Matt Nedrich on Atomic Spin

The Two Most Important Software Development Skills Aren’t Technical

Over the course of my career, I've found two characteristics to be among the most important for software developers to thrive.

.NET / WPF

Soft Deleting in Entity Framework Core

An approach that demonstrates how you can implement soft delete functionality in Entity Framework Core using middleware.

Development Practices

An Approach to Database Testing in .NET Core 2.1

In this post I present an easy approach to write unit tests in ASP.Net Core that interact with a test database — either in-memory or SQL Server.

Developer Tools

Compressing 3D Model Files with Draco

How to install and use the Draco open-source library for compressing/decompressing 3D mesh data. Plus an experiment in compressing 3D model files.

Development Practices

Debugging Strategies You Can Use on Every Project

Development Practices

Mob Programming: How We Stumbled Upon and Learned to Love It

We gathered our team around a whiteboard and sketched out some architectural ideas. Then, instead of splitting into pairs, we spent an entire day working together on some of the in

Software Science

An Introduction to PostgreSQL Materialized Views

What materialized views are, when you should consider using them, and what we learned from bringing them into our Postgres database project.

Development Practices

Preparing to Launch a Rewrite for a Public-Facing Website

Having existing users and an existing infrastructure can make website relaunches very complex. You need to guard the user experience every step of the way.

Web Apps

Should You Use React Storybook?

Storybook can make React development better. We're using it for a large React app, and it has definitely improved our development process.

Web Apps

Testing React App SEO using Fetch as Google

How to use Fetch as Google to test the SEO visibility of a single-page app written in React, plus a few experiments.

Web Apps

React and TypeScript – The Basics

What's required to set up a React TypeScript project, how basic React/Redux type definitions work, & how React with TypeScript is different than JavaScript.

React Native

Getting Started With React Native – Easy or Hard?

Setting up and configuring a React Native dev environment for both iOS and Android, and writing a simple, unpolished app with cross-platform tabbed nav.

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