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Usings in C#
Posted on January 24, 2020
When starting a new job in a position of leadership, you often will inherit less-than-optimal code. Perhaps some of this code is “legacy” or had been written unchecked by previous developers, and had made its way to production. Depending on the competence of your predecessor, some of this code may be less than your standard. […]
The Scientific Mindset
Posted on January 4, 2020
I earned my PhD at the end of 2013 with a thesis topic on low-level vision science. Obtaining a PhD is a long and sometimes arduous task. One cannot be afraid of digging in and “doing it yourself” – it is that attitude along with a large dose of tenacity and caffeine that can get […]
ASPNET AJAX Control Toolkit Tip
Posted on December 10, 2019
In this day and age, async is king. We are used to pages loading asynchronously and deferring the loading of not-as-important scripts or images until later in the page lifecycle. We do it with lazy loading, with AJAX, and with smaller calls to the service layer to populate parts of the view model. However, such […]
My SlackBot
Posted on September 28, 2018
Slack is a wonderful collaboration tool for uniting team communication. I loved the idea of using Slack to automate many of my tasks. As a Software Engineering Director of a small company, one is expected to wear many hats, and I wanted to see what of the many patterned, “repeatable” tasks I could automate for […]
Jen Anderson, PhD 