If you have been programming for any length of time, you may well have come across higher order functions, but (like me) may not have fully appreciated just how powerful they can be. If you’ve not heard of them before, never fear, I have an explanation below. What are higher order functions? Simply put, a…

It’s been over a month now since I last wrote an article here for my blog. I’ve been struggling a lot with low mood, which has meant that I haven’t had the motivation or the energy to produce new content. …

If you’ve spent time around C# and .NET, it’s likely that you will have come across LINQ (Language-Integrated Query), which allows you to use a range of powerful querying capabilities directly in the C# language. The example below demonstrates a couple of common features of LINQ (note that I am…

Dependency injection (DI) is a wonderful thing. Simply add your dependency as a parameter to the constructor (most commonly) of your class, register it with your DI container, and away you go — the DI container will manage the rest. …

What is Primitive Obsession? To start with, primitives are the basic data types available in most languages. These include data types such as strings, numbers (int, floats), and booleans. Primitive obsession is a code smell in which primitive data types are used excessively to represent your data models. The problem with primitives is that…

Recently I’ve been learning how to write code in F#. For those who haven’t heard of it, F# is Microsoft’s/.NET’s answer to a functional-first programming language. My motivation was to learn a functional programming language that would make coding for scientific computing and data analysis more expressive, concise, and maintainable…

Vue Draggable is a great library for Vue.js that makes it super simple to create interactive draggable components with virtually no effort. I have recently used it to create an interactive kanban board, in which tasks can be rearranged and moved between cards just by dragging. So let’s start by…

I’m not ashamed to admit that for a long time I avoided writing tests for my code. I saw it as something that took up precious time that I could have spent on “real” coding. However, after experiencing first-hand the headache caused from having to maintain production code with little-to-no…

I recently wrote a blog post introducing some of my favourite NuGet packages: My Top 4 NuGet Packages for ASP.NET Core. In that post, I briefly introduced a package called MediatR. Today, I will dedicate this post to revisiting MediatR in further detail. What is MediatR? MediatR is an implementation of the mediator…