I just learned something about pattern matching and case objects in Scala which I thought I’d share.

In this post, I’m going to demonstrate how to get a useful diff for binary Excel files that reside in a Git repository. I assume that you’re familiar with Git, and in that case you know that having binary files in a repository is generally not a good …

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 …