Overcoming Impostor Syndrome

Taking off the mask

David Pine

6 minute read

What is “impostor syndrome” you ask?

According to 

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome" target='_blank'>Wikipedia</a>

:

Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome) is a term coined in 1978 by clinical psychologists Dr. Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes referring to high-achieving individuals marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a “fraud”. Despite external evidence of their competence, those exhibiting the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved. Proof of success is dismissed as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent and competent than they believe themselves to be.

Angular2 Http with RxJS Observables

Subscribing has never been so easy

David Pine

5 minute read

If you have been following the development efforts of the Angular2 project, you have witnessed certain highs and lows - but it has been a fun ride. The latest version is only a Release Candidate and the team is getting closer to the final release. I’m really looking forward to that! I wanted to take a moment to highlight (IMO) one of the key services of Angular2, the http service.

The power of the global.json

Leveraging .NET Core Tooling Features

David Pine

3 minute read

Introduction

As I’m sure you’re all aware by now, Monday June 27th was a special day for those of you who were anticipating the release of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. While the “core” frameworks and runtimes are RTM, the tooling is actually still in preview. In fact, we’re currently on Tools Preview 2. I wanted to focus this post entirely on one specific enhancement to Visual Studio solutions, enter the global.json.

ASP.NET Core RC2 (Migration Guide)

Migrating from RC1 to RC2

David Pine

9 minute read

Introduction

On Monday, May 16th 2016 there was an amazing announcement from the .NET Blog team!

Announcing .NET Core RC2 and .NET Core SDK Preview 1

This post will serve as a guide that walks you through the steps as I experienced them from migrating existing ASP.NET Core RC1 applications to ASP.NET Core RC2. It is worth mentioning that I’m am targeting the .NET 4.6 framework. So, I do not cover the .netcoreapp or netstandard TFMs (target framework monikers).