I have been using recruiters for a long time to help me find a new opportunity. For the ones I don't have a relationship with... please stop playing games when sending us an email about a "great opportunity". Almost daily, I receive emails like this: I am recruiting for an exciting contract opportunity with one … Continue reading Dealing with Recruiters Tip #2: Don’t Play Games When Contacting Us
In the second article in this series, I laid out the architecture and design for this cloud solution. Now it’s finally time to get coding! In this article I will discuss how I designed the data layer using Cosmos DB. To keep a separation of concerns, I will talk about the business entities which is … Continue reading Real World Cloud App – From Start to Finish: The Data Layer
For the first time I will speaking at the Philly Code Camp on November 16th - 17th! I'm excited to come to the area to do the sessions and workshop below. I have not been to Philadelphia, PA since I was a little kid. I was born in Delaware and plan to visit family while … Continue reading dotNetDave Rocks the Philly Code Camp
In part 1 of this article, I explained how to implement proper data encapsulation. In part 2 I want to talk about encapsulating business logic. I see this missing in a lot of type design, especially when using an ORM like Entity Framework. It’s the job of the architect and coder of that type to … Continue reading Proper Type Encapsulation – Part 2
I have stared along with my good friend Woody Pewitt a new podcast called the Confessions of Angry Programmers podcast. I hope you will check it out and send us any feedback. https://coappodcast.wordpress.com/2018/09/29/episode-0/
In all my books and conference sessions I talk about the proper way to test if a string is valid. Microsoft .NET has been around almost two decades and I still see code like this: if (testValue.Trim() == "") This code is even wrong since it's not checking for null. A better way would be like this: … Continue reading Performance Tip: Checking For Empty String
In this article I want to outline the overall architecture for the services and apps. The first part of this article will document the feature request, then the remainder will be about the architecture and the design.
