• On Exception Handling

    calendar May 29, 2015 · 10 min read · C# .NET Development  ·
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    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 “how do I do good exception …


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  • Guiding Principles for Programmers

    calendar Mar 20, 2015 · 10 min read · Development  ·
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    Having some guiding principles (rules, if you will) that you follow when performing tasks can help you be more effective when doing those tasks. Here are some of the prgramming rules I follow. The SOLID principles are worth knowing as well.

    1. Know and leverage your toolset Be aware of the framework(s) that you are …


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  • Put a Silver Background on Your Comments

    calendar Mar 11, 2015 · 1 min read · Development  ·
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    Put a Silver Background on Your Comments

    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 SQL Server Management Studio for SQL …


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