For the first time, the dotNetDave Rock The World Tour is hitting North Carolina at the Raleigh .NET Conf Local on October 28th, 2017. I'm excited to give my new session below. Rock Your .NET Core Best Practices In this sessions, you will learn how to apply .NET Framework best practices to .NET Core 2.0. [...]
For the first time, I will be speaking at the Triangle .NET User Group in Morrisville, NC on October 27th at 6pm. If you live in the area, I hope to see you there. It's going to be a fun session. Rock Your Code Knowledge - The Game How well do you know coding practices [...]
I want to see some of the geek graphic arts talents to design a new Rock The World tour t-shirt for 2018. I will wear the winning design at every event I speak at in 2018, including India! Here is the info on the contest. The Winner Will Receive... 2018 Rage for Code t-shirt. Your [...]
I've just released by brand new conference session "Rock Your Development With A Real World Example" on video-on-demand. This video is for you if you want to see how I implemented proper architecture in Microsoft Azure. To see this session, live and in person click here to check out my conference schedule. Rock Your Development [...]
I've just released a brand new version of my Rock Your Technical Interview conference session on video-on-demand. It's packed full of new tips for 2017! To see this session, live and in person click here to check out my conference schedule. Röck Yoür Technical Interview from David McCarter on Vimeo. Save 50% if you purchase [...]
While working on the dotNetTips Dev Cleaner utility, I wanted to make the deletion of files even faster. While writing this utility I found and worked on speed issues, almost all relating to updating the user interface. So to decouple the deleting from the UI I decided to add a new feature to the dotNetTips.Utility [...]
For many years when speaking at conferences, I have shared my workflow on what I do before I submit code changes to source control. This article will explain it more in detail. I share this workflow because it makes sure that I rarely get bug tickets from quality assurance and hopefully it will for you [...]
Encapsulation is the first pillar of Object Oriented Programming (OOP), yet most code that I see does not implement encapsulation correctly or not all. Like I say in many of my conference sessions "If you do not implement encapsulation, you aren't doing OOP!" I also say "Bad data in, bad data out!". Several years ago, [...]
On October 7th and 8th of this year, I will be rocking the geeks at the Silicon Valley Code Camp again! This is my favorite Code Camp to go to each year. If you haven't been, you need to experience it at least once. I will be doing the session below. I hope to see [...]
When developing software, what does the company you work for usually say are the priorities? Well most will say speed to market for the lowest cost possible and meet the consumer needs. Most of this article will discuss the first two reason even though it also affects the last one too. So, my question to [...]
