A Blog About Random Computer Subjects
Introduction We’ve all modified and saved variables in the web.config and app.config files of our applications. I’m going to discuss issues that occur when a company maintains multiple environments. Environments When I talk about environments, I’m talking about entire systems that mimic the production system of a company. An example is a development environment, a … Read moreEnvironment Configuration
My wife and I recently took a vacation in Nevada so we could hike trails in parks surrounding Las Vegas. To get a sense of what we did on vacation you can check out the pictures on my hiking blog by clicking here (I lined up the post dates to be the date when we … Read moreRansomware
Why is there No Documentation? I’m surprised at the number of developers who don’t create any documentation. There are ways to self-document code and there are packages to add automatic help to an API to document the services. Unfortunately, that’s not enough. I’ve heard all the arguments: It chews up programming time. It rapidly becomes … Read moreDocumentation
Introduction In this post, I’m going to talk about basic dependency injection and mocking a method that is used to access hardware. The method I’ll be mocking is the System.IO.Directory.Exists(). Mocking Methods One of the biggest headaches with unit testing is that you have to make sure you mock any objects that your method under … Read moreMocking Your File System
The Basics The IBM 701 computer was one of IBM’s first commercially available computers. Here are a few facts about the 701: The 701 was introduced in 1953. IBM sold only 30 units. It used approximately 4,000 tubes. Memory was stored on 72 CRT tubes called Williams Tubes with a total capacity of 2,048 words. … Read moreVintage Hardware – The IBM 701
There is this debate raging among developers: “Is it better to use stored procedures or not use stored procedures”. From first glance, this seems like a simple question, but there are some complicated implications around this question. Here’s the basic pros and cons of using stored procedures in your system: Pros You can isolate table … Read moreStored Procedures Vs. No Stored Procedures
Summary This subject is much larger than the blog title suggests. I’m going to discuss some basics of using a caching system to take the load off of your database and speed up your website. I’ll also discuss how cache should be handled by your software and what the pitfalls of caching can be. Caching … Read moreCaching
Summary In this blog post I’m going to demonstrate a simple .Net MVC project that uses MS SQL server to access data. Then I’m going to show how to use Redis caching to cache your results to reduce the amount of traffic hitting your database. Finally, I’m going to show how to use the AutoFac … Read more.Net MVC Project with AutoFac, SQL and Redis Cache
The Contenders Dapper Dapper is a hybrid ORM. This is a great ORM for those who have a lot of ADO legacy code to convert. Dapper uses SQL queries and parameters can be used just like ADO, but the parameters to a query can be simplified into POCOs. Select queries in Dapper can also be … Read moreDotNet Core vs. NHibernate vs. Dapper Smackdown!
In this post I’m going to describe the cleanest way to setup your Entity Framework code in .Net Core. For this example, I’m going to create the database first, then I’ll run a POCO generator to generate the Plain Old C# Objects and their mappings. Finally, I’ll put it together in a clean format. The … Read moreEntityFramework .Net Core Basics