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If you didn’t know that C# spell check was a thing, it is.  For one thing, you can run a normal spelling analysis on any comments in your code.  That shouldn’t surprise.  But you can also check the code itself for spelling errors. That may seem like a strange thing at first.  Wouldn’t a C#... The post How C# Spell Check Helps ...

For the last several years, I've made more and more of my living via entrepreneurial pursuits.  I started my career as a software developer and then worked my way along that career path before leaving fulltime employment to do my own thing.  These days, I consult, but I also make training content, write books, and offer ...

If you haven't lived in a techie cave the last 10 years, you've probably noticed JavaScript's rise to prominence.  Actually, forget prominence.  JavaScript has risen to command consideration as today's lingua franca of modern software development. I find it sort of surreal to contemplate that, given my own backstory.  ...

If you spend enough years writing software, sooner or later, your chosen vocation will force you into reverse engineering.  Some weird API method with an inscrutable name will stymie you.  And you'll have to plug in random inputs and examine the outputs to figure out what it does. Clearly, this wastes your time.  Even if ...

Before I get down to the brass tacks of how to do some interesting stuff, I'm going to spin a tale of woe.  Well, I might have phrased that a little strongly.  Call it a tale of corporate drudgery. In any case, many years ago I worked briefly in a little department, at a little company that seemed to be a corporate drudgery ...

Think back to college (or high school, if applicable).  Do you remember that kid that would sit near the front of the class and gleefully point out that the professor had accidentally omitted an apostrophe when writing notes on the white board?  Didn't you just love that kid?  Yeah, me neither. Fate imbues a small ...

Notwithstanding some oddball calculator and hobby PC hacking, my first serious programming experience came in college.  A course called ''Intro to C++'' got us acquainted with arrays, loops, data structures and the like.  Given its introductory nature, this class did not pose a particularly serious challenge (that would come ...