An approach to managing bespoke behaviour (to support sustainable delivery).

Or “how not to make a mess of things”🥴

ECMASCript properties to the rescue!

It turns out that not all tests are good

A gentle introduction to functional-programming - the “low-hanging fruit” 🍒🍍🍏

Treat unhandled promise rejections (exceptions in async code) consistently with regular synchronous exceptions in React.

A recipe for capturing the JSON of the particular array item that failed deserialization with System.Text.Json.

GIT101: A novel mental-model of git concepts, the pitfalls of traditional “pulling” and “merging” & how to author a good commit (and why it matters).

Software designs/architecture that lead to testable software - and why that’s desirable.

A recipe for efficient bulk updates in SQL Server using DataTable, staging tables & ANSI merge.

Exploring the Google Chrome debugger protocol by trying to talk to ClearScript running in V8.

Server-side validation that feels like client-side validation to the user w/ ASP.NET & AngularJS

(Ab)using DbCommandInterceptor in EntityFramework for fun and profit.

Data-hashing techiques that can be used to validate database results in the absense of automated (unit) tests when refactoring.

Recipe to integrate the IStartable behaviour of AutoFac with NServiceBus.

I had a few hours spare and so thought I’d have a play with the “G-NAF” data set provided free of charge by the Australian government

Ape E Eye (http://ape-e-eye.herokuapp.com/) is a toy project I built to learn Angular JS. It’s a configurable dashboard of “searches” (REST API queries) which are periodically updated.