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How do you practice your performance?

Someone recently asked me that, as a software developer and not a professional magician, how do I practice my performances? This is my answer turned into a blog post.I practice my performances

programming

"Pair documenting" might produce higher quality documentation.

Over the past two days I spent about 8 hours writing documentation. Was the documentation worth it? Will anyone ever read it? If they do, will it help? When is documentation done? Have

project-management, focus, goal-setting

Current Side Projects as of January 2019

It's hard to complete side projects - as we progress, boredom becomes harder to overcome. Dr. Randy Paterson calls this The Project Resistance Curve. The image at the top of this blog post

ghost

Upgrade from Azure Ghost 0.x.x to Ghost 2.x.x

OverviewI have been running Ghost 0.x in an Azure App Service with Windows Server. Now I am wanting to upgrade to Ghost 2.0 (using the Deploy to Azure from here.)The

javascript

this in functions, arrow functions, class methods, and class arrow function properties

Functions & Class Methods both bind this when/how/where they are called. it is sometimes called dynamic binding Arrow Function & Arrow Function Class Properties both bind this when/how/where they

markdown

Converting Markdown to HTML and/or ODT format

These commands from the command line convert from markdown to HTML and then HTML to ODT. pandoc .\some-file.md -f markdown -t html -s -o .\some-file.html pandoc .\some-file.html -f html -t

typescript

What does [keyof T] do at the end of a type = {} declaration?

type Foo<T> = { // pretend we have a type definition for Q here }[keyof T]; What does the [keyof T] do at the end there? Short Answer When placed at the end

software-dev

What if the team makes a bad decision despite advice to the contrary?

On the one hand, we need to defer to the team. On the other hand, we have a professional responsibility. Importantly, there is now a conflict. Doing well in conflict means being prepared

powershell

PowerShell One-Liner: insert a space between each capital letter; convert PascalCase to Pascal Case

PS> ('FooBar' -creplace '([A-Z])', ' $1').Trim() Foo Bar

High level notes on @font-face in CSS.

It's okay to use multiple @font-face rules in a site to define multiple custom fonts. @font-face { font-family: MyHelvetica; src: local("Helvetica Neue Bold"), local("HelveticaNeue-Bold"), url(MgOpenModernaBold.ttf); font-weight:

TypeScript class vs interface vs type

This is a brain dump. It is in no way authoritative. I want multiple objects... ...to have the same shape use a type ...and to support inheritance use an interface ...and to have

typescript

Data Transfer Object (Dto) Type Wrapper in TypeScript.

The Dto wrapper turns a class type into a data transfer object type by removing all the methods from the type definition, thereby creating a type that has only data properties. It further

git

PowerShell and Git to Capitalize all the Files in a Directory on Windows

Windows is a case-folding operating system, which means that changing the case of a file name is non-trivial. The following uses PowerShell and Git to capitalize all the files names in a directory.

typescript

Error handling with an Either type in TypeScript.

type Result<T> = T | Error; const someFunc = (isError: boolean): Result<string> => { if (isError) { return new Error(); } return 'Success!'; }; const otherFunc = (isError: boolean): Result<number> =>

typescript

TypeScript constructor parameters with public, private, and protected

A class constructor can automatically create and initialize class properties by using parameter property declarations. public class Foo { constructor(public bar: string, private baz: number, protected qux: boolean) {} } That is the equivalent of

javascript

Simple Fetch API Example

let request = new Request('https://localhost:5001/api/values'); fetch(request) .then((response) => response.json()) .then((json) => console.log(json)); https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API

git

Finding (searching for) things with Git

Search file name git ls-files '<pathspec>' git log '<pathspec>' git rev-list --all -- '<pathspec>' Search file content git log -S '&

software-development

Architecting Large Scale Software Systems

Image by janeb13 at https://pixabay.com/en/europa-sailboat-fs-senator-brockes-1185800/ These are notes on architecting large scale systems. (Is architecting even a word?) The notes came out of a series of recent conversations with

investing

MSCI World Index

MSCI is Morgan Stanley Capital International. The MSCI World Index is a global equity index they publish. https://www.msci.com/world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCI

visual-studio

Visual Studio ReSharper Performance for Large Solutions

git

Git: List the files you have worked on in the last week

git log --no-merges --author=shaun --name-only --pretty=format:"" --since="1 week ago" -- *.cs | sort -u

c#

ReSharper: Exclude all C# projects from analysis

We have a project with 72 files. ReSharper takes too many minutes to load. Exclude all the projects! Run this PowerShell script. Paste its output into your *.DotSettings or *.DotSettings.User file. dir

azure

Deploying a Custom Read the Docs Install to an Azure App Service

DRAFT https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/custom_installs/index.html Install Python 2.7x on Windows https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2715/ C:/Python27 Install Python 2.7x on Linux https:

asp.net-core

TagHelper Structure

This is some rendered output in the browser. In HTML that looks like this. <p>PreElement.SetHtmlContent(string) <ul class="small text-primary"> <li>PreContent.SetHtmlContent(

dotnet-core

dotnet watch run usage examples

Version 2.1.3 of the .NET Core SDK includes the file watcher. Here is how to use it from the command line... with the --project option: // right dotnet watch --project path\to\