.NET Core
Since the beginning of time .NET Core there has been one continuous annoyance about developing cross-platform solutions, including build scripts for windows and non-windows platforms. We have at least fallen into a standard pattern, most repositories will contain both a build.cmd and build.sh that will build the project
Docker
Ah, a new open source project that looks interesting. Let's pull it down from GitHub, open it up in the IDE of our choice and.... Oh... It turns out the build scripts assume you have some build tool already installed or, even worse, a specific version of it.
JavaScript
.NET Core
Publishing a .NET Core application as a single executable file, and keeping it as small as possible
F#
Recently I decided to implement a chess engine as a way to explore building a rules engine in F# GitHub link: https://github.com/simon-reynolds/FsChess F# was my choice of language as it has a number of advantages. For instance, defining the pieces is a lot simpler thanks to
Continuous Integration
When npm install is taking too long on your build server, npm ci may be jut the command you need
Git
Fetch pending changes for all git repositories in a directory using PowerShell
C#
One of biggest trends in the last few years is functional programming, once again proving that fashion goes in circles. Immutability is a central tenet of functional programming, the idea is that variables are not variable, once an object is created it does not change. If you need to modify
F#
While porting some C# to F# recently I got sick of rewriting ternary operators like this var result = condition ? "True Branch" : "False Branch"; into a form like this let result = if condition then "True Branch" else "False Branch" or let result = match
JavaScript
You've got some javascript you want to refactor so you open Visual Studio Code and get cracking. But since you've decided to write it in plain javascript it's an untyped mess. You look at that property you just renamed, are you sure you found
Entity Framework
Updating Nuget packages should be simple. Sometimes you get version errors or a TargetInvocationException at runtime for no clear reason
Git
GitHub has a lot of neat features but this has to be my new favourite one. If you're looking at a pull request, example at https://github.com/simon-reynolds/url-magic/pull/1 you can quickly view the diff by going to https://github.com/simon-reynolds/url-magic/pull/1.