Masking Console Password in .NET I pieced this together to mask some console input when a user needed to enter a password. Simple, but not meant to be secure as it still uses string. Based on this stackoverflow
Extensibility In Message Based Systems With NServiceBus One of my favorite things about message based systems is the natural points of extensibility you can gain. Though, you don't get it for free if you aren't setting yourself up for it.
NHDNUG May 2016 This is for the talk I gave at the North Houston .NET User Group in May titled "Going Distributed with NServiceBus". Here are the slides for the NSB Talk. Here's the
Software won't be my legacy I use to think the most important thing I could do as a developer was write code that made a difference; that somehow my code would impact the lives of people in some
mdd Mistake Driven Development - Estimations Mistake Driven Development, or MDD (because we need another TLA in our lives), is my thought process on how I grow as a human both personally and professionally. The basic idea is that
softskills Starting a Major Refactoring By Refactoring Myself A few months ago, I started with Clear Measure and joined a project as the team lead. The project had been started about 2 years earlier, so it was not the elusive greenfield
Click Jacking TL;DR### Scroll down to the bottom for a github repo and a list of links to see the code in action. It's pretty slick### I get a little too excited, and paranoid,
Multiple NSB Hosts with RavenDB At my current client, we've been using a bus in our app since day one. For the most part, the bus was a simple in process, synchronous bus that was developed in house.
Learning to be a Mentor Before I was a titled developer, I would spend my off hours working on small applications to help me and other departments in my office work more effectively. After year or so of
Dell Technical Debt Presentation Here's the slide deck I used for the Technical Debt presentation at Dell's "Agile City Limits" conference.
Dell TDD Presentation Here's the deck I used for the TDD presentation at the Dell Agile Conference. Here's a link to the repo for the code that was used.
Prevent MVC From Serving Mobile Pages My client brought in a mobile site developer to "mobilize" our project. So to start, he used the built-in features of MVC to switch between mobile ndain desktop. This means he
Creating MVC Themes During my last sprint, one of the stories we committed to was the ability to create "themes" in our site. As a team, we estimated this a relatively high point value.
Houston Techfest Presentations So, I'm a little late in uploading these, but here are the PDF's of my presentations. CSS Positioning CSS3 JavaScript Libraries
Capturing Parameters with Rhino Mock The Setup When writing tests, using a mock framework helps with isolating the exact code or functionality you want to test. I've been using RhinoMocks at my current client and like it. However,
CSS Architecture I recently watched a great talk by Anthony van der Horn over what he calls bringing SOLID into CSS and JavaScript. In the video, Anthony talks about a great method for creating maintainble
Flushing Chrome DNS Cache TL;DR? Go straight to the bottom for the meat. After moving my blog over to Ghost, I decided to signup for a free CloudFlare account and put the blog behind it. I
Using Ghost I've moved my blog over to the Ghost platform so images and formatting may not be right as I migrate them over. I'm also missing posts, but I'll get that fixed soon.
Creating Storage fast with Azure Blob Storage Picture this: it's Friday night. The wife has gone back to East Texas to visit some friends and I am all alone in the house with a couple of beers and a lot
Registering the same implementation twice Ran into an issue today with Castle Windsor. For my current project, we use Castle Windsor to manage and inject our dependencies. It's a very powerful library that makes dependency injection a freaking
Add Jira Issue ID With PowerShell Git At my current client, we use Scrum to help us manage our development process. One of my favorite tenants of Scrum is self organizing teams. During our sprint retrospective last week, our team
Simple Fluent API Example The Goal - A Fluent API Example Skip to the goods - here's the code on github.com A few weeks ago, a buddy at work and I decided to try writing a
Content Security Policy Header 101 Let's say you are developing a website. As a security minded individual, you take care in protecting against malicious scripts being injected into your site by evil-doers. You implement security code reviews to
Web security headers you should be thinking about - HSTS Your website really isn't 'secure', though you probably know this. As a developer or product owner, you know the real idea behind web security is to only make it hard enough for an