LINQ and Entity Framework are fantastic! but sometimes you can end up in situations that are weird. One of those cases is when LINQ is translated into SQL in a way that is different from what you would expect. This Read More …
I spent quite a bit of time trying to fix a problem in a project I’m working on where I’m extracting reusable components from an existing application to a new angular library. I’ve followed the usual steps indicated in the Read More …
The other day I had an interesting thing to do, as the title said, I wanted my model to store an array of enum values. EF doesn’t map this kind of properties to anything, but you can create a new Read More …
This is a huge discussion and the debate could be similar to Tab vs Spaces on how and where should we put the configuration variables such as connections strings and environment specific variables. There are three main choices here Web.config transformations Read More …
Another quick video about adding tests to an existing project. If you haven’t seen last time’s video go check it out now! The project I’m working on is a Micro ORM and you can find it on Debonair. To Break Read More …
This is the second video of me adding tests to a real working project. You can take a look my last video here. First things first, in the previous video I added asserts to a set of test that where already built Read More …
This is the first of a series of short videos about adding tests to already exsiting software. For this videos I picked an interesting Micro ORM project called Debonair, you can find more info about the project in the Github repo. Read More …
This is part 2 of a series on refactoring, you should also read part one where we introduce refactorings and why you should do it Doing a refactoring in any BIG project can be a frightening experience, you know that Read More …
In this article we will do a short introduction to refactoring. What it is, why you should do it and when. I think that refactoring is an important part of the development cycle and that every programmer should do it. Read More …
I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. When I read The Churn by Uncle Bob Martin I started questioning if what he stated was the real problem we have in our profession. I started thinking about my career and that of other people I Read More …