Developing Dane

This is not a mathematical proof for the period of a simple pendulum. For that you can find the basics in any first year physics book. »

I originally came across Stowage on the blog aggregator Awesome .NET. Its github repo has a description which reads "Stowage is a bloat-free .NET cloud storage »

Description JsonEnvelopes is a simple .NET Standard library which utilizes a concrete implementation of JsonCovnverter<T> (System.Text.Json) to serialize and deserialize objects »

I started paying attention to gRPC about a year ago. Almost every gRPC advocate and evangelist I came across touted its performance capabilities as a significant »

I've been working with Blazor Client (WASM) a fair amount recently and a couple of days ago someone asked me about how to load configuration from »

Last year I saw a reference to LiteDB on Awesome .NET. It described itself as "An embedded NoSQL database for .NET". That drew my attention. A »

In my previous post .NET Core Configuration Files I discussed a simple and resilient method of accessing configuration data with .NET Core. In this post I'll »

My first exposure to Blazor was prior to it having a name. In late 2017 I watched a recording of Steve Sanderson's NDC Oslo 2017 presentation »

Several months ago I found myself contemplating the creation of yet another HTML client, this time to help in prototyping a larger application concept I was »

I'm primarily a .NET developer but for a year I worked exclusively on a MacBook using Boot Camp to run Windows 10. Like many software companies »

My first look into F# was in 2011 when I read Programming F#. I enjoyed working through that book and I realized that F# had opened »

Every couple of years I settle on the general design for a full-stack application which I then use to explore various technologies and architectural patterns. I »

I'm trying out Ghost for the first time. I've wanted to find an alternative to Blogger for a while now but just hadn't put the effort »

Until the long file name issue is fixed node.js development on a Windows machine is going to continue to suck. That is all. »

I spend time most weekends programming, typically in the evenings over a craft beer at my favorite pub. During these sessions I occasionally perform pressing tasks »

Whether you love your source control system or it drives you completely mad there's no denying it's one of the most important tools you have as »

I've had my Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon for almost exactly a year now so I thought I post a quick follow-up to the original entry I »

I've been playing around with TypeScript for several weeks now and, overall, my early impressions are quite favorable. The typing system and its integration with Visual »

Understand first, I've only been working with Angular in my free time over the last couple weeks. With that said I must admit I'm REALLY impressed! »

I have a Web API project which leverages an SQL database through Entity Framework. Pretty standard Microsoft technology stacks I've been using for years. When using »

While working on the MVC implementation for my FitTrack application I googled "cottage cheese" to cross reference a menu item entry. This is what I got. »

Let me start by stating, emphatically, I love CSLA.NET! I first became aware of this excellent framework in 2008 when my boss dropped Rocky's book »

I think most developers will probably relate with this frustration. I don't know how many times I've gone to add some cool new feature to an »

After almost five years with my previous laptop I was finally given a new one at work. My old HP has been an absolute work horse »

I've never been a fan of JavaScript. Not because of the language itself. Syntactically it's a lot like C# (which I love) and functionally it provides »

I came across something I found sort of interesting a week or two ago. I had an array of integers that I wanted to use in »

No not "that" dream. The dream I've had for several years concerns the future of my personal computer. I envision a time when my "PC" is »

My first experience with a "browser" was Mosaic around 1994 in the Washington State University computer labs. I viewed it as a novel and somewhat intriguing »

I'm at work near the end of a long day. I spent almost the entire day writing documentation. As a developer I understand the absolute necessity »

I've fought it. I've kicked and screamed. I've ranted and raved. But all to no avail. It's over. Silverlight is dead. More's the pity. If only »

This is part 2 of my previous That pesky enum post.  You should read part 1 first.  In part 1 I defined the enum Beers and »

The .NET enum, such a simple concept.  At the most basic level an enum is a collection of key/value pairs with a restricted string key »

I came across something that grabbed my attention the other day.  I was working with a Silverlight application and had bound TextBox controls to two separate »

EOM »

I've been playing around with xaml technologies for several  years now and it's given me the utmost respect for truly good UI designers. In the era »

When I first started developing software professionally I remember occasionally finding older code and thinking "how could someone design something so poorly?" I've been writing software »

This week my job duties shifted significantly.  I've gone from doing primarily hands on development to researching development issues for upcoming projects or current problem processes »

Programming, a good craft beer and some down-tempo music. »

I read an article a while back written by an senior developer at Microsoft in which he advocated that EVERY serious developer should blog.  It was »