The project we're working on needs the ability for a user to define a polygon on a map, like this: Then, we need to save that defined polygon as a SQL Geography [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc280766.aspx] type in our database, which we access using Entity Framework.
What makes a quality programmer? In a previous post I listed out five "personas" that I believe make an effective programmer: coder, investigator, theorist, logician, communicator [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/five-personas-of-an-effective-programmer/]. I still believe that each of these traits are essential to being an effective developer, but there's one trait
Regular expressions [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression] are quite possibly the least enjoyable thing about programming, mostly because I can't read them they're terrible. They're supposed to be used to search for and match within text, but the more often I encounter them, the more often I lament
I'm doing some heavy refactoring on a project that I've recently joined but that has been underway for months. The code is a mishmash of different styles [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/big-ball-of-mud-anti-pattern-primers/] and an uncertain architecture, so my task up to this point has been to make it more consistent,
One of the new features from ASP.NET Core 1.0 [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNET5IsDeadIntroducingASPNETCore10AndNETCore10.aspx] is the idea of Middleware [https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/fundamentals/middleware.html]. Middleware are components of an application that examine the requests responses coming in to and going out from