debugging
In a recent blog post, Mark Evanier included this quote from Maurice Wilkes, probably taken from his memoir: By June 1949, people had begun to realize that it was not […]
programming
Playing with Postman
Postman is a tool that I’ve been meaning to learn for years. I’m not sure when I first heard of it, but I’m pretty sure it was back when it […]
Online Learning Resources
I have a bunch of topics I’ve been meaning to blog about this year, and just haven’t had the time to get to too many of them. A lot of […]
New Year’s Day 2021
I’ve been writing big New Year’s Day posts on this blog every year for the last several years. I might as well do one this year too. Obviously, last year […]
the rest of the year
I still seem to be dealing with a lingering cold that I picked up last weekend. So this weekend has been pretty quiet. I finished reading The Outsiders, finished watching […]
Stuck In The Mud With SPFx
I’ve been trying to make some progress with SharePoint Framework (SPFx) lately, but I keep getting stuck in the mud, so to speak. I started working on learning SPFx some […]
performance tuning surprises
Here’s another blog post about the program I’m currently working on at my job. This is the same program I blogged about yesterday and a couple of weeks ago. Today, […]
Trying to debug a .NET Core app as a different user
I’m working on a .NET Core console app at work that, on one level, is pretty simple. It’s just calling a couple of web services, getting results back, combining/filtering them, […]
Calling a SOAP WCF web service from .NET Core
I had a problem at work today that I’d previously solved, almost exactly a year ago. The project I was working on then got almost completely rewritten, so the current […]
PowerShell profiles and prompts and other command-line stuff
I’ve been spending some time at work this week rearranging some stuff between my two development VMs, and I hit on a few items that I thought might be worth […]