Happy New Year?
In 2020 I learned the meaning of the English expression Busman’s Holiday, and it generally applies to software developers that write code on their free time, but especially so during a pandemic with abundant remote worki…
2021
Async Enumerable in C# / .NET 6
In recent times Microsoft have begun to performance test their web platforms. Whilst previous generations of their .NET framework and ASP.NET web platform had prioritised ease of development over performance quite dramat…
Best is the enemy – stick with good
Working life, like any series of events, can be compared to other stories, such as those in cinema. Is your workday like Avengers Endgame when all your coworkers show up out of thin air and swarm to solve a difficult pro…
The Power of Sample Code
In the culture wars between “Object Oriented Programming” and Functional Programming, you will find proponents of OOP that argue that we are doing fine – why should we change? and proponents of FP that lists a litany of …
Automation and security
There is a recent spate of sophisticated attacks on software delivery mechanisms where cyber criminals have had massive success in breaching one organisation to get automatic access to hundreds of thousands of other orga…
The Powershell and the Glory
In which I add a custom prompt by making a hack in the PowerShell profile.…
You can have nice things
I have come across a few things that are legitimately pleasant to use, so I thought I should collate them here to aid my aging memory. Dear reader, I am not attempting to copy Scott Hanselman’s tools listhttps://www.hans…
A cloud strategy
I’m going to rehash some learnings that I have made over the last decade and a bit of doing cloud in one way or another. I have recently read thought leadershttps://twitter.com/QuinnyPig report similar things – only bett…
Enterprise IT, a tragedy?
In the beginning of time, Grace Hopper inventedhttp://www.women-inventors.com/Dr-Grace-Murray-Hopper.asp:~:text=She%20became%20Director%20of%20Automatic,friendly%20business%20computer%20software%20program business softwa…
SQL Server and cloud
You would have one database connection string, and that would be it. “The Database” would live in the darkest corner of the office and you would try not to interact with the physical machine that hosted the relational da…
Why is everybody waterfalling “Agile”?
Just like that rebrand cycle years ago when RUP consultants transitioned over to scrum masters through staged re-titling on LinkedIn and liberal use of search / replace in their CV, scaled agile frameworks and certified …
Auto-login after signup
If you have a website that uses Open ID Connect for login, you may want to allow the user to be logged in directly after having validated their e-mail address and having created their password.…
WSL 2 in anger
I have previously written about the Windows Subsystem for Linux. As a recap, it comes in two flavours- one built on the concept of pico processes, marshalling the Linux ABI into Win32 API calls WSL1 and an actual Linux k…