technology Archives - Rich Stokoe

Deconstructing the New Inner Loop for Single Page Applications (SPAs) in .NET 6

Posted on February 7, 2022July 11, 2023 by rich

Microsoft’s two major development platforms, .NET Framework and .NET Core, have converged in .NET 6, with major changes to .NET SPA web application development. You can hit F5 and be confident that everything just works, however, I couldn’t help spending some time digging into what’s going on under the hood… Forewarning: I’m going to ignore […]

Orienting Teams around the Axis of Change

Posted on January 2, 2021July 11, 2023 by rich

Tech is a very fluid and changing world, but one of the most lasting truths in technology is Conway’s Law.

Public Property Setters Can Get In The Sea

Posted on September 4, 2020September 17, 2020 by rich

I’m an unapologetic advocate of Object-oriented programming (OOP) and if you’re using an OOP programming framework I’m here to argue the case for burning your public property setters with napalm fire. As you probably know if you’re reading this, OOP is the discipline of expressing concepts as objects in code. A ubiquitous example is “Person”. […]

Why do people only read things that back up their way of thinking?

Posted on October 30, 2016October 30, 2016 by rich

Remember when the internet was in its infancy? We all had to put up with little 468 x 90 banner ads everywhere you looked – and sometimes we clicked them because we didn’t know better. As time went on we grew smarter, we were able to tell the bad adverts from the good, and the […]