Here, I made a way to navigate between ANY files in Visual Studio

Being able to navigate between different parts of code is really useful. You simply hold down the ctrl key and click on an item, and you're taken to the definition of a method, or class, or whatever. Or, maybe you use a shortcut or context-menu entry to do the same. However you do it, it makes navigating...

When everyone's working together for the collective good

"Why do you care? You're leaving at the end of the week."I've been reading, the excellent, Turn the Ship Around by L. David Marquet.It's made me reflect on two work-related scenarios:The first is where the above quote comes from. It was after the weekly developer-team meeting and two days before I left...

Open-source is like politics - show up to make a difference

Open source is like politics.But, probably not in the way you're thinking. Not politics in a negative sense as if it's all about power, domination, and control.Photo by Element5 Digital on UnsplashI think open source is like politics in that many people think about it in the same way as they do the...

It's sad and happy to deprecate something that's no longer needed.

A couple of years ago, I built a tool called UWP Design-Time Data (GitHub | NuGet)It attempted to provide some functionality that was available in Xamarin.Forms (XF) but not in UWP.I saw someone from Microsoft show the functionality available to XF developers and immediately wondered two things?...

Never just "should"!

 TLDR: never use "should" without explaining why.Photo by Brett Sayles on PexelsHow many times today have you used the word "should"?"You should do X.""They should do Y.""It shouldn't be like that."Or any variation on that theme?"should just" is even worse."You should just do X."This use of "just"...

You must be insane to be a software developer

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." - Probably not Albert Einstein. When debugging, I repeat myself frequently. Doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result.There are times I wish I had alternatives,...