The New Guy Is A Better Coder Than Me, And That's Wonderful

There's this new guy on our team. He's really smart. Probably smarter than me. Should I be worried about him trying to take my job?

The Best (Non-Programming) Podcasts for Developers

I've got a relatively long commute to work each morning, and listening to the radio just isn't fun for me anymore. Music stations seem to play the same songs over and over again and sports radio is full of endless drivel and loudmouth know-nothings. I don't have enough time in

A Five-Step Process for Planning a Rewrite of a Legacy Project

My team and I recently finished a long-gestating project which involved taking a ten-year-old codebase and rewriting it onto a new stack. Said rewrite took the better part of a year, but it's running in production right now and doesn't appear to have too many pervasive, evil bugs. People are

Middleware - ASP.NET Core Demystified

For the next installment in our ASP.NET Core Demystified [https://www.exceptionnotfound.net/tag/asp-net-core-demystified/] series, we will discuss of feature of ASP.NET Core that doesn't really have an equivalent feature in ASP.NET Framework: Middleware. What Are Middleware? Middleware are classes in ASP.NET Core which form

The Read-Aloud Corner: Coraline

Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.