Rob Janssen (RobIII)

.NET Debugging: 6 techniques you need in your arsenal

Debugging. It’s one of the most time-consuming ways of finding a bug. As a senior .NET developer, I can tell you that it’s best to avoid the necessity for debugging altogether by writing clean code that’s covered by automated tests.

Almost All Web Encryption Works Like This (SP Networks) - Computerphile

Substitution-permutation networks are the basis for almost all modern symmetric cryptography. Dr Mike Pound explains. https://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileThis video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.l

Big O is really Big! (PART 1)

Big O, this is really an important topic to deal with. You can barely see an interview without this topic. And this is a concept that will last for a long time in a developer’s world.

Securing Web Applications and APIs with ASP.NET Core 2.2 and 3.0 - Dominick Baier

ASP.NET Core and MVC is a mature and modern platform to build secure web applications and APIs for a while now. Starting with version 2.2, Microsoft makes big investments in the areas of standards-based authentication, single sign-on and API security by including the popular open source project Iden

Let's Talk HTTP in .NET Core - Steve Gordon

In the world of microservices (yes, there's that buzzword again!) and distributed systems, we often find ourselves communicating over HTTP. What seems like a simple requirement can quickly become complicated! Networks aren't reliable and services fail. Dealing with those inevitable facts and avoidin

When "Zoë" !== "Zoë". Or why you need to normalize Unicode strings

This is not another one of JavaScript’s oddities, and I could have shown you the very same result with code in almost every other programming language, including Python, Go, and even shell scripts.

A gentle introduction to multithreading

Modern computers have the ability to perform multiple operations at the same time. Supported by hardware advancements and smarter operating systems, this feature makes your programs run faster, both in terms of speed of execution and responsiveness.

Programming Quotes

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

Don’t Make Squirrel Burgers

Your manager comes to you and says “Hey, Joe. Let’s talk. I need to get a new system developed to keep track of our help desk calls. It needs to have a slick user-interface that is easy to navigate, it needs to be fast, and also we need integration with SAP.

Generating IDs in C#, 'safely' and efficiently

Recently I needed to find an efficient algorithm for generating unique IDs in a highly concurrent and low latency component. After looking at several options I settled for the algorithm used by the Kestrel HTTP server.