I've seen 2 PII-breaches this Christmas

As someone who never really orders anything online, this Christmas I thought I'd get my shopping done ahead of time. As I would soon find ... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

No, I don't want free lunches

Inspired by this post , I'd like to give some perspective on benefits that companies offer to attract and keep their talent. Disclaimer - ... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

What am I passionate about?

What are you really passionate about ? Do you really know, are you drifting week by week hoping that magic wish gets answered? Is it a feeli... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

C# 8 is becoming too terse and it's going to backfire

I love working in C#, plain and simple. C# gets the job done, but - in it's latest preview, it's becoming too terse. Let me explain. A '... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

ASP.NET Core 2.2 with LibMan, NPM and Webpack 4

Javascript tooling is a mess . Every time that I start a new application, I'm always asking myself how I need to setup my tooling. Thankfull... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

Play the token game to re-align and balance your life

In the midst of a new framework, AI capabilities, hacker-space conference, IoT devices, search algorithm, online privacy, and the rest we se... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

Blocking website ads with a hosts file

Am I the only one who is skeptical clicking on ads I see online? Yes, I know it is the lifeblood of entrepreneurs , but I really don't care ... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

FLIF – the image file format of the future

I'm on a kick with future predictions , so why not one about image file formats. There always seems to be a new one every week (kidding!). ... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

How we can secure our data better for the future

I recently spoke to an incredibly wise co-worker who shared with me his vision of data security, and his explanation was so insightful I cou... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

What school doesn't prepare you for in your first programming job

This post isn't necessary advocating for dropping out of school  to get your first programming job, but rather a list of things I wish I had... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

What I'm excited for in Visual Studio 2019

What's the one thing I'm most excited about that is coming in Visual Studio 2019? All of it! Get ready IntelliCode This is Visual ... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

Maintaining good health at a desk job

It's important to improve your skills , but you can't neglect your health as a programmer. Here are four, very easy steps you can take to ma... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

How to become a better programmer (roadmap)

I'll be the first to admit, programming was never something I found easy. My very first experience in programming was when I got this book a... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

Creating notifications with Powershell

What do we get more than anything, notifications . I'm a fan of turning them off (when I can), but if you wanted to show notifications thro... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

C# – Creating .GIF files by hand

It's almost the season for Christmas , and what a fun way to tie in the season with some programming than learning how to make .GIF files w... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

How to approach a programming question when you don't know the answer

Quite often as a developer, you are asked to do things you do not know the answer to. When approached with these problems, pay attention to ... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

My story about NET Core environment tags

My brief story which lead me to look to an unlikely culprit of what was causing a bug in my .NET Core application. The background This... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

Productive Windows keyboard shortcuts

The further you get a long in your development career, the more and more you begin to make use of keyboard shortcuts. Time is precious , and... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

Programming – how to delete old files with Powershell

Practical Powershell. Today we will be using Powershell to help you with day-to-day tasks. We are going to explore how to create a Powershel... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

Programming – copying data from spreadsheets into SQL

Long before I even knew what  SSIS  was, I was doing what some might call ad-hoc programming when I was given a spreadsheet and told that t... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

Programming – do you choose inheritance or interfaces?

What's the right answer? The answer to every programming question Let's explore both options and when you might choose to prefer o... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

NET Core – Automatically minifying .cshtml files

What gets me more excited than anything? Performance. Performance level 100 Its always exciting to me to perform at max efficiency , ... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

NET Core – Building multiplayer console app

I felt a desire to do something I hadn't tried yet, and that was to make a multiplayer game over the network within a .NET Core console app... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

NET Core – Implementing GDPR stop gap coverage

Incorporating GDPR compliance is something that takes time, effort and thorough understanding of the law. In this post, we are going to sho... | Continue reading


@debugandrelease.blogspot.com | 5 years ago