Explores Microsoft's Resumable Online Index Creation feature in Azure SQL DB, detailing its benefits for managing large databases without downtime.
A technical guide on setting up automated code signing for .NET NuGet packages using Azure Key Vault, AppVeyor CI, and a DigiCert certificate.
A developer's tutorial on implementing Angular route resolvers and child routes to build a checkout wizard in an app using ASP.NET Core 2.1.
Explores using the Network Information API to create web components that adapt to a user's connection speed and type.
A developer's retrospective on the mistake of shipping a product too late, with insights from their fourth month working on Zestful.
A developer shares their experience presenting a talk on CSS Grid and CSS Variables at a JavaScript meetup, discussing adoption challenges.
Explores the benefits of using email-based git workflows with tools like git send-email, contrasting them with web platforms like GitHub.
Explains the Terraform coalesce() function, which returns the first non-empty string from a list of arguments, with examples.
Analysis of the 2018 Stack Overflow Developer Survey results, ranking technologies developers worked with and want to work with.
A guide on migrating existing databases to use Entity Framework Core's built-in data seeding feature without causing insertion conflicts.
Key focus areas for hiring a VP of Engineering for a small, growing team, covering culture, automation, and team mentorship.
Explains what JavaScript polyfills are and how they differ from code transpiling, using a real-world IE bug as an example.
The author argues against using shallow rendering for React component testing, explaining its pitfalls and advocating for better alternatives.
A guide on achieving test isolation in React components to improve test reliability and prevent shared mutable state issues.
An explanation of JSX in React, showing how it compiles to JavaScript and React.createElement calls.
A guide to automating the deployment of a static website to Azure Storage using AppVeyor CI, covering setup and configuration steps.
A guide to configuring options for PowerShell Scheduled Jobs, covering defaults, hash tables, and updating settings.
A guide to using C-Reduce, a tool for automatically reducing complex C programs to minimal test cases to isolate bugs.
An introduction to Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), explaining their benefits like performance, reliability, and offline capabilities.
A technical guide explaining the Terraform cidrsubnet() function for subnet calculation, with examples and use cases.
