Announcing the 6th edition of my coding standards book for Microsoft .NET! Newly updated for .NET Core 3.1 and .NET Framework 4.8. This book is a compilation of common Microsoft .NET coding standards in use today. In the past, for languages like Visual Basic, Microsoft published coding standards in a single document that developers could … Continue reading New Book Release! Rock Your Code: Coding Standards for Microsoft .NET
Help Support The Voice Of Slum In India
In April of 2019, while in India to speak at the C# Corner Conference, I along with two other speakers visited the Voice of Slum NGO in Delhi. We meet the two founders Chandni Khan and Dev Pratap Singh and they told us the story of how this organization was started. They are truly inspirational … Continue reading Help Support The Voice Of Slum In India
Progressive Retry for Network Calls
In today's mobile world, many calls across the internet or network could fail for many reasons. Some of the reasons could be the service is busy, the network is slow and many more. For these types of calls, it’s advisable to retry the call if there is an error. The current code base I am … Continue reading Progressive Retry for Network Calls
dotNetDave Says… Coding Should Be The Least Part of Your Job
There is more to writing a great app than just sitting down and coding. If you are banging out code, most of the day, you are doing it wrong. Coding should be the least (minor) part of being a great software engineer. Here are just a few of the other tasks that should be done … Continue reading dotNetDave Says… Coding Should Be The Least Part of Your Job
The Done Kind Of Done with Nuri Halperin
Join us for Episode 3 of The Confessions of Angry Programmers podcast! In this episode David and Woody talk about: Dogfooding: David revisits the Netflix app on Amazon Fire TV. WTF Were They Thinking?: David discusses backward software practices. Guest We are joined by our guest Nuri Halperin. Nuri discusses the "The Done Kind Of … Continue reading The Done Kind Of Done with Nuri Halperin
AI’s Ethical Dilemma with Adnan Masood
Join us for Episode 8 of The Confessions of Angry Programmers podcast! In this episode David and Woody talk about: Dogfooding: Woody talks about debugging AWS LAMBDA’s. WTF Were They Thinking?: David discusses sites like Sticker Mule testing text messages on unsuspecting live users. Guest We are joined by our guest Adnan Masood. Adnan discusses … Continue reading AI’s Ethical Dilemma with Adnan Masood
dotNetDave Rocks NDC { Porto } 2020
For the first time, the dotNetDave No Apologies World Tour will land in Porto, Portugal for the NDC {Porto} conference on April 21-24! I'm very excited to speak in Portugal for the first time so I can rock the geeks there! I will be presenting the session below. Röck Yoür Cöde: Code & App Performance … Continue reading dotNetDave Rocks NDC { Porto } 2020
How To Tell Your Open Source Projects Are Done with Jeff Fritz
Join us for Episode 5 of The Confessions of Angry Programmers podcast! In this episode David and Woody talk about: Dogfooding: David talks about his frustration logging into Microsoft Teams. WTF Were They Thinking?: Woody discusses public computer displays showing sensitive information in an error! Guest We are joined by our guest Jeff Fritz from … Continue reading How To Tell Your Open Source Projects Are Done with Jeff Fritz
Speaking: What I Expect When Speaking at a Conference (Part 1)
In October 2019, while traveling to speak at a conference in Arizona (USA), I saw the tweet below. Since this is my 26th year speaking at conferences, I have been thinking about writing an article on what I expect when I speak at a conference… so here it is! I will state upfront, that what … Continue reading Speaking: What I Expect When Speaking at a Conference (Part 1)
