Christopher C. Johnson articles - 23 total
Fluent Assertions 8: Corporate License Update
In the ever-changing world of .NET development, testing frameworks are vital in ensuring code quality...
Building a Real-Time Santa's Workshop Tracker with SignalR and .NET 9
This blog post is part of the 2024 C# Advent Calendar. Go check out the other 49 great posts after...
Building a Real-Time IoT Dashboard with HarperDB and Node.js
Welcome to an exciting journey into the world of real-time data with HarperDB and Node.js! Imagine...
Navigating the World of Distractions
The Challenge of Distractions: Understanding the Modern-Day Hurdles Common Distractions: Identifying...
Terraform's License Change: A Deep Dive into the Controversy
The License Change Why the Change? Community Backlash The Broader Implications Closing the...
Understanding Developer Burnout: Causes, Impact, and Solutions
Why Developers Burn Out: Burnout in the Age of COVID-19: Burnout and Privilege: Impact of Burnout on...
The New Era of C# Learning: Microsoft's Foundational C# Certification with freeCodeCamp
What is the Foundational C# Certification? Why Pursue This Certification? Features of the...
The Art of Randomness in .NET 8: New Methods and Techniques
Traditional Randomness in .NET: The Old Ways .NET 8's Approach to Randomness: The New...
Setting up SSH Keys for GitHub using WSL and Keychain
SSH keys are a secure and convenient way to authenticate with remote servers and services. This blog...
Web Scraping and Generating PDFs Using C# and .NET
This blog post is part of the 2022 C# Advent Calendar. Go check out the other 49 great posts after...
Using DateOnly and TimeOnly in .NET 6 to Simplify Your Code
Image by Falco This blog post is part of the 2021 C# Advent Calendar. Go check out the other 49...
My Goals and Systems for 2021
Image by Lisa Fotios Oh, look, another blog post about me. I know, I know, most of the posts lately...
Moving Forward Into 2021
Image by Pixabay (No, really) I'm finished with focusing solely on goals. At the beginning of every...
Don't Worry About What Others Think: Coming Out of the Closet
Image via Jose Pablo Garcia I've spent most of my professional life worrying about how I present mys...
Giving Away Interview Cake Subscriptions!
Image via FreeStocks All you have to do to enter is reply to this tweet. Please read all of my repli...
Ethics in Programming: The Project I Refused
Image by Andrea Piacquadio From time to time you hear people in the developer community talk about h...
Reorganizing My Digital Workspace
Image by fulopszokemariann I recently came across a tweet by Kyle Shook that simply read What is you...
The Road Map: 2020
Image by Hello I'm Nik 🇬🇧 Like I talked about in my last post I decided not to set resolutions for t...
Codelens in Visual Studio Community Edition
One of my favorite things in Visual Studio has always been CodeLens. It's this beautiful little featu...
Looking to the Future; My 2020
In the latter part of 2019, I hit a serious roadblock. The company I was contracting for seemingly ran out of funds and waited until the end of October to tell me that I wouldn't be receiving a paycheck until sometime in early 2020. This came as an extreme shock to me as I'd been working with them since June and everything had seemed fine.
What makes for good software documentation?
Can you point out an open source project that has ideal documentation or give examples as to what you...
Automating My Work Environment
It’s company policy to restart your computer before you leave work. Why? I imagine an effort to help...
Which qualities or skills define a Sr. Developer?
Trying to crowdsource a definition of a Sr. Developer