On the 2nd of September 2017, in Middletown USA, Patrick Ponce achieved the world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube by twisting that damn thing into the correct position in 4.69 seconds. He got a certificate for it from Guinness World Records Limited. Rafael Solano commented on this saying: This guy is a great inspiration […]
This is a short article to describe how I migrated a bunch of existing verbose tests to ApprovalTests. All of the examples in this article are based on my Shameless Green in C# library, which will be familiar to reader’s of 99 Bottles of OOP. Here are some quick links you might want once you […]
If you are a curly-braces programmer of a certain vintage, you will have done this a great deal in the past. for (let i = 0; i < shoes.length; i++) { const shoe = shoes[i]; // Your actual code here } This was preferable to referencing the janky shoes[i] within the loop, when “shoe” is […]
This article simply promotes the use of the statement if (x == null) when you want to check if a value is either null or undefined. I keep on having to explain this point, because catching null or undefined without side effects is important. If we break the statement down, there is a very important […]
It is really hard to work out the value of experience in programming. To do this effectively, you’d need to study a reasonable number of people over a reasonable time period. You’d use the data to see whether there was a demonstrable benefit to experience. This is what I did over a 12 month period. […]
I had an existing .NET Framework project, from which I wanted to reference a .NET Standard 2.0 NuGet package. Due to the project having some history, I needed to make a few changes to get it building via a hosted build agent. Here is a run down of all the changes – if your project […]
If you are using Datadog, you know you can log to Datadog using the Windows event log, or by calling the DogStatsD interface on your local agent. When you are running in a non-machine context, such as an Azure App Service, it is likely you won’t be running an agent; so how do you log […]
I spent something like $50 on 99 Bottles of OOP when it came out. That could have bought me 60 Mars Bars, or even 0.005 Bitcoins! But I have been telling people to buy this book as it is an investment in their career. I’m going to share some of that value here, but to […]
This is a quick note with an updated version on how to exclude files from the Visual Studio Code file explorer. I originally wrote about this in 2015 before the UI was as polished as it is now. I have also found I get asked about this a great deal due to conflicting information I […]
TypeScript is optionally statically typed, which means you can still write dynamically typed expressions within your TypeScript programs. If you drop into a block of dynamic code, and then want to come back out into statically typed code – you’ll need to introduce the types, and are responsible for the correctness of the type you […]
