Geeks Research And Xplain
Researching and Sharing Techniques for Continuous Improvement of your Life, your Team, and your Code.
Latest Improvements
- Improve Your Code: Ridiculously Easy Scheduled Azure Web Jobs
- Add Web Jobs right into your project using the Web Job folder structure.
Continuous Improvement of Your Life
- On Success
- Accomplishments require the audacity to think you can do it, a desire to accomplish more than you already have, and the discipline to make it happen
Continuous Improvement of Your Team
- 4 Steps to More Effective Meetings
- Strong meetings make for stronger teams
Continuous Improvement of Your Code
- Strongly-Typed ViewData, Session, and Application Variables - ASP.NET, C#
- Reduce errors, enhance refactorability, enable intellisense with strongly-typed properties
- Trim all strings Submitted to MVC Controllers - ASP.NET, C#
- How often do you really need a leading or trailing spaces in an input field?
- Quickly Fill an Array With a Value (or Pattern of Values) - C#
- Set all values in an int array to -1, set all strings to “BLANK”, initialize all pixels to light blue
- Introduction to Generic Coding - C#
- An Introduction to C# Generic Coding
Opinions
- Orlando’s Melrose Technology Center Rocks
- The public library in Orlando has an amazing facility for Makers of many varieties. Individual Audio/Video, group Audio/Video, 3D printing, meeting places, and classes are all available.
- Female Code Camp Speakers
- It is upsetting when technical events seem to be excluding people based on non-technical criteria such as gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. However; it is unfair to rant, point fingers, or call names without giving the organizers a fair chance to correct things.
Software Projects
- OrderByString • Source • NuGet • Web Site
- Use strings in OrderBy/ThenBy statements.
- Completely compatible with Entity Framework and other IQueryable providers.
- Interpolation Format Provider • Source • NuGet • Web Site
- A string format provider for .NET.
- Use name/value pairs or property names (even from anonymous types) to put values in string.
- fFastInjector 1.0.1 • Source • NuGet • Web Site
- High-speed, compact, and portable dependency injector for .NET 4.0+, Windows 8/10 apps, Windows Phone 8/10 and newer.
Foo Network - Video Projects
- Original Creations
- Geeks Research And eXplain - Explaining the mysterious parts of the tech world
- Retro Notes - Doing retrospectives about whatever
- Recommendations
- HanselMinutes Fresh Air for Developers
- Hello Tech Pros • Motivation • * Productivity • Leadership • Technology • People • Entrepreneurship • Being Unplugged
About David Walker
- Video Maker
- Internet personality