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Category archives: General
Book Review : The 4 Hour Work Week
This book should be compulsory reading for anyone who would like to open their minds to alternative approaches to making a living.
Happy 4th Blog Birthday – A blogging year in review
Taking time to reflect on the progress of my blog over the past year and also highlight some of the plans, ambitions and objectives I have for the forthcoming year!
Getting started with .NET Core and the Serverless Framework
Serverless framework is a cloud provider agnostic toolkit designed to aid operations around building, managing and deploying serverless components for either full-blown serverless architectures or disparate functions as a service.
How to use the Abstract Factory design pattern in C#
Learn how to use the Abstract Factory .NET Design Pattern C# in order to help improve and enhance your code for greater testability.
Book Review : Adaptive Code
This is one of the most helpful software engineering books I’ve ever read. It is most useful for people who have some real world experience in .NET development.
How to use Factory Method Design Pattern in C#
Factory Pattern creates objects, in this post we will implement the factory design pattern in a C# application. Using the Factory pattern, we develop an abstraction that isolates the logic for determining which type of class to create.
Book Review : Clean Code
There is a minimum expectation that, if you are a software developer, irrespective of programming language or discipline that you have actually read this book, at least more than twice! This book should be compulsory reading for anyone, working with code in any capacity.
What is Clean Code ?
Clean code and the practices are about eliminating or at least attempting to reduce complexity. Although clean code solutions may seem elegant and efficient, they are not always easy and are often the direct result of combating complexity!
Book Review : The art of unit testing
The book is a perfect guide into learning and understanding the topic, irrespective if you’re a C# developer or not. The code samples may be in C#, but the reality is the concepts and implementation are the same in any language.
How to reverse engineer MySql Database EF Core
Details on how to reverse engineer a MySql database using EF Core and resolve exceptions generated.
Using IHost .net core console applications
Gary Woodfine
Freelance Full Stack Developer at threenine.co.uk
Helps businesses by improving their technical proficiencies and eliminating waste from the software development pipelines.
A unique background as business owner, marketing, software development and business development ensures that he can offer the optimum business consultancy services across a wide spectrum of business challenges.
A unique background as business owner, marketing, software development and business development ensures that he can offer the optimum business consultancy services across a wide spectrum of business challenges.
Latest posts by Gary Woodfine (see all)
- Book Review: Java by Comparison - Jan 7, 2019
- Book Review : The 4 Hour Work Week - Dec 28, 2018
- Happy 4th Blog Birthday – A blogging year in review - Dec 6, 2018
In a previous post, I discussed how we can use Configuration API in .net core console application to retrieve custom configuration settings from a Json file, utilising a convenient feature of the Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration namespace.In this post, I will provide an example of how to develop .NET Core console applications using IHost, generic interface to develop headless […]
Book Review : Code Complete
An essential book for software developers of all levels, programming languages and platforms.
How to use Configuration API in .net core console application
how to use the Configuration API in .net core to access configuration data in Console Applications.
Using Gulp to automate the boring stuff
Quick tips on how to use gulp to automate common development workflow tasks.
Basic Git commands you need to know
Gary Woodfine
Freelance Full Stack Developer at threenine.co.uk
Helps businesses by improving their technical proficiencies and eliminating waste from the software development pipelines.
A unique background as business owner, marketing, software development and business development ensures that he can offer the optimum business consultancy services across a wide spectrum of business challenges.
A unique background as business owner, marketing, software development and business development ensures that he can offer the optimum business consultancy services across a wide spectrum of business challenges.
Latest posts by Gary Woodfine (see all)
- Book Review: Java by Comparison - Jan 7, 2019
- Book Review : The 4 Hour Work Week - Dec 28, 2018
- Happy 4th Blog Birthday – A blogging year in review - Dec 6, 2018
The usage of Git as a primary Source Code Control is ever increasing and with Microsoft purchasing GitHub this is only set to increase. Personally I have been using Git and Github for a few years now, and it has become my number one choice in Source Code Repository and Version Control System (VCS). Compared […]
Book Review : Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
catalogs a collection of software design patterns commonly used when developing enterprise software applications
How to install Virtual Box 5.2 ubuntu 16.04
Gary Woodfine
Freelance Full Stack Developer at threenine.co.uk
Helps businesses by improving their technical proficiencies and eliminating waste from the software development pipelines.
A unique background as business owner, marketing, software development and business development ensures that he can offer the optimum business consultancy services across a wide spectrum of business challenges.
A unique background as business owner, marketing, software development and business development ensures that he can offer the optimum business consultancy services across a wide spectrum of business challenges.
Latest posts by Gary Woodfine (see all)
- Book Review: Java by Comparison - Jan 7, 2019
- Book Review : The 4 Hour Work Week - Dec 28, 2018
- Happy 4th Blog Birthday – A blogging year in review - Dec 6, 2018
I am predominantly a Linux and MacOS in my home office and usually make use of Windows Virtual Machines for my Windows based development. I have always made use of Oracle VM VirtualBox over the years. I recently ran into an issue whereby Windows 10 VMS just wouldn’t update. They would download the update which […]
Change Thunderbird to a dark theme
how to implement a dark theme for the thunderbird email client on ubuntu
Create nuget package .net core
Tutorial on how to create a NuGet package using the .NET Core CLI, and then publish their NuGet package to the nuget.org site, including how to set up a CI/CD pipeline