Hello readers, Last Update: January 2025 – updated link to gist Why no more GUIs? I spent a significant amount of time using GUIs like GitKraken and SourceTree. They are powerful tools. I found that using the Terminal offers a more efficient and flexible way to execute Git operations overall. Why the switch? Good question. […]
Hi readers, Why should we focus on our soft skills? As you may very well know, we, software developers, tend to spend most, if not, our entire time focused on developing technical skills. While we should not aim to be perfect across the board, we’d be better off reeling it in a bit. It can […]
Hi readers, So big news! Last month, I left my previous employer (Hypertherm) and started a new job this month at Divisions Maintenance Group as a Sr. software engineer. As it is fresh in my memory and that I am still being onboarded, I would like to share what I’ve been doing/planning on doing at […]
Hi, So I stumbled into this amazing gem and also this one! Seriously, go check those ASAP 😀 They’ll provide free courses made available by universities and I’ve found so many that I want to do, but I’ll have to restrict myself otherwise I won’t find the time to do them all but here’s a […]
Hi, Last year, I started to contribute on Exercism. For those who do not know what is Exercism, in a few words it’s Exercism aims to provide opportunity for people of all backgrounds by helping them develop their programming skills through practice and mentorship. We provide thousands of exercises spread across over 50 language tracks, […]
Hi, Today I feel extra motivated so I’ve decided to write more posts. So, before the end of 2019, I spent a lot of time thinking on how I wanted to grow during the year and the next ones. One thing that needed to change in my routine before I could start being serious about […]
My definition of success for the start of the decade is a complex answer that deserves my utmost attention. Why is it a complex topic? It’s composed of many layers that my life revolves around. Stepping out of the comfort zone First, I see that change is something that I’m comfortable staying away from and […]
Hi readers, This year has been a big one in the field of software engineering for me. My close friends know that F# has always been a technology that I loved and I promised myself I would start doing more F# development than I have ever done before. FSSF I’ve joined the F# FSSF community […]
Hi everyone, Today’s post is targeting students in college. The main idea is to sell you the idea of participating in the Google Summer of Code program that Google host every year since 2005. Oh and by the way, this is just free publicity, the program does not provide any money to me in order […]
Hi, For those looking for new ways to kick off 2019 with a bang with your .NET skills, keep on reading 🙂 1. Leverage more LINQ in your C# code Lately, functional programming has been a really hot and trending topic. C# is becoming more of a functional programming language to stay on par with […]
Hey guys, So, professional shaped skills… What’s that. Basically, it’s the form your skills take concerning your expertise in your individual field(s). This form will depend on both depth and broadness. Trying to learn as many things as possible will lead to little depth and a large broadness of skills. The exact opposite leads to […]
Hi, I’ve been out for a while like I said in this post… I got erased somehow and I decided to re-write it. So basically, I was saying that I found this new internship as a mobile developer in a .NET company ! It is a third-party Microsoft company which delivers windows phone 8.1 and […]
Welcome reader, This is the first part of a mini-serie to introduce the basics of programming with C#. Don’t forget to look at my GitHub account. I haven’t decide yet, but surely I will create a project which will resume every topic that I’ve talked about during the Programming basics serie. So, we’re finally there, […]
I can assure you, this is the last post I’m writting before you’ll finally be able to dive into programming. On the plus side, this post is meant to help you with coding. To be able to program any software, a programmer needs an integrated development environment (IDE). Before, .NET applications were only able to […]
Before going into coding, I wanted to talk about software version control and the perks of using it in your daily life. The version control, simply, is a repository (storage location). In the repository, the source code, and other files, Â from a software project. Every changes made to the software project will be track along […]
Hi everyone, This is my first post in wordpress. I’ve created this website in order to help developers to dive into the great world of .NET! Thing is, it is so vast that it can be bothersome to try to find exactly what you want to achieve with .NET. About everything can be achieved with […]
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