I don't do a lot of exception handling. I write code that avoids it as best as it can. The edges of my systems are out of my control. The edges of my system do throw exceptions. If I can't do the correct thing for the exception, I bubble the…
I'm working on re-writing MTG Discovery and doing all of the infrastructure through Azure PowerShell. It's great... I like it... but fuck... If I'd known how much friction I'd run into for various bits, I'd have gone with using the Azure CLI. I don't want to bash on the product,…
I did a twitter where I mentioned I'd updated my IMock packages. These are for Nuget and ReSharper. What the fuck is IMock? First - Rude. I wrote about it a couple years ago when I did an IMock Announcement. Which... on review... I dropped the fucking ball. I didn't…
Another quickie post. As I'm working through powershell for my IaC I saw that AppConfig can access secrets stored in KeyVault. This means I get to put my secrets into a keyvault... and then just reference the keyvault! It's like the AppSettings can reference keyvault. This should be pretty sweet.…
With my original Mtg Discovery site (mtgdiscovery.com) I looked into using Azure B2C for auth... HAHAHAHA... No. It was faster/easier to roll my own JWT creation/validation. Pretty messed up when roll your own is easier. I'm creating V2 of the site. That's what we do. Second time…
Today I was introduced to a new kata - The Expense Report! https://github.com/christianhujer/expensereport Being in the corporate world, sounds like a good kata to give a go. I'll be doing it in C#, shocker, I know. The process of the kata is laid out as follow…
Still Green; Keep Refactoring Let's take another look at Money; there's eight methods. Five of these methods delegate the work to another object, "I know what I want, you know how to do it". The remaining three don't. To make "Similar things more similar" we have to consider refactoring these…
GET TO THE PRIMITIVE While we very much want to avoid data flowing through our system, sometimes we need them. Sometimes we have to get back to a primitive type. This happens at the boundaries of our system. When our code passes to some other code, we probably have to…
