magic, How do you practice your performance? Someone recently asked me that, as a software developer and not a professional magician, how do I practice my performances? This is my answer turned into a blog post.I practice my performances
programming "Pair documenting" might produce higher quality documentation. Over the past two days I spent about 8 hours writing documentation. Was the documentation worth it? Will anyone ever read it? If they do, will it help? When is documentation done? Have
project-management, focus, goal-setting Current Side Projects as of January 2019 It's hard to complete side projects - as we progress, boredom becomes harder to overcome. Dr. Randy Paterson calls this The Project Resistance Curve. The image at the top of this blog post
ghost Upgrade from Azure Ghost 0.x.x to Ghost 2.x.x OverviewI have been running Ghost 0.x in an Azure App Service with Windows Server. Now I am wanting to upgrade to Ghost 2.0 (using the Deploy to Azure from here.)The
javascript this in functions, arrow functions, class methods, and class arrow function properties Functions & Class Methods both bind this when/how/where they are called. it is sometimes called dynamic binding Arrow Function & Arrow Function Class Properties both bind this when/how/where they
markdown Converting Markdown to HTML and/or ODT format These commands from the command line convert from markdown to HTML and then HTML to ODT. pandoc .\some-file.md -f markdown -t html -s -o .\some-file.html pandoc .\some-file.html -f html -t
typescript What does [keyof T] do at the end of a type = {} declaration? type Foo<T> = { // pretend we have a type definition for Q here }[keyof T]; What does the [keyof T] do at the end there? Short Answer When placed at the end
software-dev What if the team makes a bad decision despite advice to the contrary? On the one hand, we need to defer to the team. On the other hand, we have a professional responsibility. Importantly, there is now a conflict. Doing well in conflict means being prepared
powershell PowerShell One-Liner: insert a space between each capital letter; convert PascalCase to Pascal Case PS> ('FooBar' -creplace '([A-Z])', ' $1').Trim() Foo Bar
High level notes on @font-face in CSS. It's okay to use multiple @font-face rules in a site to define multiple custom fonts. @font-face { font-family: MyHelvetica; src: local("Helvetica Neue Bold"), local("HelveticaNeue-Bold"), url(MgOpenModernaBold.ttf); font-weight:
TypeScript class vs interface vs type This is a brain dump. It is in no way authoritative. I want multiple objects... ...to have the same shape use a type ...and to support inheritance use an interface ...and to have
typescript Data Transfer Object (Dto) Type Wrapper in TypeScript. The Dto wrapper turns a class type into a data transfer object type by removing all the methods from the type definition, thereby creating a type that has only data properties. It further
git PowerShell and Git to Capitalize all the Files in a Directory on Windows Windows is a case-folding operating system, which means that changing the case of a file name is non-trivial. The following uses PowerShell and Git to capitalize all the files names in a directory.
typescript Error handling with an Either type in TypeScript. type Result<T> = T | Error; const someFunc = (isError: boolean): Result<string> => { if (isError) { return new Error(); } return 'Success!'; }; const otherFunc = (isError: boolean): Result<number> =>
typescript TypeScript constructor parameters with public, private, and protected A class constructor can automatically create and initialize class properties by using parameter property declarations. public class Foo { constructor(public bar: string, private baz: number, protected qux: boolean) {} } That is the equivalent of
javascript Simple Fetch API Example let request = new Request('https://localhost:5001/api/values'); fetch(request) .then((response) => response.json()) .then((json) => console.log(json)); https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API
git Finding (searching for) things with Git Search file name git ls-files '<pathspec>' git log '<pathspec>' git rev-list --all -- '<pathspec>' Search file content git log -S '&
software-development Architecting Large Scale Software Systems Image by janeb13 at https://pixabay.com/en/europa-sailboat-fs-senator-brockes-1185800/ These are notes on architecting large scale systems. (Is architecting even a word?) The notes came out of a series of recent conversations with
investing MSCI World Index MSCI is Morgan Stanley Capital International. The MSCI World Index is a global equity index they publish. https://www.msci.com/world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCI
visual-studio Visual Studio ReSharper Performance for Large Solutions What Really Worked Resharper Disable ReSharper code analysis: ReSharper | Options | Code Inspection | Settings | Enable code analysis | Uncheck Then analyze individual files on demand with Ctrl+Shift+Alt+A aka ReSharper_InspectThis. Visual Studio
git Git: List the files you have worked on in the last week git log --no-merges --author=shaun --name-only --pretty=format:"" --since="1 week ago" -- *.cs | sort -u
c# ReSharper: Exclude all C# projects from analysis We have a project with 72 files. ReSharper takes too many minutes to load. Exclude all the projects! Run this PowerShell script. Paste its output into your *.DotSettings or *.DotSettings.User file. dir
azure Deploying a Custom Read the Docs Install to an Azure App Service DRAFT https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/custom_installs/index.html Install Python 2.7x on Windows https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2715/ C:/Python27 Install Python 2.7x on Linux https:
asp.net-core TagHelper Structure This is some rendered output in the browser. In HTML that looks like this. <p>PreElement.SetHtmlContent(string) <ul class="small text-primary"> <li>PreContent.SetHtmlContent(
dotnet-core dotnet watch run usage examples Version 2.1.3 of the .NET Core SDK includes the file watcher. Here is how to use it from the command line... with the --project option: // right dotnet watch --project path\to\
