July 15, 2025
Over the past few days, I’ve seen a number of posts questioning how employees handle adversity, often framed as tests of character. One story criti...
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Over the past few days, I’ve seen a number of posts questioning how employees handle adversity, often framed as tests of character. One story criti...
Read more →June 5, 2025
I recently spent over $35,000 having a bathroom professionally built. New tile, new layout, high-end finishes—the works. I trusted the process and ...
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I recently spent over $35,000 having a bathroom professionally built. New tile, new layout, high-end finishes—the works. I trusted the process and ...
Read more →May 28, 2025
We were shopping for higher-end lighting—ceiling fans, fixtures, and accent pieces that would complement the design of our home while solving some ...
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We were shopping for higher-end lighting—ceiling fans, fixtures, and accent pieces that would complement the design of our home while solving some ...
Read more →May 7, 2025
At a company I once worked for, we had a very specific rule: only one carafe of coffee in the office at a time.
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Years ago, I was fortunate enough to take a class on experimental design. Paraphrasing the professor: “The great thing about animals is they don’t ...
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At a company I once worked for, we had a very specific rule: only one carafe of coffee in the office at a time.
Read more →April 30, 2025
Years ago, I worked for a company with several sister organizations that sold products to both consumers and businesses. One of these organizations...
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Years ago, I worked for a company with several sister organizations that sold products to both consumers and businesses. One of these organizations...
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Everyone talks about how AI is going to replace jobs, put people out of work, and do the thinking for the rest of us. Like every other machine, it’...
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One conversation that’s always stuck with me was about the role of ideas in the creative process. I was speaking with someone who owned a software ...
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One conversation that’s always stuck with me was about the role of ideas in the creative process. I was speaking with someone who owned a software ...
Read more →March 22, 2025
We often make the same mistake repeatedly. We look at a problem or an existing product and think, “This can be better.” We say, “We’re going to cre...
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In 1947, an engineer named Percy Spencer made an accidental but groundbreaking discovery—one that would lead to a revolutionary invention. What he ...
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In 1947, an engineer named Percy Spencer made an accidental but groundbreaking discovery—one that would lead to a revolutionary invention. What he ...
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Walking through the concept of functions as data and applying it can lead to applying and manipluating different code. Assuming that code is a seri...
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We often make the same mistake repeatedly. We look at a problem or an existing product and think, “This can be better.” We say, “We’re going to cre...
Read more →March 15, 2025
Years ago, a family friend of ours was a talented picture framer, highly regarded both for his artistic sensibility and technical precision. One da...
Read more →March 15, 2025
Years ago, a family friend of ours was a talented picture framer, highly regarded both for his artistic sensibility and technical precision. One da...
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When I ran the intern program at a previous company, we gave applicants a small coding test—not to weed people out but to ensure they had a basic a...
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I recently participated in a discussion that centered around the question, “What is AI good for?” The general sentiment seemed to be one of indiffe...
Read more →October 4, 2023
Mac OS X 2 q £ ATTR £ com.apple.provena...
Read more →December 23, 2021
Happy Holidays! This is my post for the C# advent calendar!
Read more →December 23, 2021
Happy Holidays! This is my post for the C# advent calendar!
Read more →December 23, 2021
Tom Hacohen wrote a great post about his view of types and their place in development. At the end, he asked for different views, and so I thought I...
Read more →December 1, 2021
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Read more →December 1, 2021
Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 terms will be:
Read more →December 1, 2021
One of the biggest difficulties with moving database objects from one environment to another is getting the execution order correct. It’s possible...
Read more →December 1, 2021
https://github.com/PombeirP/T4Factories/blob/master/T4Factories.Testbed/CodeTemplates/VisualStudioAutomationHelper.ttinclude
Read more →December 1, 2021
One of the biggest difficulties with moving database objects from one environment to another is getting the execution order correct. It’s possible...
Read more →December 26, 2017
Several years ago I worked with someone who really felt he was happy at his job. Was he? I don’t know. He never mentioned not liking where we worke...
