by Hari Wiguna | Jul 20, 2017 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
AppSettings in app.config is great for making your app configurable without having to recompile it. You specify a key to get a value to avoid hardcoding configurations. There are two advantages to creating your own custom configuration over basic appSettings:...
by Hari Wiguna | Jun 7, 2017 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
LINQ is awesome! It allows you to write very concise and easy to understand queries. However, it also hides the actual queries, which can make debugging a bit more difficult. I recently experienced this firsthand when I had to debug a LINQ statement that I didn’t...
by Hari Wiguna | Aug 3, 2016 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
I’ve always wanted to write a blog post containing my favorite Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts. However, this guy beat me to it. But that’s okay because I learned a few tricks that I didn’t know. Of course there many useful shortcuts than the six he...
by Hari Wiguna | Mar 16, 2016 | Leadership, Software Engineering
You may have seen this video of the marble music machine and thought, “Wow, that’s pretty cool.” I sure did. As a maker, I was probably more impressed because I recognized the complexities involved and imagined many of the issues he overcame to make it work. Or so I...