Pragmatic Programming

2: Pragmatic Programmer Digest

Legacy Code and What to do with it

1: Pragmatic Programmer Digest

Starting a new weekly series called Pragmatic Programmer Digest to share content from around the internet…

An Opinionated Guide to Handling Errors in Your Rest API: Exceptions

In this article we will cover how what are types of errors that occur in Rest APIs, how we can translate to programming languages, and some general guidelines for how to use exceptions.

Trust the Process: A Look at Handling Production Issues

.NET Things: Delegates

Continuing on with the .NET Things series, we’re going to explore C# delegates — put simply they are functions that are treated as first class objects, and therefore can be passed around as parameters in your code. We’ll see how C# exposes this API, some common places ASP.NET uses them…

.NET Things: Assembly Scanning

In this installment of .NET Things, we’ll dive into a common dependency injection pattern known as Assembly Scanning, which is used throughout ASP.NET systems. Assembly Scanning is a pattern that describes the automatic registration of one or more dependencies within your…

.NET Things: Pipeline Design Pattern

The pipeline (or chain of responsibility) design pattern is a programming pattern that allows…

Structuring Your Team: Feature Owners

The growing importance of technology in the industry has caused a surge of technology focused…

First Impressions: Node.js

In this article I wanted to share my initial impressions working with Node.js coming from a .NET developer.