Read more →December 26, 2017
Several years ago I worked with someone who really felt he was happy at his job. Was he? I don’t know. He never mentioned not liking where we worke...
Read more →December 20, 2017
Hi everyone! This is part of the really cool new CS Advent Calendar run by Matthew Groves! Go check out all the really great articles by everyone!
Read more →November 19, 2017
Within the last couple of days Microsoft released a proposed update for the next major release of C# version 8. Over the past several years, there...
Read more →November 19, 2017
Within the last couple of days Microsoft released a proposed update for the next major release of C# version 8. Over the past several years, there...
Read more →November 5, 2017
On a semi regular basis, people question why I choose to use F# to implement projects. They question why use a lesser known language when one like ...
Read more →September 29, 2017
I have uploaded my notes from my presentation on Regular Expressions. Currently, I am flushing out my presentation notes into a more readable form...
Read more →July 10, 2017
If you would like to attend my talk on C# 7, and you can’t attend or don’t happen to live in Indianapolis, you can watch remotely at 11:30 EDT Thur...
Read more →July 10, 2017
If you would like to attend my talk on C# 7, and you can’t attend or don’t happen to live in Indianapolis, you can watch remotely at 11:30 EDT Thur...
Read more →July 2, 2017
When was the last time you sat down and talked to your team about problems? What was the last task or procedure you changed because it was a bad f...
Read more →June 23, 2017
If you want to take a peek at the new C# 7, come stop by the TCC Lunch and Learn on July 20th! We’ll try and have a remote option too if you can’t...
Read more →June 23, 2017
If you want to take a peek at the new C# 7, come stop by the TCC Lunch and Learn on July 20th! We’ll try and have a remote option too if you can’t...
Read more →June 5, 2017
With C# 7, Microsoft added the concept of pattern matching by enhancing the switch statement. Compared to functional languages (both pure and impu...
Read more →June 5, 2017
With C# 7, Microsoft added the concept of pattern matching by enhancing the switch statement. Compared to functional languages (both pure and impu...
Read more →March 2, 2017
I’m hosting a Visual Studio launch party on March 21st. If you are in the Indianapolis area and want to come check out what’s new, you should stop...
Read more →March 2, 2017
I’m hosting a Visual Studio launch party on March 21st. If you are in the Indianapolis area and want to come check out what’s new, you should stop...
Read more →March 1, 2017
I have been fortunate enough to be allowed to speak at Indy.Code() which really means I’m grateful to get the chance to listen to all the other spe...
Read more →March 1, 2017
I have been fortunate enough to be allowed to speak at Indy.Code() which really means I’m grateful to get the chance to listen to all the other spe...
Read more →September 7, 2016
I’ll be talking about C# 7 on, Friday September 9th at 9 A.M. Come and listen, or if you can’t make it and are interested, view it remotely.
Read more →September 7, 2016
I’ll be talking about C# 7 on, Friday September 9th at 9 A.M. Come and listen, or if you can’t make it and are interested, view it remotely.
Read more →September 6, 2016
C# 7 has started to introduce Pattern Matching. This is a concept found in functional programming, and although it isn’t fully implemented compare...
Read more →September 6, 2016
C# 7 has started to introduce Pattern Matching. This is a concept found in functional programming, and although it isn’t fully implemented compare...
Read more →September 2, 2016
A small, but nice chance in C# 7 is increased flexibility in literals. Previously, large numeric constants had no separator, and it was difficult ...
Read more →September 2, 2016
A small, but nice chance in C# 7 is increased flexibility in literals. Previously, large numeric constants had no separator, and it was difficult ...
Read more →September 1, 2016
In previous versions, throwing exceptions had certain limitations where they could be used. Although not hampering, at times it caused additional ...
Read more →September 1, 2016
In previous versions, throwing exceptions had certain limitations where they could be used. Although not hampering, at times it caused additional ...
