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With the new .NET 5 platform, I wanted to find out how to convert an existing NuGet class library to support netstandard2.0 as well as net5.0. This way I can use this package in multiple .NET…
We all know and love caching, right? It makes all of our complex algorithms and expensive database or filesystem lookups seem so fast and simple. But there are downsides to caching. For example, how…
When working with web applications that look at the whole of the requested URL, you'll generally want to use hostnames other than localhost when debugging the app locally in your IDE. In my other…
This year I got very motivated to improve the code in the project I was working on. The classes were long and methods confusing. I wanted to learn how I could adjust the code so it took me and my…
If you are maintaining or developing an API, you need to make sure it is versioned. This ensures that any (breaking) change you need to make does not force parties that use your API to make changes…
Hotswapping Java code is a technique that can save a lot of programmer down time when you're working with humongous web applications that take forever to start up. It allows you to see the effect of…
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