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Looking after your mental health as a developer

Jun 12, 20214 min read

It's been over a month now since I last wrote an article here for my blog. I've been struggling a lot with low mood, which has meant that I haven't had the motivation or the energy to produce new content. I have been getting help, which I've found re...

LINQ: Beware of deferred execution

Apr 25, 20216 min read

If you've spent much time around C# and .NET, it's likely that you will have come across LINQ (Language-Integrated Query), which allows you to use a range of powerful querying capabilities directly in the C# language. The example below demonstrate a ...

Handling Dependency Injection in Inherited Classes

Apr 11, 20214 min read

Dependency injection (DI) is a wonderful thing. Simply add your dependency as a parameter to the constructor (most commonly) of your class, register it with you DI container, and away you go - the DI container will manage the rest. Some of the key be...

Best .NET Posts This Week: 14th March 2021

Mar 14, 20213 min read

Here are some of the best .NET, C# and ASP NET posts from this week. This Weeks Articles Pattern Matching In C# By Munib Butt In today’s article we will look at pattern matching in C#. This is a way to match certain members in our objects or the obj...

A Cure for Primitive Obsession

Mar 13, 202112 min read

What is Primitive Obsession? To start with, primitives are the basic data types available in most languages. These include data types such as strings, numbers (int, floats), and booleans. Primitive obsession is a code smell in which primitive data ty...

Best .NET Posts This Week: 7th March 2021

Mar 7, 20213 min read

Here are some of the best .NET, C# and ASP NET posts from this week. This Weeks Articles Five levels of performance tuning for an EF Core query By Jon Smith This is a companion article to the EF Core Community Standup called “Performance tuning an E...