Coding While Sick: An Unexpected AI Experiment
Most conversations about AI coding assistants focus on productivity.Tools like GitHub Copilot …
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.NET Injection of a dependency list
Whilst doom scrolling Twitter last night, I came across a tweet by a Norweigan software …
Using Postman Securely
Postman is a fantastic tool for developers working with APIs, but as with any tool (especially …
New Year, new habits, and new passwords?
As we wave goodbye to the pain that was 2020, some people are looking for a different kind of …
Visual Studio: Launch in Chrome Incognito
By default Visual Studio creates an entry for each recognised web browser you have installed …
FontAwesome Spacing - The small things
It is often the small things which make a difference in an application; or at least in the end …
Obtaining the meta data from a SQL Query
I recently had a need to find a way of obtaining just the column names returned by a SQL Server …
Do you fizz buzz, buzz fizz, or just scratch your head?
Over the years I have interviewed a lot of developer candidates and given advice to a fair few …
How I run melodiouscode.net
Partly for myself and partly for any interested readers I wanted to note down how …
Folders, Folders, always folders
Two of my employers’ largest clients are law firms, and being law firms they regularly …
WCF Service aborted by the server
An error occurred while receiving the HTTP response to http://localhost:12345/SomeService.svc. …
Azure SQL Connector for the Azure Key Vault - Error 2058
I spent today in a session with our external SQL Advisor; we have been working on provisioning …
Why I hate Path.Combine
As most .NET developers will know there is a Path.Combine() method in System.IO which can be …
Developer Tools List 2018
Ask any developer who has worked in the industry for more than a month ‘what tools do you …
Remember to clean up your services; WCF Clients need love too
All developers cringe when they start working on another person’s code base; it is never …
Developer Professional Development
- Practical SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery I have met many developers who …