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
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
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