I am currently working on training required for Azure Cloud Solution Architect – App Dev. These are pretty cool tools, all in one platform at your reach, easy to install and to use. My father was a banker, during a brief time in his life, he had a short stint in the late 1960’s working for … More Full Circle?
What is OAuth2? OAuth 2.0 is the industry-standard protocol for authorization. OAuth 2.0 supersedes the work done on the original OAuth protocol created in 2006. OAuth 2.0 focuses on client developer simplicity while providing specific authorization flows for web applications, desktop applications, mobile phones, and living room devices. reference: https://oauth.net/2/ Who uses OAuth2? Among them … More OAuth2 – Get an Access Token – C#
Problem I was enhancing an application that I have been working with for years, without any trouble. This application was developed with Visual Studio and the solution has multiple projects. While I was working on the enhancements I did some refactoring and renamed some of the classes and files on the application. All of the “sudden” … More Error The “GenerateResource” task failed unexpectedly.
On the previous post, we moved validation functionality to the Scraping object. The resulting function was this: There is still too much going on. The next step is to extract a method to process the items on the list, I called this method ScrapeStockData The resulting function would be, you can get an idea of … More Refactoring IV – Finally There
On the previous post I moved URL parsing code by extending the StockData class and creating a property called Url, now we are left with this code, but if you look at the highlighted code, there are way too many things happening here!. First you see negotiations between StockData and TickerData, validations. This functionality needs to be moved … More Refactoring III -Why is this here?
On my previous post, I started refactoring a function that reads stock and dates, checks the data against Yahoo Finance and returns some data. In this function, I take the Stock Ticker and the data and parse the URL to be evaluated by our web scrapper object. Now, this code can be taken out of … More Refactoring II- Encapsulating
Refactoring is an important process to crafting readable and maintainable code. Functions should follow the single responsibility principle – a function should do one thing and one thing only and should have few lines of code. Like with everything, you should apply this with measure and wisdom. I was asked to write a function that … More Refactoring I -Convert Linq Anonymous Types to List
The obligatory reflection on what have we accomplished in 2015 … always a sticky question. But if keep it to my book, training and research, it does not look that bad, I managed to keep the momentum going. Software Development Cracking the coding Interview – Gayle Laakman This is a great book with brain teasers and … More Books every software developer should read in 2016 – if you have not done so
ser·en·dip·i·ty The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. “a fortunate stroke of serendipity” synonyms: (happy) chance, (happy) accident, fluke; More Merriam-Webster Definition
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