At the beginning of December I’m going to speak at ConFoo Vancouver.I spoke at ConFoo Montreal in the past and I look forward to speaking at the first ever ConFoo Vancouver.I’ll be speaking on two of my favorite topics – unit testing and electronics (not at the same session).5 Unit Testing Facts I Wish I’d … Continue reading Upcoming speaking engagements: Vancouver here I come!
With every new version the C# language has grown and improved. The last version so a.k.a C# 6 has brought some of my favorite features. And with C# 7 just around the corner I know there's more to come. One of the new useful features added to C# is the ability to filter exceptions. Consider … Continue reading Using conditional breakpoints to filter exceptions during debugging
A while ago I came across the very interesting Soundex algorithm. It’s a way to find similarity between words based on how they sound – I’ll let Wikipedia explain:Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in English. The goal is for homophones to be encoded to the same representation so … Continue reading Implementing Soundex using LINQ (with help from OzCode)
I’ve been working with OzCode for some time now, and every now and then I find a cool capability I didn’t know it had.Today I wanted to investigate (read: debug) the way several objects were xml-serialized for a demo I’m preparing and for that I created the following method:static class Xml{ public static string SerializeObject(this … Continue reading Using OzCode’s Custom Expression to show object’s xml serialization
October just ended but I still want to shine a light on new and improved software that were released this month: nDepend v5.0 In the beginning of this month a new version of this great tool was released with a lot of new features that makes this tool even better. If you don’t know what … Continue reading Software news – October 2013
