A 10-Step Guide To Making Your Best Technical Talk Yet

Anyone can create a technical talk. Yes, even you. Here's the 10-step process I use to make my technical talks the best they can possibly be.

What's This and Can I Delete It? Examining A Default ASP.NET MVC Project

I have a two-step process that I utilize whenever I have to dive into a code project that I didn't create. For each file, folder, NuGet package, etc. I examine the item in question and ask myself the following questions: 1. What is this? 2. Can I delete it? See,

The Gamer Couple: Rules for Playing Single-Player Games Together

Long time readers of my blog will have noticed that I'm a total Nintendo fanboy [https://exceptionnotfound.net/how-my-5-year-old-taught-me-the-value-of-pair-programming/]. I've owned all of their consoles from the SNES onward, including the Nintendo 64, Gamecube, Wii, Wii U, and now the Switch. I can still remember the joy of Super Mario

Technical Debt and the Rewrite-In-Place

My group just finished up a massive year-and-a-half-long rewrite of a major project. I've blogged about events during this project several times before, from a stupid bug and a plea for help [https://www.exceptionnotfound.net/a-stupid-bug-and-a-plea-for-help/] to reminding my boss that junior developers are awesome [https://www.exceptionnotfound.net/

All Code Is Disposable, Just As It Should Be

My recent post I Am a 9 to 5 Developer (And So Can You!) [https://exceptionnotfound.net/i-am-a-9-to-5-developer-and-so-can-you/] is getting WAY more traffic than I expected, and I am both humbled and excited that so many people in our profession seem to feel the same way that I do: namely,