Year in Review: 2020
This year has obviously been a lot different than everyone expected. I feel extremely fortunately and lucky to be in an industry that naturally makes ...
Read moreStarting 'The Unhandled Exception' podcast
I have some exciting news! As you may already know if you follow me on Twitter, I've recently started my very own podcast!! TLDR; - If you're not inte...
Read moreStanding desk: Part 1 - Initial thoughts
As an industry, we spend far too much time sat down. A quick Google search will show plenty of research suggesting that this is very bad for you in ma...
Read moreGit: Dealing with unrelated changes whilst working on a feature branch
How many times have you been working in a Git feature branch, and come across something in code that you want to change, but isn't related to the feat...
Read moreComparing .NET Mocking Libraries
There are quite a few different mocking libraries in .NET. Moq and NSubstitute seem to be by far the main ones I hear that developers use. I've used b...
Read moreMulti-page login screens, hidden username fields, and LastPass!
I've just recently had an issue where I'd created two accounts for the same website - one for myself and one for my wife. I quickly hit a very strange...
Read moreCleaner tests with XUnit's IAsyncLifetime and expression-bodied members
When writing tests, sometimes it can be tempting to dump a bunch of asserts into the same test to avoid duplication across multiple tests... public cl...
Read moreDevOps Tooling for Developers - we're so spoilt!
Last week I had a catchup meeting with a client about the progress of a platform I'm building for them, and showed them how the "devops" sid...
Read morePair Programming
I've recently started a new contract where we do 100% pair-programming. This is the first time I've done pair-programming on anywhere near this level....
Read moreWriting More Succinct C#
When looking at a lot of C# code nowadays, I find myself thinking "wow, that code could be made SO MUCH SMALLER!". C# is a very flexible lan...
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