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Diary of a Death March: Bianca's Story

September 1st Team meeting today. Management is pushing us hard to seal the deal with this customer we're meeting on the 4th. So, obviously, we're going to make that deal. The company needs it, so it's my job to make it happen. We need a win. September 4th Meeting with

Setting Up Dependency Injection in Web API with StructureMap

Up until recently I hadn't really used any Dependency Injection (DI) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection] frameworks in my ASP.NET projects, largely due to them being rather intimidating to set up the first time. I mean, I barely grasp the concept of DI, so the thought of

Ancient ORACLE, Modern IIS, and a Failure to RTFM

My coworkers Rajit and Dave [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/simpler-is-subjective-how-bad-assumptions-about-architecture-kicked-my-ass/] and I have been spending an inordinate amount of time over the last few days looking for a really annoying error in one of our apps. The exception message reads like this: > Could not load file or assembly 'Oracle.DataAccess'

Learn or Die: Warding Off My Coding Career's Eventual Obsolescence

I often give technical demos at my work about various topics, and the most recent one was an introduction to ASP.NET Core 1.0 that spawned a lot of blog posts [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/tag/asp-net-core/]. Overall, this class was well-received (at least I believe so, given that

Custom Validation in ASP.NET Web API with FluentValidation

Validation is one of the key components in any web app. After all, we should never trust any input to our applications, ever [http://stackoverflow.com/a/2794089/106356]. Up until now, my group has been building MVC-based web apps, in those apps we've been content to use built-in or

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