Visual Studio for Mac is a decent Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for writing .NET on a Mac. One area in which it has trouble is authenticating against a private NuGet feed. (For example, your company might host some common internal libraries). Attempting to configure a private NuGet feed using the Visual Studio for Mac IDE […]

Integration tests need to be reliable. If you’re hitting your actual identity provider with an [Authorize] attribute, your tests will fail if that server ever goes down or makes backwards-incompatible changes. The purpose of an integration test in ASP.NET is to test your application pipeline; not the availability of an external server. Here’s how to […]

1. What do you do here at HCSS? How long have you been here, and how long have you been here as a mom? I’m a User Experience Designer for HCSS Mobile, occasionally contributing to Safety and HeavyJob Web. I’ve been with HCSS for 12 years, and I’m a mom to a 5-year-old and 2-year […]

Growing up I have always loved to program. My first experience with programming was teaching myself how to program in Python because my high school didn’t offer any programming courses. After graduating high school I knew I wanted a career in programming, so I went to Texas A&M to study computer science. Throughout my college […]

Content Providers are one of the four primary components of an Android application. If you’re an Android developer, you’re probably more familiar with the other three: Activity, Service, Broadcast Receiver). Content Providers are used for sharing […]

In the past, when I told friends or family members that I wanted to pursue a career in software development, they looked at me as if I were crazy. I grew up on a farm and have […]