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Michael Juliano

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Michael Juliano
Michael Juliano
Oct 6 · 3 min read

MVVM Makes No Sense

I’ve been learning Xamarin.Forms to develop mobile apps, and I’ve been getting along fine in VB.NET using POCOs (real POCOs, not the JavaBean rip-offs). I’ve chosen to consciously ignore MVVM recommendations and instead am sticking to a natural decomposition of the domain into objects with…

Michael Juliano
Michael Juliano
Oct 4 · 3 min read

.NET’s Initializer Syntax is Stupid

Oh, what an idiotic tale this is!

A brief, probably inaccurate history.

Once upon a time, there was a company called Sun Microsystems who had an Object-Oriented Programming language known as…

Michael Juliano
Michael Juliano
Jan 28, 2018 · 2 min read

Friendship

What does it mean for a friendship to be strong?

Usually, the strength of a thing is a loose measure of how effective it is at fulfilling its purpose. It seems that everyone has their own ideas about the purpose of friendship, and, for any given person, these ideas can even vary…

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Michael Juliano
Michael Juliano
Jan 15, 2018 · 3 min read

Stab Wound to the Psyche

I feel as though I’m bleeding out. The distress is overwhelming. Like an abused animal, I reach out to friends only to bite them unexpectedly. There is no ointment to sooth, no elixir to calm.

Michael Juliano
Michael Juliano
Oct 5, 2015 · 1 min read

Lot Full

Imagine that it is 9:00 a.m. on Black Friday, and you are pulling into the parking lot at the mall.

Imagine that you just arrived at your favorite restaurant, and the host says that there is a 2-hour wait.