Geoff Mazeroff

.NET The New Built-in Guard Clauses Coming in .NET 8 (via Nick Chapsas) We already have things like ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(…) and ArgumentException.ThrowIfNullOrEmpty(string s). In .NET 8, ArgumentOutOfRangeException may potentially get methods to check for zero, negative, negative or zero, greater than,…

.NET Implementing Modern API Versioning in .NET (via Nick Chapsas) Career How to Answer “Tell Me About a Time You Failed” in a Job Interview (via HBR) This question is more about what you learned and how you prevailed. This…

.NET When readonly Isn’t’ readonly in C# (via Nick Chapsas) Business How to Motivate a Top Performer — When You Can’t Promote Them (via HBR) This boils down to understanding what the employee desires, given there may be business constraints…

.NET Getting C# Code Metadata That Reflection Can’t Get (via Nick Chapsas) Is Dynamic in C# Really Slow? (via Nick Chapsas) Nick compares dynamic instances, ExpandoObject instances, and reflection. In most cases, try to avoid all three of these for…

.NET Validate your dependencies correctly in .NET (via Nick Chapsas) Nick demonstrates an example of a runtime exception being thrown because a dependency wasn’t registered in the DI container. He then uses some interesting setup to get access to an…

.NET Are You Using the Stopwatch Efficiently in .NET 7? (via Nick Chapsas) What are frozen collections coming in .NET? (via Nick Chapsas) Leadership How Leaders Should Handle Public Criticism (via HBR)

.NET The weirdest way to loop in C# is also the fastest (via Nick Chapsas) Nick breaks down the performance if for, foreach, looping over a Span, and then using the Unsafe.Add() method. The magic is because Spans are blocks…

Agile The Five P’s of Agility (via SWLW) Leadership How to Be a Good Leader in a Bad Economy (via HBR) “The potential of a recession on the heels of the Covid-19 pandemic means that the usual strategies for managing…

.NET Every single feature added in C# 11 (via Nick Chapsas) This ~30-minute video outlines all the new features in C# 11 with interactive examples. The C# keyword you can ONLY use in LINQ, but carefully (via Nick Chapsas) The…

Managing people 6 Ways to Reenergize a Depleted Team (via HBR) Mental health How to Respond When an Employee Shares a Mental Health Challenge (via HBR) Operations What Really Makes Toyota’s Production System Resilient (via HBR) Values What Does Your…