Being a good developer
In my last appraisal at work I got asked what I thought makes a good developer. I didn’t give a very good answer, mumbling something about keeping up with current developments, reading around the...
View Article57 days
Yesterday, with the return of my family from holiday, I forgot to make changes to any of my projects in GitHub, and broke my commit streak at 57 days. Initially I’d aimed for making changes on 30...
View ArticleGetting started with .NET Core
It’s been a few years since I last used .net so I thought I’d give it a go. It was slightly more eventful 30 minutes than I’d have liked, so I thought I’d write it up. I started by trying to install...
View ArticleRetrieve an Atom feed in .NET Core
After yesterday’s adventure and recent forehead-smacking, this seemed like an appropriate, and small, goal. After some Googling I found RestSharp, which bills itself as a Simple REST and HTTP API...
View ArticleBrick wall
So I wanted to parse the feed I retrieved yesterday, and now I know a bit more about how the package system works, I just search NuGet and found SimpleFeedReader $ dnu install SimpleFeedReader At this...
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