How MS Paint Saved Me... From a Tedious Argument

Devs: learn to Use Paint! It'll save you a TON of time arguing with words when you really just needed to argue with pictures!

The Most Powerful Question: 4 Rules to Help Developers Ask "Why?"

The new guy is putting me on the defensive. And I couldn't be happier about it. Here's some rules to help foster a more inclusive environment on your team, on where developers of all skills feel comfortable asking those powerful question: "why?"

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.

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

Two Ways to Do Async/Await in ASP.NET Wrong (and How to Fix Them)

My team is in the process of refactoring a large application that we want to deploy to our production environment soon. I've just been assigned as lead developer to this project, since the prior lead got another job in a different state, and I've been digging through the code to