I'm often asked this question: "hey, you're a Linux guy right? What Linux should I use? I have this friend who recommends \\\\\ and I want to know what…

You may have heard the term "code smells" lately, it seems its being talked about frequently again. In this short post I'll explain what they are, and a…

All the theory, calculations, and estimations in the world aren’t going to tell you how your website will truly perform under a load. If you’re deploying…

Goal: Create a unit test for a EF repository query. As we all know unit tests are infrastructure agnostic and therefore have no kowledge of for example…

You can configure.NET Core to automatically push your nuget package to the package server of your choice by adding a Target to your project file.

Having played around with the GKE and MiniKube "one stop" clusters, I wanted to build a multi-node K8 cluster from a bunch of CentOS VMs. The experience…

I rarely think of technology as a problem, as most of the time people or processes are usually the root of organizational concerns. Many times will…

Microsoft made their new Azure App Service Tools extension available today in the Visual Studio Marketplace. I had the opportunity to preview this…

It's been quite some time since I've cracked open Visual Studio to create an extension freebie for all my fellow engineers. If you're keeping up with the…

The TDLR; on easily managing .NET concurrent asynchronous threads Ever had the requirement for your code to perform some series of background actions, say…

Ever wanted to write a voice activated system on an IoT device to keep track of your “todo list”, hear your commands being played back, and have the…

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TensorFlow https://www.tensorflow.org/ is an open source software library for Machine Learning across a range of tasks, developed by Google. It is…

Pardon the interruption of the regular MonoGame blog series, but this is important. There’s a new version of MonoGame now available!!

So I gave a talk at the Edmonton.NET User Group on an introduction to automated testing. And of course in this introduction I gave a list of reasons why…

If you are working with PowerShell, you may want to start running certain scripts in parallel for improved performance. While doing some research on the…

So I was limited to a specific version of NUnit for various reasons, and needed to start being able to run ‘core’ tests, so I migrated to XUnit. Generally…

Business has many facets that distinguish one from the other. Even so, the business models vary a lot more from one sort of a business infrastructure to…

It would not be surprising to many if one could say that Microsoft has been one leader with a monopoly in the Software industry. First, it was the…

Look into the history books, any business that survived the test of time and also thrived maximized the potential of the time or age in which they were…