Hello there, my fellow coders! Today, I want to talk to you about the Factory Design Pattern in C#. This is one of the original Gang of Four Design patterns. If you don’t know what those are, go look them up, right now! Now, I know what you’re thinking, “A…

Back at it When we last saw our intrepid (actually more like frustrated) heroes (See part 1 here) they were dealing with the pain of branching, and introduced the concept of feature flags as a way to reduce the pain. Well, lucky you! Microsoft decided to give you a sweet little API to…

What the hell is the problem? Let’s face it. If left to their own devices, developers will step on each other’s toes. You spend hours writing some really elegant code, check it in, and then some schmuck merges your branch with his branch, and ends up wiping out all your crap. Or what about when we’ve…

Where we left off In our last installment, we got a lot of the preliminary bullshit out of the way. We built a basic, essentially useless component. In this part, we will build a slightly less useless version of a component to capture a person’s personal information (name, address, etc). Let’s jump right in…

When dating or in a relationship I think of “nice” as a four letter word. I strive to be kind. Compassionate. Accepting. Loving. Altruistic. But never nice. Why? Because to me nice guys are not nice out of sincerity. Being “nice” is about quid pro quo. …

To put it bluntly, JavaScript is Bullshit! Yes, its unavoidable so I use it. But I hate it like a bad rash. Its clunky, lacks elegance and all around just sucks. So I was very excited to hear about Blazor. …

This is the first in a multi-part series on getting started with GraphQL in .net core. Just the tiniest bit of preliminary bullshit If you’ve written any code for the web any time in the recent past, you’ve had to deal with Rest APIs. …

Tell me if you’ve had this happen to you. You have a team of great developers ready to do great work. You are all agile enthusiasts and want to produce increments of reusable software in quick succession of high quality. Your releases are planned. The product owner has weighed in…

When digging in to AI topics like reinforcement learning, the topic of dynamic programming keeps popping up. Examining formal definitions of dynamic programming yields a whole bunch of overly complex bullshit. The reality is, the concept is really simple. Dynamic programming is all about avoiding repetitively solving the same problem…