Read more →August 31, 2016
C# 7 expands the use of the ref keyword. Along with its previous use, it can now be used in return statements, and local variables can store a refe...
Read more →August 31, 2016
C# 7 expands the use of the ref keyword. Along with its previous use, it can now be used in return statements, and local variables can store a refe...
Read more →August 30, 2016
C# 7 removes the need for out variables to be predeclared before passing them into a function.
Read more →August 30, 2016
C# 7 removes the need for out variables to be predeclared before passing them into a function.
Read more →August 29, 2016
C# has a new type of method, the Deconstructor. When a type implements this method type with the name of Deconstruct, multiple variables maybe dir...
Read more →August 29, 2016
C# has a new type of method, the Deconstructor. When a type implements this method type with the name of Deconstruct, multiple variables maybe dir...
Read more →August 28, 2016
In C# 7 it is now possible to create a function within a function termed a Local Function. This is for instances where a second function is helpfu...
Read more →August 28, 2016
In C# 7 it is now possible to create a function within a function termed a Local Function. This is for instances where a second function is helpfu...
Read more →August 27, 2016
In C# 7 Microsoft has introduced an updated Tuple type. It has a streamlined syntax compared to it’s predecessor making it fall it look more like F...
Read more →August 27, 2016
In C# 7 Microsoft has introduced an updated Tuple type. It has a streamlined syntax compared to it’s predecessor making it fall it look more like F...
Read more →July 6, 2016
The idea of using eval has always been in interesting debate. Instead of writing logic which accounts for possibly hundreds of different scenarios,...
Read more →July 6, 2016
The idea of using eval has always been in interesting debate. Instead of writing logic which accounts for possibly hundreds of different scenarios,...
Read more →March 21, 2016
Microsoft has a new set of services which use machine learning to extrapolate data from images and speech called Project Oxford. Each service has ...
Read more →March 14, 2016
When dealing with dates in .NET, most applications use the System.DateTime struct to store and manipulate dates. It has a natural conversion from ...
Read more →March 7, 2016
This question talks about removing a switch statement so that every time the business logic changes concerning a multiplier value, the C# code itse...
Read more →February 22, 2016
It’s pretty common knowledge in a .NET console application using the following command will produce the following result.
Read more →February 22, 2016
It’s pretty common knowledge in a .NET console application using the following command will produce the following result.
Read more →February 9, 2016
I’ll be talking on Application Performance Monitoring in .NET on the 16th at TCC. Come listen and get free pizza!
Read more →February 9, 2016
I’ll be talking on Application Performance Monitoring in .NET on the 16th at TCC. Come listen and get free pizza!
Read more →October 19, 2015
A lot of times a project, especially as it progresses, lacks proper requirements, time, or the resources, and tracking changes to data is often an ...
Read more →March 30, 2015
In C#, the concept of a virtual method is not new. It’s a simple concept in which a child class may change the functionality of certain parent met...
Read more →March 30, 2015
In C#, the concept of a virtual method is not new. It’s a simple concept in which a child class may change the functionality of certain parent met...
Read more →January 12, 2015
From a theoretical sense, there would never be any reason to segregate data which has a one to one relationship. Multiple tables were meant to all...
Read more →January 12, 2015
From a theoretical sense, there would never be any reason to segregate data which has a one to one relationship. Multiple tables were meant to all...
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One of the largest problems people have with keeping stored procedures in source control is not a disagreement that they should be but the change t...
Read more →December 15, 2014
The biggest problem with managing Nuget packages for internal applications is creating and publishing the correct versions for others to consume. ...
Read more →December 15, 2014
The biggest problem with managing Nuget packages for internal applications is creating and publishing the correct versions for others to consume. ...
Read more →December 1, 2014
There is often a lot of questions about the execution of finally statements in C#. It is a common assumption that finally blocks reliably execute,...
Read more →December 1, 2014
There is often a lot of questions about the execution of finally statements in C#. It is a common assumption that finally blocks reliably execute,...
