Michael Sorens in Containers and Virtualization

Checking the pulse of Kubernetes

In this article, Michael Sorens describes the many ways that you can monitor Kubernetes.…

08 October 2020 10 min read

Testing

Michael Sorens in Testing

The Phantom Menace in Unit Testing

Testing is a challenging yet crucial part of software development, but how do you know that a test is telling...

09 May 2019 10 min read

Software Delivery

Michael Sorens in Software Delivery

Better Code Reviews with GIT

As more dev teams move their code to Git, it’s important to understand the differences between it and other tools...

07 January 2019 12 min read

Testing

Michael Sorens in Testing

Go Unit Tests: Tips from the Trenches

In this article, Michael Sorens describes unit testing for applications written in Go. While focused on Go, many of his...

20 July 2018 33 min read

.NET

Michael Sorens in .NET

Git Strategizing: Branch, Commit, Review, and Merge

Git stands out among source control systems as providing great support for branching and merging. However, as with any complex...

03 April 2018 26 min read

Opinion Pieces

Michael Sorens in Opinion Pieces

Fighting Evil in Your Code: Comments on Comments

One of the most glib generalisations you can make about development work is to say that code should be liberally...

28 June 2017 21 min read

.NET

Michael Sorens in .NET

High Performance PowerShell with LINQ

PowerShell is a scripting language, and like all scripting languages it struggles to perform well with rapid iterative processes such...

19 May 2017 46 min read

.NET

Michael Sorens in .NET

A Visual Lexicon of LINQ

LINQ is best learned from examples, but few LINQ resources supply, along with the code, pictures that illustrate what each...

25 April 2017 18 min read

.NET

Michael Sorens in .NET

A Visual Lexicon of LINQ: The Wallchart

Here is a handy wallchart that condenses the information contained in our article 'The Visual LINQ Lexicon' even further, but...

25 April 2017 0 min read

.NET

Michael Sorens in .NET

Ten Unsung Visual Studio Time-Savers

We all have our favourite third-party extensions to Visual Studio, and although we all like Resharper, there are many others...

06 April 2017 18 min read

PowerShell

Michael Sorens in PowerShell

PowerShell Time Saver: Automatic Defaults

Because PowerShell needs to be usable as an immediate scripting language by IT professionals who type in commands at a...

30 January 2017 19 min read

.NET

Michael Sorens in .NET

Code Smells: Raw Strings and the Subtle Syntax Catastrophe

All sorts of complex data can be represented as a string but that doesn't mean you can treat them merely...

05 January 2017 20 min read

.NET

Michael Sorens in .NET

LINQ Debugging and Visualization

LINQ is certainly extraordinarily useful. It brings the power of query expressions to C#, allowing an easy way of getting...

01 December 2016 19 min read

Opinion Pieces

Michael Sorens in Opinion Pieces

Development Delusions: That it is Enough to Build a Better Mousetrap

You've written a superb, clever, application that you are trying to encourage your colleagues to use. They're not interested. Why?...

15 November 2016 15 min read

.NET

Michael Sorens in .NET

4 Keys to a Clean Angular Implementation

Can there be true separation of concerns with MVC? Not entirely, especially when Angular's templates allow you so much flexibility;...

06 October 2016 15 min read

.NET

Michael Sorens in .NET

Using C# to Create PowerShell Cmdlets: Beyond the Basics

It is just the first stage to make your C# Cmdlet do what it is supposed to do. Even though...

22 July 2016 21 min read

Michael Sorens

Persistent PowerShell: The PowerShell Profile

You can mould PowerShell to the way you want to work, with all the settings and modules that you require,...

16 May 2016 19 min read

Michael Sorens

Continuous Delivery from the 19th Century to TODAY

It somehow feels like the end of an era. The National Weather Service of the USA's National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

10 May 2016 2 min read

Michael Sorens

Unified Approach to Generating Documentation for PowerShell Cmdlets

Now, it is easy to provide professional-quality documentation for PowerShell cmdlets, and to keep it in sync when you make...

22 April 2016 2 min read

.NET

Michael Sorens in .NET

The Zen of Code Reviews: The Reviewer’s Tale

When you are reviewing your colleagues’ code, it is a good idea to look closely at the unit tests to...

14 March 2016 18 min read

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Checking the pulse of Kubernetes

The Phantom Menace in Unit Testing

Better Code Reviews with GIT

Go Unit Tests: Tips from the Trenches

Git Strategizing: Branch, Commit, Review, and Merge

Fighting Evil in Your Code: Comments on Comments

High Performance PowerShell with LINQ

A Visual Lexicon of LINQ

A Visual Lexicon of LINQ: The Wallchart

Ten Unsung Visual Studio Time-Savers

PowerShell Time Saver: Automatic Defaults

Code Smells: Raw Strings and the Subtle Syntax Catastrophe

LINQ Debugging and Visualization

Development Delusions: That it is Enough to Build a Better Mousetrap

4 Keys to a Clean Angular Implementation

Using C# to Create PowerShell Cmdlets: Beyond the Basics

Persistent PowerShell: The PowerShell Profile

Continuous Delivery from the 19th Century to TODAY

Unified Approach to Generating Documentation for PowerShell Cmdlets

The Zen of Code Reviews: The Reviewer’s Tale