What and Why? (If you’re here because you googled for a RPi tutorial, I’d suggest skipping to the next section) I’ve recently throttled back on being all .NET all the time, mainly because I’m trying to spend more time working on my home automation. Toward that end, I recently picked up a Raspberry Pi. Since…
Heavily Commented Code: The Awful Empathy Imagine a feeling–that empathy you get when you’re watching someone fail in front of an audience. Perhaps its a comedian relying on awful puns and props or a person in a public speaking course that just freezes after forgetting some lines. Ugh. It’s so awkward that it hurts. It’s…
Many moons ago, I stumbled across a website containing an index of “Flame Warriors.” The Flame Warriors were caricatures of personality archetypes that might be found in your typical early-to-mid 2000s discussion forum. Inspired by that and by different people with different characteristics that I’ve met in various capacities over the years, I decided to…
Welcome Aboard, New Grad I recently answered a question on programmer Stack Exchange, and it got me to thinking. The premise of the question was (paraphrased), “we hired a bunch of entry level people as an investment in tomorrow but we’re not quite sure what to do with them today–what do you think?” The most…
I ran across a method that returned an IEnumerable<T> recently, and I implicitly typed its return value. During the course of a series of method extractions, code movement, and general refactoring, I wound up with some code that passed the various unit tests in place but failed curiously at runtime. After peering at it for…
