.NET The Best .NET Mapper to Use in 2023 (via Nick Chapsas) The Problem with Time that .NET 8 Finally Fixed (via Nick Chapsas) Culture Beware a Culture of Busyness (via HBR) How to Tell If a Potential Employer Has…
Tamiya Mazda MX-5 – Steps 9 and 10
These two steps were about the seats and interior door panels. Here are the two galleries: I tried two different types of masking for the seats (flat black vs. semi-gloss black). The easiest approach was wide masking tape and trimming…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 12
.NET The Switch Keyword in C# is a LIE! (via Nick Chapsas) Technology The New GitHub Copilot X Powered by GPT-4 is Here! (via Nick Chapsas)
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 11
.NET The Easiest Way to Create Serverless APIs in .NET (via Nick Chapsas) From Zero to Hero: Unit Testing in C# This video training course explains what unit testing is, the fundamentals, techniques, concepts, hands-on examples, and advanced techniques. The…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 10
.NET The Awesome New Queue of .NET 6 That You Skipped (via Nick Chapsas) There’s a PriorityQueue<T, TPriority> type now. The caveat is that you cannot guarantee order within a given priority; only that things are dequeued correctly for their…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 9
.NET Random Finally Gets Its Missing Methods in .NET 8 (via Nick Chapsas) Currently .NET has Random.Shared for non-critical random numbers, and RandomNumberGenerator for secure operations. The latter is about 7x slower. .NET 8 brings in Random.Shared.Shuffle() and Random.Shared.GetItems(source, number…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 8
.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…