Within the span of an hour, it had all gone to hell. The first deployment went rather smoothly. It was a fix to an existing web service, and went out with no problems, or so we thought. Within ten minutes of the deployment, the users started complaining of a minor
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Elena The flickering streetlamp fought valiantly, but in the end Elena was victorious once again. The green mantis/cricket hybrid that had been resisting her invocations finally gave up the ghost, melting into the virtual ground before materializing as a tiny pixelated icon in the upper-right corner of her phone's
I use Dependency Injection (DI) [https://exceptionnotfound.net/tag/dependency-injection/] quite a bit in my ASP.NET projects, particularly in Web API and MVC web applications. Recently, I had a need to implement a caching layer in one of my MVC apps, and such a layer would be best used
I refuse to work overtime. In the five years I've been at my current company, I've worked overtime exactly once, and that was because our server was literally on fire. Overtime is just not worth it to me. I'm a salaried employee. A rather well-paid salaried employee, at least compared