Being Cellfish

While I haven't been coding in C# for about a year now I couldn't resist reading this recent article . A nice write-up where I only ...

Wow, I was apparently very busy blogging in October 2008 . While there are some things that I will not cover below that might be worth readi...

When I first started to learn Go a few months ago I compared a lot of things to things that was familiar to me; C#. And I decided to make a...

A couple of years ago it was very easy to DoS attack .Net web services as the headers were added to a dictionary. Back then the hash of the ...

You should know that whenever you get an IEnumerable you should only enumerate it twice as some implementations don't allow you to enum...

I stumbled upon this article with "best practices" for writing your own LINQ extension methods.

Almost 2 years ago I wrote about this problem with accessing data from Azure and returning it in a LINQ friendly way. Well not long ago the ...

When people work with the Dictionary class in .Net there are two common assumptions that I see used a lot. Worst part is that these assumpt...

One question that comes up quite often is if you should always use async/await or not. Sadly enough the answer is not simple because there ...

I try to live by the motto; starting the debugger is a failure when it comes to code I write. That means that through logging and just read...

Most people I've worked with that needed a collection of some sort have implemented the collection by inheriting from one of the standar...

I just wanted to let you know that I got a good idea and renamed the NoMemoryStream .

The say there are two hard problems in computer science; cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors . Hence I can proudly prese...

So this is not about catching the base exception but something kind of like using tuples ; having an exception template using generics .

Recently when I was experimenting with Spark and Scala I encountered two patterns that I liked; Tap and Hydrate. So I decided to add them ...

I was reading this article which is a response to an email from a person liking mocks but disliking spies. Before starting to read I was co...

I once was working with a company that complained that my code was not optimized because it used 100% of the CPU . So I asked if the user in...

Ever since async/await was introduced in .net 4.5 I've seen people happily using those keywords in their (unit) tests. A usage I believe...

Anybody who is practicing TDD or BDD knows that it is important to abstract dependencies. Especially external dependencies you have no contr...

I've seen people use the Tuple class in C# code and I've even done it myself once. And I didn't like it. I'm still strugglin...