For a long time, I’ve believed that diagnostic skills are incredibly important for software engineers, and often poorly understood. The main evidence I see of poor diagnostic skills is on Stack Overflow: “I have a program that does 10 things, and the output isn’t right. Please fix.” “I can’t post a short but complete program, … Continue reading Diagnostics everywhere! →

This is just a brief post that I’m hoping may help some people migrate to use .NET Core 2.0 SDK on Travis. TL;DR: see the end of the post for a sample configuration. Yesterday (August 15th), .NET Core 2.0 was fully released. Wonderfully, Travis already supports it. You just need dotnet: 2.0.0 in your YAML … Continue reading Using .NET Core 2.0 SDK on Travis →

I’ve got a few speaking engagements coming up that I thought it might be worth publicising a bit further. They’re all within just over a week of each other, which is going to be somewhat tiring, but… Here they are, in chronological order: Progressive .NET 2017 Progressive .NET 2017 will be held on September 13th-15th … Continue reading Upcoming speaking engagements →

9 days ago, I posted Imposter Syndrome (part 1) and then immediately listened to Heather Downing‘s excellent NDC talk on the topic. This is the “reflections afterwards” post I’d expected to write (although slightly more delayed than I’d hoped for). I’m not going to try to recap Heather’s talk, because that wouldn’t do justice to … Continue reading Imposter Syndrome (part 2) →

Note: this is a purely personal post. It has no code in. It’s related to the coding side of my world more than the rest of who I am, so it’s in my coding blog, but if you’re looking for code, just move on. As part of a Twitter exchange, I discovered that Heather Downing … Continue reading Imposter syndrome (part 1) →