I’ve heard variants of this question every year of my professional career from aspiring developers and students of computer science. Unfortunately, the real answer is the most common in all software development.

It depends.

SQL and database technologies it powers is a tool that can be (mis)applied in …

Something frustrating I learned today about my favorite Mocking tool today, or at least in version 4.0 that I have installed, it can’t handle anonymous objects in method parameters. This is very depressing in web programming where it doesn’t make much sense to create a static DTO …

While Visual Studio is often made fun of for being bloated, and has more functionality than a single developer could hope to create in a career, it still has a few missing features. This is where Resharper from JetBrains steps in.

In particular today I want to talk about just …

In software development today there is always a stream of new technologies, languages, frameworks, paradigms, and stacks to evaluate. Even if you narrow your scope to C# web stacks, there are plenty of new developments in development tech. I’ve seen and read about a lot of them, but I …

HTML select’s don’t implement the readonly attribute, so the only way to prevent them from being edited is to use the disabled attribute. Doing so however prevents them from being posted on submission. The standard solution for this is create a hidden input field, which you have to …

Configuring SQL server replication isn’t something I do every day, so I thought I might enjoy some breadcrumbs to follow the next time I travel down this path.

My client needed to have a number of tables and views replicated to a reporting server. The reporting server needed near …

I’m a big fan of SourceTree by Atlassian. While purists might scoff at a GUI for Git, I find my normal workflow much improved by a few pretty pictures. And for the tough stuff, the Terminal is dedicated button on the main repo view.

What stinks about SourceTree, at …

class Foo {
    public void Who( int i ) {
        Console.Write("Foo");
    }
}

class Bar : Foo {
    public void Who( double d ) {
        Console.Write("Bar");
    }
}

var bar = new Bar();
bar.Who( (int) 1 );
//Outputs "Bar" to the Console

Why does the compiler use the double version of the method when we passed an integer …