I’m sure you’ve heard this saying somewhere in the past, but do you know the full saying? If not, here it is: A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one. Seems applicable in software development.
I came across an interesting article today. It’s called Why Older People Struggle In Programming Jobs written by Adam Nathaniel Davis. There are several sections to this article around dealing with office politics, tech churn, fanboys, and the cookie-cutter-ing of software. One of the most soul-sucking trends in dev over the last decade-plus has been […]
Do you know what a README is? You can add a README file to your repository to tell other people why your project is useful, what they can do with your project, and how they can use it. GitHub’s About READMEs Pretty good idea isn’t it? Why should we stop there? When you are looking […]
My post from yesterday talked about the biggest class I have come across in my lifetime. Turns out, thanks to C#’s partial keyword, the class is even bigger. I have some code metrics from Visual Studio to share. Here they are: Maintainability Index Cyclomatic Complexity Depth of Inheritance Class Coupling Lines of Source code 49 […]
I was working with a new codebase today and I was working on wrapping some unit tests around a section of code in a class. While working, I realized I had come across the BIGGEST class I have ever seen in my life. So big in fact that Visual Studio’s IntelliSense was lagging. For the […]
I picked up Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert certification last week. I posted it to LinkedIn but it didn’t make it here until now. To get this certification, you have to do the following: Achieve 1 of 2 certifications; Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (which I have) or Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate. Take and […]
If you are a powerlifter or weightlifter, you may be familar with the website loadingcharts.com. I came up with the idea in the late ’00s. It’s basically a connectionstrings.com but for powerlifting/weightlifting. Take a look and feel free to provide feedback! Thanks.
I’ve been studying for the AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions exam. As part of the preparation for that exam, you build a bunch of CI/CD pipelines. Every example given has a GitHub repo with 1 solution and 1 web project. That’s great for demoware, but we aren’t writing demoware. Let’s say you have […]
As I posted back in March, I have completed another Azure certification (Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate). This time I took the AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure exam. I took the exam back on April 15th and because the exam was in beta when I took it, I just got the results of the […]
Just recently Claudio Lassala and George Mauer have resurrected their Virtual Brown Bag Meetings on Thursdays from 12-1 pm Central. I like to attend them because it gives me a look at what people are doing outside of the tech stack I usually play in or ideas for new ways to play with my current […]