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Shipping Side Projects Become More Challenging As We Get Better
- General Programming
- Side Project
I remember when I was naive, young programmer, a side project would go something like this – I would set myself a goal to get a login and register screen that, as you guess, allowed a user to log in and register. This would take me about a day to do, maybe less. These were the days when the goal wasn’t for later use, because more likely than not, I won’t have to keep maintaining the code that I’ve written for longer than a few weeks at most, if at all.
Read more... 22nd February 2018
We’re No Savant
- General Programming
This year, I’ve decided to keep track of my thoughts, learnings and progress a bit more – I’ve decided to take note taking a bit more seriously. I feel that we lose a lot of knowledge over time, maybe not the big picture, but we definitely forget the important finer details.
Read more... 10th January 2018
Pragmatic Programmers – Controversial Opinions
- General Programming
Quite some time ago, I’ve come across a question in stackoverflow by Jon Skeet.
What’s your most controversial programming opinion?
Jon Skeet
As Developer’s, there comes a point in our life where we start questioning a bit more, and you realise – these things that these guides and principles that we’ve been taught doesn’t quite work for our problems – this is an awesome moment, this is the moment that you have become more pragmatic with your approach, you’ve formed your own opinions based on your experience, and you know that it works.
Read more... 30th September 2017
ASP.NET Core Action Filters, Exception Filters and Dependency Injection
There are times when we want to be able to consistently add a behaviour across our ASP.NET Core app that doesn’t quite belong in application logic – a classic example is timing how long a request takes. This is where Filters come in (or Middleware, but that’s for another post).
Read more... 6th September 2017

Shipping Side Projects Become More Challenging As We Get Better

We’re No Savant

Pragmatic Programmers – Controversial Opinions

ASP.NET Core Action Filters, Exception Filters and Dependency Injection