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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.

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.

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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… Read More »Using IHost .net core console applications

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.

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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… Read More »Basic Git commands you need to know

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.

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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… Read More »How to install Virtual Box 5.2 ubuntu 16.04

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

Using the Repository and Unit Of Work Pattern in .net core

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.

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A typical software application will invariably need to access some kind of data store in order to carry typical CRUD (Create, Read Update, Delete) operations… Read More »Using the Repository and Unit Of Work Pattern in .net core

Happy 3rd Blog Birthday

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.

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It’s the time of year when I normally take time to reflect on the year that has passed, and then plan for the next year… Read More »Happy 3rd Blog Birthday

Manage Project and Package References with .net CLI

Learning how to use the .net Core CLI is helpful when learning to manage and edit .net core based applications across different operating systems. In this article we take a look at how easy it is to Manage and Edit project and package references making use of the .net CLI

Get All C# Classes Implementing an Interface

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.

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There may be instances in software applications, whereby there is a requirement to get a list classes in an application that implement a specific interface… Read More »Get All C# Classes Implementing an Interface