Geoff Mazeroff

.NET The Only Type of Testing You Need (Nick Chapsas) Always Return Early in Your Code | Code Cop #024 (via Nick Chapsas) Returning early to avoid unnecessary nesting is fine. Nick had an issue with how the provider of…

.NET Stop Using AutoMapper in .NET (via Nick Chapsas) The primary argument is that if things aren’t set up correctly, you don’t know at compile time. Unit tests should never mock the AutoMapper; use the real mapper. Mapperly is an…

.NET How to Measure Time Correctly in .NET (via Nick Chapsas) The Best Way to Work with Units in .NET (via Nick Chapas)

.NET You’re Doing Validation Wrong in .NET – Code Cop #023 (via Nick Chapsas) The two types of validation considered were (1) method that returns bool if valid, and (2) method that returns IEnumerable<string> with the list of errors. Nick’s…

.NET The Alternative to Deleting Data in .NET (via Nick Chapsas) Should You Use Controllers or Minimal APIs in. NET? (via Nick Chapsas) Leadership Stop Ignoring Your High Performers (via HBR) Productivity How to Manage – and Avoid – Mental…

AI Two Computer Scientists Debunk A.I. Hype with Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor (via Adam Conover) This was an informative podcast on why there is so much hype around AI. There are too many details to list here, but some…

.NET Testing in .NET is About to Change (via Nick Chapsas) LINQ’s INSANE Improvements in .NET 9 (via Nick Chapsas) Stop Using Booleans in Your Code! | Code Cop #022 (via Nick Chapsas)

.NET Stop Dealing with EF Core Exceptions Wrong! (via Nick Chapsas) If constraints aren’t met (e.g., max length, uniqueness), EF Core throws a DBUpdateException, which tells you very little about the specific problem. The current solution is to follow inner…