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The First DaedTech Digest

I mentioned this idea in a post I wrote the other day, the idea of a digest style of post.  So today, I’d like to give it a try.

You see this sort of thing a lot, all over the place.  So-called planet sites have been around for a long time, aggregating community-related articles into a single place.  Examples include one of my personal favorites, the Morning Brew.

There’s just one difference in what I’m proposing.  Instead of gathering stuff that others have written, I’m going to digest the stuff that I’ve written.  In the last year, we’ve turned my paid blogging for other sites into a tech content business, taking blogging from a side hustle and hobby to a professional gig.  So, I write a lot of blog posts.

Historically, I’ve simply cross posted these with canonical linking, leading in with “editorial note: I originally wrote this post for…”  But I’m thinking of taking DaedTech in a bit of a different direction than just generalized software-oriented blog posts.  More on that later.

The point here is that, instead of pushing one of these cross posts out per day, I’m going to do a single digest post per week containing posts that I’ve made.  I have about 90 backlogged drafts in my folder, so at first it’s going to be posts I made some months back.  But sooner or later, I’ll catch up and give the posts I’ve published in the last week.

But anyway, without further ado, here’s the digest.

Some Posts to Check Out

  • This is a piece that I wrote for the Monitis blog.  It’s about threat modeling and the woes of being an e-retailer and guarding yourself against criminals and ne’er do wells.
  • I wrote a post for TechTown that was a primer about unit testing in C#.  It gives you a back to basics explanation, the value proposition, and the simplest imaginable examples of writing unit tests.
  • This is another post that I wrote for Monitis. It’s about the C# IEnumerable construct and how, if you misunderstand it, you can kill your site’s performance.  This has to do with how IEnumerable can encapsulate deferred execution, and that it only promises a strategy for obtaining items, rather than giving you those items.
  • I wrote this post for SubMain.  It’s about how something that’s seemingly inconsequential — spell checking your code (specifically, C#) is more important than you might think.  There are subtle things to consider that you might not have considered.
  • This post is actually going to become part of Microsoft’s official documentation!  Seriously, no kidding.  Bill Wagner wrote to Patrick and I about this post, and it’s now in their documentation build on Github.  Anyway, I wrote it for NDepend, and it’s a walk back through past major version of C#, reflecting back on nearly 2 decades of the language.  It was a fun journey down memory lane.

And, that’s it.   Happy reading, and happy Friday!