First of all, make sure that you use StringBuilder when concatenating strings. You see, the “+” operator — just kidding. I mean, that’s not bad advice. Rather, I’m kidding in that I just don’t want to offer this style of tip today. Often, advice about application performance comes at you with the staccato of rapid-fire…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SubMain blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, have a look at GhostDoc. Before I get down to the brass tacks of how to do some interesting stuff, I’m going to spin a tale of woe. Well, I might…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, check out all of the new tech debt-related features in the newest version of NDepend. I’ve heard people say (paraphrased) that teams succeed uniformly, but fail each in its own unique…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SubMain blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, download a trial of CodeIt.Right. More years ago than I’d care to admit, I took a software engineering course as part of my graduate CS program. At the time, I worked…
I just dug up a tweet I made about 6 years ago. I did this because I remembered saying it, and because it perfectly illustrates a distinction I’m going to make today. Specifically, I’ll talk about the distinction between technical hobbies and side hustle. And, I’ll then advocate for side hustle. But first, the tweet….
