Writing Documentation Sucks. Do It Anyway.

It is the elephant in the room, the monster in the corner, the darkness waiting to claim your job. It sneaks up on you quietly, stealthily, like a lion waiting to pounce. It is endless, varied, impossible to predict and harder to defend against. Everyone has encountered it, battled it,

Using HTTP Methods (GET, POST, PUT, etc.) in Web API

My group has been studying ASP.NET Web API for a major project we're working on, and part of learning about this tech stack is studying how HTTP works, which has been a nice refresher for us. A couple of my teammates asked me to clarify the HTTP Methods (e.

An Open Letter To Women And Minorities In Technology

Source: National Science Foundation's report on Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering [http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2015/nsf15311/start.cfm] I am a Caucasian, hetero, cisgender [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender], young male. Society has determined, without my consent, that I am the "normal"

Const vs Static vs Readonly in C#

How is Const different from Static? What does Readonly mean? Let's find out!

Integers vs GUIDs - The Great Primary Key Debate

One of the first steps in creating any database table is deciding what kind of data will uniquely identify a given row in said table; we call this a primary key [http://databases.about.com/cs/administration/g/primarykey.htm]. In modern databases, if we want to create a unique