Last Friday in Ann Arbor, Michigan, there were two events that took place for Tech. The Tech Talk was hosted at the Michigan Theater, and it consisted of a number of speakers giving 6 minute talks mostly focused on entrepreneurship with a tech focus. I found most of the talks
Trying to explain to non-programmers what it is like to write code is really difficult. When I am struggling with a problem, I often describe it as having writers' block, but that really isn't a good description. Often I am doing a lot of writing, it
No, this post isn't about weird thoughts in the deep dark crevices of your mind. When I talk about questionable thinking, I am referring to the thought process where you work out questions when being presented information. This is something I really need to work on because I
If you haven't read Part 1 of this post, here is a link: Part 1 I was really stuck on this issue, and I posted the previous section on my blog as well as a post on stack overflow, but in the end, I came up with a
I call this part 1 because I haven't figured it all out yet, so if you have a solution to how I can use the Authorize Attribute in a controller, please let me know in the comments. EDIT See part 2 for the solution I came up with:
A couple of things that really interested me from Microsoft's Build conference this year was Intellicode and Live Share. Microsoft has had intellisence as part of Visual Studio, but Intellicode takes it to a whole new level by using AI to suggest full code implementations instead of just
It is often hard to describe to people that I do web application development and not web site design. I have very little in the way of artistic talent, so I am not very good at creating a snazzy look and feel. I am usually good enough at the front
As is the way with things in life, last week I was working on a project where I wanted to seed data in EF Core 2.0. Unfortunately there was no method built in to seed data, so I rolled my own, and got it working. This week EF Core
When I logged into my GitHub account this morning, I saw the banner across the top that said Microsoft was buying GitHub. I am not really sure how I feel about that. My first response was kind of negative, but I think that was really based more on thinking from
One of the things I have had to admit to myself as I have gotten older is that my memory isn't what it once was. One of the biggest problems I run into is thinking that I have something set in my memory only to find out a
I have been reading a book recently called "The Lean Startup". When I first started reading it, I realized they were taking Test Driven Development processes and applying them at a higher level to actual product development. The book also described using agile approaches to figuring out what
For most of my career I have been in circles where people would debate a Mac vs Windows PC. There were the years where Apple had dropped so far in market share that it seemed like the debate was over, but then Jobs returned and the debate started all over