Steve Fenton is a programmer, (hands-on) architect, and theory-y/human-centric manager mostly working around the .NET space. He enjoys creating software that makes a difference to people’s lives; such as mail transfer agents with zero-day threat detection or clinical decision support engines. Steve has been active in the whole DevOps life-cycle and enjoys coaching people on agile and lean methods (and the theories behind them). He also enjoys finding fractal principles; such as those found in monitoring and alerting, or in queuing theory.
Books by Steve Fenton
A Note From Steve
This is my personal journal where I store ideas, notes, and information to supplement my biological abilities. My interests are programming, psychology, philosophy and critical thinking, and the Oxford Comma. The journal largely covers the order software progressio and the families modum translitterandi, processus, and populus. I am also secretly S. M. Fenton the author of The Vanishing Room.
Recent Journals
You can review my full archive of journals, but the most recent entries are listed below.
- Fixing CSS object-fit for Internet Explorer Posted in: Programming - A common problem with images, especially if they are user-generated, is that they don't have the correct aspect ratio for…
- HTML Loading Attribute for Lazy Loading Images and Iframes Posted in: Programming - If you have been writing websites or web apps for any length of time, you will almost certainly have implemented…
- Simplify Strings for Comparison by Removing Special Characters and Diacritic Marks Posted in: Programming - I was working on a search system that needed to simplify the strings for comparison. It needed to compare the…
- Code Responsibly: Paying Attention to the Humans You Impact Posted in: Programming - One of the consitent truths I have found in every development team I have worked with is that there is…
- Expecting One Out Of Two Members in TypeScript Types Posted in: Programming - We're going to use a simple restaurant set-menu example to explore TypeScript types. By the end of this thought-process, we're…
- Find All Images on a Page With JavaScript Posted in: Programming - One of the most common issues I see in content-managed websites is the presence of a fully-qualified image address that…
- Prevent AJAX Requests Making Sessions Infinite in ASP.NET MVC Posted in: Programming - If you are terminating inactive sessions in your ASP.NET MVC application and you add an AJAX polling call, the chances…
- The DITE Cycle: Data Insight Theory Experiment Posted in: Process - This is not my idea, though I've named it the DITE cycle in opposition to other available alternatives. There are…
- Html.RenderAction Equivalent in .NET Core MVC Posted in: Programming - If you were a fan of ASP.NET MVC Widgets using Html.RenderAction, you might be a bit stunned that RenderAction is…
- Tech is Only as Bad as the Non-Tech Analog Posted in: Opinion - I had an interesting discussion with a very smart woman I know about tech. In particular, we talked about whether…