COVID has changed the way we work forever. What constitutes a good place to work in the 2020's? — As The Great Resignation continues, many companies are confronted with the fact that COVID has changed the way we look at work forever. Over the past few years, employers have gradually been losing ground to their employees. This means that the dynamics of an employer-employee relationship are shifting. …

Store, Query and Restore Historical Data directly using SQL Server and Entity Framework Core — Time is the ever present dimension not only in our lives, but often times in our applications too. We store timestamped events in our database, schedule actions to be executed at a specific point in the future, or even keep track of a customer’s changing shipping address. The world changes…

Command-line apps don’t have to be boring! — Command line applications are the most primitive applications ever invented. In a world of sleek, highly optimized web applications that offer a great user experience, CLI applications are rudimentary, error prone, and sometimes downright infuriating to work with. You either love them, or hate them. There isn’t really any middle…

The Holy Grail of Software Architecture May Not Be Divine — Over the past ten years, the role software plays in our day to day lives has increased massively. Computers have increasingly become an intrinsic part of virtually every aspect of our lives. …

File scoped namespaces, record structs, and more — A little over a decade ago, C# was a Windows programming language. You used it on your Windows machine to make “Windowsey” things. Ever since Microsoft decided to open-source .NET in 2014, the language and its ecosystem have come a long way. Today, C# is a very suitable language for…

After almost a decade, most Agile transitions are still frustrated. But is Scrum really to blame? — A little over two years ago, I wrote an article that discussed how the Agile working methodology in general, and Scrum in particular, had changed the way modern companies — especially software companies — work. The article was essentially a fairly elaborate rant. Back then, I had been working in…

The next version of C# is around the corner, and it’s laden with exciting new features! — With the upcoming release of .NET 5 — the release which unifies the .NET runtimes — Microsoft recently announced the features that will be included in C# 9. With the final Preview version of C# 9 being announced today, it’s not far off. In this article, we’ll take a look…

Working with pointers, breaking type safety, and all sorts of fun in the unmanaged world — Over the past few years, C# has established itself as one of the mainstay languages in modern software development. In Stack Overflow’s 2019 Developer Survey, it ranked as the 7th most popular language among both hobby and professional programmers. With prominent technologies such as ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework gaining…

The Architecture that captures events produces a natural audit log and allows for time travel. — Today, we’re taking a look at a software architectural pattern that has been around for a very long time, but for one reason or another, it isn’t implemented very frequently. …