Last week I wrote about bit fields and how they can be used to easily track boolean values. Unit testing is pretty important to me, because I make mistakes a lot. By writing tests, I can have a little bit of confidence in the code that I wrote. via GIPHY Bit Fields Knowing how bit … [Read more…]
Bit flags aren’t probably something that you think about in traditional/modern software development. You might if you are in the IoT space, but if you have the pleasure of a ton of RAM, you probably aren’t super concerned with saving space. However, recently I’ve been thinking a lot about network communication and how to minimize … [Read more…]
Sometimes I find myself wanting a quick way to compare an enum with a list of other enums… Basically, if the enum is one of these, then do this. It’s pretty easy to do with Linq, but if you want to do it a few times in a few other places, it pays to be … [Read more…]
Enums are useful because they help you avoid magic numbers. You can write your code in a way that is easy to read and understand from the human’s perspective, which, at the end of the day, is pretty important. Exposing enums on your Web API I want to share my enums with other things, notably … [Read more…]