I have given the same recommendations so many times in person on spur of the moment situations I figured I would be doing everyone a […]
Avoid using FileZilla for work
Goodbye FileZilla I have been using FileZilla since it came out (I think?) back in 2001. It was heralded as being an excellent FTP client […]
Replacing the CyberPower EC850LCD battery
Gotcha Normally instructions are not required for replacing a UPS battery, but unfortunately there is some misinformation out on the CyberPower website that I found […]
Key value biases
I was told the other day by a Principal Engineer (PE) to change a class I wrote and I didn’t agree with his reasoning. This […]
Leaving reviews for podcasts
Obscure If you listen to podcasts you may hear your podcaster begin, end or randomly blurt out something to the effect of, “Please leave a […]
dot net core windows service hosting order of operations
Gotcha Imagine you have a dot net core application you initially created as a console application. You can easily run it as a windows service […]
Generic Types and Equals
Gotcha I don’t have to implement/override Equals that often in my classes so I always have a hard time remembering some of the subtleties behind […]
Misconceptions about async Tasks
This article is about asynchronous programming in C# using Task and Task<T>. Do you really need to make your code asynchronous? The first misconception about […]
Unit testing private constructs
There is a philosophy out there of people who say that you should only ever test publicly accessible constructs. For argument’s sake let’s just talk […]
Repairing keyboard leather wrist rest
The Problem I type a lot, I never counted the number of words per day and maybe I should, but it’s enough to have made […]