Read more →November 9, 2014
Wireframing applications are great for creating quick visuals of what a screen or series of screens may look like. The quality of the picture co...
Read more →October 26, 2014
In IIS there are several different options allowing you to control the behavior of an application. With all of these settings Microsoft attempts t...
Read more →October 26, 2014
In IIS there are several different options allowing you to control the behavior of an application. With all of these settings Microsoft attempts t...
Read more →August 3, 2014
The question comes up from time to time about storing passwords in code, and is it secure. Ultimately, it’s probably a bad idea to store passwords...
Read more →August 3, 2014
The question comes up from time to time about storing passwords in code, and is it secure. Ultimately, it’s probably a bad idea to store passwords...
Read more →July 13, 2014
As applications grow in size and age, they can become difficult to navigate and unruly to manage. Most organizations give little thought to spendi...
Read more →July 13, 2014
As applications grow in size and age, they can become difficult to navigate and unruly to manage. Most organizations give little thought to spendi...
Read more →June 15, 2014
Several years ago, I was working on moving data from the reporting server to the development environment so I could test structural changes. Think...
Read more →June 15, 2014
Several years ago, I was working on moving data from the reporting server to the development environment so I could test structural changes. Think...
Read more →June 11, 2014
A few weeks ago, someone asked me if it is possible to create a server dashboard (real time processor usage, available memory etc.) using web techn...
Read more →May 27, 2014
In a recent project, we were tasked with making a service layer more manageable and efficient, and with a tight deadline each minute needed to coun...
Read more →April 16, 2014
Using PowerShell to create new web applications with the IIS PowerShell Snap-In is incredibly easy. Just use New-WebApplication and specify S...
Read more →April 13, 2014
Recently, I had to work on an audit item concerning removing the “X-Powered-By” header from the IIS websites.
Read more →April 13, 2014
Recently, I had to work on an audit item concerning removing the “X-Powered-By” header from the IIS websites.
Read more →April 6, 2014
JavaScript has built in functionality to sort arrays, but it doesn’t always work the way you think it would.
Read more →April 6, 2014
JavaScript has built in functionality to sort arrays, but it doesn’t always work the way you think it would.
Read more →April 2, 2014
One of the most difficult aspects of the software development process is developing for and testing database updates. Unlike updating web sites, a...
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One of the most difficult aspects of the software development process is developing for and testing database updates. Unlike updating web sites, a...
Read more →March 28, 2014
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Read more →March 23, 2014
One thing that always frustrated me about writing in technology (documents, resumes etc.) was the abnormal spelling of companies, technologies, and...
Read more →March 20, 2014
When I started programming, it was customary to declare the variables at the top of the method. Many people stated that it was clearer to declare ...
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When I started programming, it was customary to declare the variables at the top of the method. Many people stated that it was clearer to declare ...
Read more →March 16, 2014
A little while ago we had a problem when an unidentified Guid came up in an error email. Whoever wrote the original message, knew exactly where to...
Read more →March 12, 2014
One of the most frustrating parts of database development is double applying scripts. If you are working directly on the production server, this p...
Read more →March 12, 2014
One of the most frustrating parts of database development is double applying scripts. If you are working directly on the production server, this p...
Read more →March 9, 2014
When writing a language where { ... } or BEGIN ... END are optional, I always put them in. Some people say this takes up space when not required...
Read more →January 15, 2014
Generally, I don’t like writing code more than once if I can avoid it. Most people apply the DRY principle to application code, but I also find it...
Read more →January 1, 2014
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Read more →January 1, 2014
Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 terms will be:
Read more →January 1, 2014
One of the biggest difficulties with moving database objects from one environment to another is getting the execution order correct. It’s possible...
Read more →January 1, 2014
https://github.com/PombeirP/T4Factories/blob/master/T4Factories.Testbed/CodeTemplates/VisualStudioAutomationHelper.ttinclude
Read more →January 1, 2014
One of the biggest difficulties with moving database objects from one environment to another is getting the execution order correct. It’s possible...
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