Hey kids!! I know some folks are amateur coders here, looking for some good ways to get better at this crazy craft of ours!! Here's a quick list of some things to focus on to learn to code without going to a 'traditional' school for it. These days, employers aren't as concerned with your education and experience, as they are with how well you can provide a solid, mature scalable coded solutions to what they ask for. This list is generic - it's not geared towards any specif

Hey kids!! It never fails, there's always that one super easy thing that we forget. It's very basic and one of the fundamental things you've learned about C#, and should make sense in our brains, but this one thing most certainly doesn't stick. All of us have that one function or object that seems to be forgotten as soon as its used. Until you need it again in a week, month, year. So, here's the one aggravatingly easy LINQ Microsoft .NET statement I always have to look up

Hey kids!! If you work in .NET, you want to attend this conference! It's free and virtual so make sure you save the date! November 8-10 Site Excerpt: NET 7 launch! .NET Conf is a free, three-day, virtual developer event that celebrates the major releases of the .NET development platform. It is co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, and sponsored by the .NET Foundation and our ecosystem partners. Come celebrate and learn about what you can do with .NET 7. Offici

Hey kids! Let's chat about how to use the subscribe function to connect your Angular UI to a backend API. It's quite simple, once you figure it out ... it only took me about 2 weeks to figure it out lol We'll go over how to create your API first. If you have an API you have already created or you want to connect to, you can skip this step and scroll down to here! Backend API Service For the Backend, you want to create your new API in whatever language / IDE you work in. O

Hey kids! Let's continue learning to do some fun things with Angular! Next up is adding a form to your site. I used the base Angular site demo to make the base. Then I crafted the individual changes I needed for my purposes. To follow along, you can use the link below for additional information and resources. https://v12.angular.io/guide/forms Verify your Angular version in the package.json file first. Other versions may not play well as-is but the basic ideas should st

Hey kids! Now, I know this is really simple, but I did have to Google how to do this, so I thought I'd share for our one-stop-shop of all things Angular!! How do you check your Angular version? Easy!! Open your Terminal Window in Visual Studio or in VS Code now type: ng --version Your CLI version will pop up for you so you can verify. To check you Angular project version, you need to open the package.json file and find the "dependencies" section. This will tell you what A

Hey kids!! The previous post I made about adding a custom modal to your Angular app is only good as-is up to Angular version 12. In the next Angular version 12, one of the properties needs an update. Let’s take a look at what changed and how we can fix it. The changes are minor and should be relatively painless .... I hope :) First, check your Angular version to see if this even applies to you. There are two version types - the CLI and the project itself. In your Terminal w

Hey kids! I've been hard at work trying to get the hang of this Angular thing ... so far, it's slow but it's going! I'm happy to have a few things to share with you :) One thing I learned while watching videos by Deborah Kurata is that when you subscribe to an API call, you should definitely use Rxjs. She explains that it can keep your site from having accidental memory leaks. Leaky Angular isn't what we want ......... SO!! That means, I had to figure out how to update my

Hey kids!! Let's go over some basics for exception (error) handling and logging. This is legit the hill I will die on when I'm debating if code is good or not. If the code does not have error handling and GOOD logging, it's not ready for production. When you add error handling and logging to your code, you make it a million times easier to pinpoint the actual error instead of having to dig around and guess. So, how do we know if our code errors? We add Try Catch Finally

Why we need NFR’s for our code. Non Functional Requirements