I regularly teach courses on basic object-oriented design patterns. Over the years I have come to realize that not every pattern is equally useful or equally well-thought out. One of the most common examples of…
As a teacher, I'm constantly faced with a frustrating challenge: eliminating boilerplate code from demos. If students have to type a lot of boilerplate code before starting a demo together or an exercise, valuable time…
C# 7.3 came out not long ago. I just had the time to do the update, so I thought I would do a post on it. There are a lot of other posts around…
I've found an old HDD of mine and I got curious: what's on it? I had an old 3,5" HDD to USB adapter lying around and to my surprise, it was still working…
A while back I found a question on SO about returning a reference to a dictionary value. Here's the code sample from the question that also explains the question itself: public class PropertyManager { private Dictionary&…