noticed that builds are broken and tests fail a lot more often on open source projects than on “work” projects. I wasn’t sure how much of that was my perception vs. reality, so I grabbed the travis CI data for a few popular categories on github1.
Smarter Link Underlines For Every WebsiteMarcin Wichary from Medium recently wrote a similar post on this topic, which I highly recommend. This post summarizes an expansion on his work, particularly as it relates to this comment thread on text-shadow.
Why Google doesn’t care about hiring top college graduates – QuartzGoogle has spent years analyzing who succeeds at the company, which has moved away from a focus on GPAs, brand name schools, and interview brain teasers.
The Rise And Fall Of The Full Stack DeveloperEditor’s note: Peter Yared is the founder and CTO of Sapho and was formerly the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive. It seems as though everyone in tech today is infatuated with the full-stack developer. Full stack may have been possible in the Web 2.
Internet of Things: The Good, the Bad and the UglyInternet of Things (IoT) is a phrase gaining foothold in the international lexicon of technology. It refers to the growing number of everyday objects that are able to connect to the internet and communicate with each other.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.