So I wanted to go down the path of creating a shiny new custom enterprise-grade API framework that includes the following features: Easy to navigate documentation and testability via a Swagger interface that can be tested/tried right on the site hosting the API Authenticated access for customers and clients using… Read more »
If your application is living in a production environment then good exception handling is one of the most important things you can do if you want to enable good support for your application (logging is another, but I’ll cover that in another post). A knee-jerk reaction to the question of… Read more »
Sometimes you come across situations where it is inappropriate to use a higher-level ORM utility such as EntityFramework, NHibernate or others. There are many very good situations in which these tools can be used, and this article is *not* an evaluation of them nor does it prescribe situations in which… Read more »
I’ve been in the technology industry for many years and have finally gotten around to creating a blog. I had considered it before but what, you may ask, pushed me over the edge to actually creating one? Not only creating one, but shelling out some cash for my own domain… Read more »
A common challenge with stored procedures is how to pass in multiple rows to a single stored proc call — especially when you know all of the new / updated rows at a single time. Doing so can save on round trips as well as (sometimes) making transaction handling easier…. Read more »
This post is meant to provide some insight regarding where I’m coming from with some of my other thoughts and posts. John Sonmez did a great post regarding “11 Rules All Programmers Should Live By” and that post resonated very well with me. I agree with all of his rules, and… Read more »
Putting a silver color background on your comments is a quick and easy productivity booster for me. It may seem subtle but I’ve found it way easier to visually recognize comments with the silver background than if I just leave it white. I do this both within Visual Studio *and*… Read more »
Abstract Provide a technique for setting up configuration files that can support multiple environments (e.g. staging and production) and allow for central deployment without having to update config files on the fly during deployment. Benefits of the approach described: config files are not touched during deployment developers are forced to… Read more »
