.NET The Best Way to Validate Your Settings in .NET (via Nick Chapsas) Nick goes into how to create and interact with application settings/options, then shows the problem with options being validated much later than expected. There is a ValidateOnStart…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 7
.NET You Completely Misunderstand How Strings Work in C# (via Nick Chapsas) Leadership The Power of Options (via HBR) When faced with a crisis or opportunity, most leaders fall back on their default style. However, each situation is nuanced, such…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 6
Change management Getting Employee Buy-In for Organizational Change (via HBR) Stress management The Hidden Toll of Microstress (via HBR) There’s a lot to this article to unpack. Our bodies and minds do fairly well when dealing with major stressors that…
Tamiya Mazda MX-5 – Step 9
This step was about the interior cabin. Here’s the gallery with 18 images of this step. For me the real star of the show was the black embossing powder on top of the Pledge Revive-it (floor wax). It gives some…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 5
.NET The New Constructor Type Coming in C# 12 (via Nick Chapsas) This is a tentative feature where you declare the class and constructor together — public User(string firstName, string lastName). Currently the auto-generated properties are public, and you can’t…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 4
.NET Double the Performance of Your Dictionary in C# (via Nick Chapsas) Many times we need to check if something is already in the dictionary before adding it. The issue is that you need to do one lookup to see…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 3
.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,…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 2
.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…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 1
.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…
Tamiya Mazda MX-5 – Step 8
This step was about the dashboard details. Here’s the gallery with 18 images of this step. The trickiest part of this step was how small everything was. When the decals are only a few millimeters wide, sliding them off means…