David Haney - Blogging About .NET Core & Engineering Management

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” - Arthur C.

Have you heard the news?

Recently in CodeSession I encountered the following logged warning: No XML encryptor configured.

It’s amazing how quickly 4 years can go by.

Hi, I’m David Haney.

Well, once again I’ve fallen off of the blogging wagon.

Sabbatical week one is complete, and I’m finally finding some time to blog about it!

One of the most amazing perks of working at Stack Overflow is the sabbatical.

In this post I’d like to show you how I ported an Azure Classic Cloud Service application (which cost me $16 USD a month by the way) to a .NET Core Azure Function, and now host it in Azure for $0 a month!

It’s been a while since I changed things up, so I decided on a new Twitter handle and blog domain.

A few weeks back I wrote this tweet: I did a presentation / speaking thing last week that got me thinking: would it be useful to blog about how to build a resume as someone new to tech, from the perspective of a hiring manager?

Well I failed badly in my mission to blog every week of 2017.

This post is for those of you who hire developers, and also junior developers who want to be hired.

In case you missed the big news in the industry this week, a GitLab employee accidentally deleted a ton of production data and took their platform down for hours.

In part 2 of my series on dev team interactions, I’d like to talk about conducting good code reviews.

As a developer working for a company, you probably work on a team.

If you’re working on an application built using ASP.NET MVC, you’re hopefully aware of the OutputCacheAttribute attribute which can be used to statically cache your dynamic web pages.

Well, I’ve utterly failed to blog at regular intervals, writing only three posts in 2016.

On Plumbers Picture this situation: you woke up this morning to find that there’s no water coming through your valves and taps.

Intro Okay developers, time to have a serious talk.

Are Developers Good Negotiators?

Background I’m going to discuss an important topic that affects everybody in tech: diversity.

In February of 2015, I was promoted to Engineering Manager at Stack Overflow.

I was working on my fireplace this past weekend.

Today an article was brought to my attention.

A Job Listing Let’s say you were walking down a street one day and noticed an ad for help wanted.

Intro We’re just two days from a brand new year and yet the primary measurement of a developer’s skill seems to be the same as it was 20 years ago.

Intro I’ve had a good career so far.

Intro Like many of you, today I watched the Apple media event in which they announced both the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch.

Intro Almost exactly 1 month ago today I found myself on a video call with Joel Spolsky.

The Problem I think that most devs would agree when I state that the definition of success in the corporate world of development places less emphasis on “good” code and more emphasis on “working” code.

Intro Node.js – it has rapidly become the “new hotness” in the tech start-up realm.

It looks as if the Visual Studio dev team may be implementing a new operator in a future .NET release.

I recently came across an ASP.NET MVC issue at work where the validation for my Model was not firing correctly.

Jonathan Allen of InfoQ conducted an interview with me about one of my open source initiatives, SimplSockets.

MVC4 made one simple and yet awesome improvement to View rendering that I don’t think many people are aware of.

The T4 template engine is insanely powerful.

If you’re using the Web API as part of the MVC4 framework, you may encounter a scenario in which you must map parameters of strange names to variables for which characters of the name would be illegal.

Have you ever had to write a comparer for a specific type, only to be frustrated when you needed to write a second and third comparer for other types?

I wanted to point people to this link at DotNetPearls: http://www.dotnetperls.com/binarysearch They do an excellent, quick demonstration of List<T>.BinarySearch and show a graph that really drives home how much faster it is for large lists than a regular…

One of the many things that I do at work is run a full-blown Search Engine which I also developed from scratch.

In the interest of self-improvement and sharing knowledge, I felt that I should share an update to my last post.

I recently had a need, in an ASP.NET MVC3 application, to read raw HTML, CSS, JS, and image files from disk and return them to the user… A sort of “pass-through” if you will.

As of today I’ve been published in an e-Book offered for free by Red Gate!

Most of us have been there: you’ve written a fantastic application that performs perfectly in your Development and/or QA environments, but in Production something goes wrong.

So, this post is about our beloved IDE instead of actual code.

A friend of mine commented on my last post asking about how much faster the static string.Equals method is than the instance string.Equals method.

As you may or may not know, static methods are usually faster than instance methods.

Well, it’s been nearly 2 months since my last post… I’m learning that if you want a blog to be successful, you have to carve time out of your busy life and make it happen.

This isn’t a very technical post, but I was published by Microsoft recently via their MSDN UK Blog!