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Why Aren't You Blogging Yet? Tips for Getting Started

I've been writing this blog for about a year and a half now, and I firmly believe that every software professional should write a blog. It's an invaluable tool for connecting with other professionals, for getting your ideas out there, for making bad jokes making good jokes. I've told this

Getting All Valid Enum Values in ASP.NET Web API

One of the commenters on my blog posed an interesting question on my article about serializing enumerations in Web API [https://www.exceptionnotfound.net/serializing-enumerations-in-asp-net-web-api/] : He wanted to know how someone who is querying a Web API might know what possible values a given enumeration has. I didn't answer that

Being a Better Lead Developer

I've mentioned before that I'm what my company calls a "lead" developer, which means I'm in charge of projects, not people [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/are-programmers-afraid-of-losing-control-over-their-code/] . It is my responsibility to assign work, conduct code reviews, divvy up tasks, etc. It may sound like this position means doing a lot

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