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When you’re writing tests, you generally don’t want to write to the database, email customers, and hit third-party API’s. That’s why we need to know how to mock dependencies!

Does the idea of submitting to a code review make you sweat bullets? Or do you brush it off as a necessary evil? It should be a (hopefully positive) conversation, wherein the team agrees to the code they’re all going to have to help maintain, and maybe learns something new too.

I just deleted my coworkers code. 😱 It was good code that wasn’t needed anymore, and he understood why. The nature of coding is that it’s a progression, and any individual code is transient by nature. Today’s code is subject to tomorrow’s refactoring.

All programming languages have gotchas to trip you up, and C# is no exception. Today, let’s check out the subtle (but significant) difference between “throw” and “throw ex”.

How do you know when you’ve finally arrived, and are officially a programmer? Is it a set of skills, a certain amount of time? Can you ever really arrive, when it’s a race of one with no finish line?

A few years ago, on the 30th anniversary of the Legend of Zelda, Scott Lininger and Mike Magee open sourced a 3D version of the original LoZ. The site was taken down, but the code’s still available to run!

We’ve all seen word clouds, like in the sidebars of blogs, but let’s see how we might create our own with a little bit of code!

Windows sets certain locations aside for apps, and makes them easily discoverable for devs to use. Let’s see how.

At work, we’re running through The Pragmatic Programmer - the original, not the 2nd edition published last year. If anyone is reading that, I’d love to know if it really updates things for modern programming and whether it seems necessary. The original seems pretty timeless. Yesterday was my turn to present, listing out highlights from chapter 5, sharing some thoughts, and hopefully spurring some conversation. The authors start by talking about the Law of Demeter, but they don’t explain it very well, nor do they call it by its much more self-explanatory name, the Principle of Least Knowledge. ...

GitHub is an amazing set of tools around Git, but it’s lacking in certain areas. Where it fails to impress, browser addons often pick up the slack. Here’s 13 addons (plus a few honorable mentions) that will take your GitHub experience to the next level!