Any software developer knows that good code doesn’t get written right the first time, and when unexpected behavior occurs eyeballing the code or even using print statements can end up falling short. This year at PyCon, I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Clayton Parker about an »
ORM or Object Relational Mapping give developers easy access to the database by connecting objects to database tables. ORMs are easy to use and set up, but can cause performance problems for complex queries. Here are a few tips on when to use the ORM and when not to: To »
In addition to being a top choice for enterprise search, Elasticsearch is also growing in popularity as an all-purpose datastore. It’s easy to scale, it’s extremely fast, and it can be accessed via a RESTful API. Because the documentation can be difficult to maneuver, there are a number »
Introduction What is AutoFac? The principle of Dependency Inversion states that you should rely on abstractions instead of concretions. It leads to code that is more scalable, testable, and maintainable because it allows us to quickly and easily swap out implementations (examples of this concept are in the following sections) »
So you think your application is safe… No matter how much effort you’ve put into writing secure code, critical security flaws can still find their way into your project through its dependencies. Today, an average of 80% of a new application’s code is comprised of third-party libraries and »
Highlights and key takeaways from Microsoft BUILD 2015 Keynote. Read the live blog. Live Blog /**/ **14.34** #bldwin #Build2015 that’s a warp with some orchestral music. Thanks @duluca @sahllt @wynv **14.27** Holographic pathfinding . During the presentation he touched on the topic of generators, and one of his statements appealed to me: Instead of “why are you using generators?” we should be asking “why »
Reflection is an API that allows its user to view and access all properties, fields, constructors, methods, and metadata for any class supplied to it at runtime (as opposed to compile time). Among other things, Reflection also allows its consumer to call these methods as well as get or set »
