TL;DR Using Enumerable.Concat to build a long sequence one item at a time is a particularly bad idea, since enumerating the items will consume a lot of stack space.

A while ago, a customer reported that our .NET application running in IIS started crashing on user registration after …

This blog post answers the question “Why does Uri.AbsolutePath sometimes return an escaped path and sometimes an unescaped path for the request URL in an ASP.NET application?”

I spent some time googling for a possible reason, but search terms like URL/URI, request, path, encoding, and escaping are …

Git is my version control system of choice nowadays. Its feature set fits extremely well with my usual software development workflow, and there are so many aspects of git that I could write about, but this particular blog post is about commit behavior.

There is nothing religious about this post …

CoffeeScript is “a little language that compiles into JavaScript.” If you haven’t seen or tried it, go check it out! I’ve been using it in a project for a while now, and its obvious advantage over pure JavaScript is that it is very concise and has high expressive …

Over the last year, I’ve written a fair amount of Visual Basic .NET code for a customer project. As a result, I know a lot more VB.NET than I would like to, and I’ve run into a number of peculiar behaviors, such as this one. In this …

This is a whine post, but I really need to get it out of my system. Apologies in advance!

I’ve battled with Angular for a while now. It’s a JavaScript framework that allows you to write rich client-side applications in very short time with goodies such as two-way …

When it comes to unit or integration tests, there are of course good ones and bad ones. There are few things more treacherous than a test suite filled with low-quality tests that don’t test what they’re supposed to, if anything at all. When the test suite goes green …

Occasionally I want to link to specific section of a web page. Previously, I would bring up the source of the web page to see if there was a named anchor tag for the section in question, then I would manually add the anchor name as the URL fragment. Recently …

Nothing programmatic about this post, unfortunately. Instead, a bit of rambling about Windows. :-) One of the reasons I don’t use Linux on my desktop computer is that it requires too much constant tweaking, configuring and fixing to get things to work together properly. I tried it twice, and I …

Keeping git repositories in sync is usually and easily done using git pull and git push. However, for those rare times when you don’t have network connectivity (or limited connectivity) and still need to transfer the contents of a repository to somewhere else, there’s git bundle.

The bundle …