Because legacy system modernization projects tend to be the exception rather than the norm, most people have a limited amount of experience with them. It’s not hard to imagine the result—many of the modernization-specific pitfalls are easy to overlook. Not only is the...
You may be guilty of taking strings for granted. They’re baked into the framework as a built-in type, and since almost every codebase uses them they tend to just fade into the background. Throughout the years, though, I’ve seen people new to C# use strings in several...
There are times in code when you need to return the results of an operation, but aren’t using a transport mechanism like HTTP that gives you a data structure with built-in statuses. In these situations, a lightweight OpResult class can be really helpful. The original...
On any software team, the Technical Lead (TL) has a crucial role to play: This person functions as a leader and coordinator of the developers, as well as a point of contact with the business or management. Obviously, the capability of your TL will greatly affect the...
Custom manufacturing is an attractive business to be in, whether you’re founding a manufacturing startup or expanding a mass production factory into the personalization market. Mass customization of products—like items engraved with customer-specified text or a...
