Maybe, the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word "KATA" is a movie of Bruce Lee or maybe, the movie Kung Fu Panda  😛 . According to Wikipedia Kata is:  "Japanese word, are detailed choreographed patterns of movements practiced either solo or in pairs. The term form is used for the corresponding concept in non-Japanese martial arts in general." In other words, a set of movements very well synchronized which simulates a fight in real life, and the more you practice those movements, the better you become at fighting. But....we are going to talk about Code Kata ,  instead of practicing how to kick and throw punches, we are going to practice by writing some beautiful code. The first time I heard the term "Code Kata" was in the book The Clean Coder by Robert C. Martin, but the original term was credited by Dave Thomas in his book The Pragmatic Programmer.I recommend them both in my post Books you must read as a develope...

I thought to write a post about my journey making projects with .NET Core but that will be a long post and maybe nobody will read it; instead, I will make a series of posts with some topics I found interesting to talk about. Many of us come from ASP.NET 4 and old versions, we used to work with Web.config in our web projects, a file to place our settings in XML format, but it no longer exists in .NET Core (or at least in our Solution Explorer). In .NET  Core we use appsettings.json to place our settings in JSON format. Let's see how this works by getting our hands dirty: 1) Create a .NET Core Web Application project: You will see a bunch of files generated from the template in the Solution Explorer. appsettings.json is meant to replace settings previously located in Web.config . To catch these configurations in the project, the Startup.cs file has the following lines: As you can see the appsettings.json file is added to the ConfigurationBuil...

The title says "Must" but in fact, this is my recommendation for you as a developer. The following books changed my vision and the way I work, this took me from having spaghetti code to a more structured and easier to maintain code base.  Also, helped me to improve my way of thinking in front of certain circumstances . Let's start: The Clean Coder by Robert Martin  Before I talk to you about the book itself, let me explain to you shortly who is the author: Robert Martin a.k.a. Uncle Bob has been writing code since 1970, he is one of the writers of the Agile Manifesto which defines better ways to do the whole development cycle. He is one of the most influential authors in OO programming. The book "The Clean Coder" talks from the perspective of his experience, as I said before he has been coding since the 70's,  a lot of time on the keyboard as you can imagine. The main point of this book is not to show you how to write good code per se, but how to...

Log and log often ~ Nobody said that. There's a quote that says "You can't improve what you can't measure". Logging events in web apps is one of those things developers tend to underestimate. In this tutorial, I will explain shortly how to implement  Elmah in ASP.NET Core for logging errors, important info, warnings, or any other kind of level.... and send it to the Elmah.io cloud service. You are maybe wondering, why Elmah.io? there are others Third-party logging providers, but I chose this for 4 main reasons: * Vast documentation. * Public and private support of the product itself. * Cool user interface. * Cost (a freemium pricing model)   free plan discontinued :( First step: get everything ready with an Elmah.io account, go directly to their website and sing up. Once you are registered, sing in --> Dashboard --> click on the gear symbol of the organization  --> API Keys. Now create your API or use the default one: Second Step: To save y...

Yeap! I’m back and this is my new blog where I plan to publish at least twice a month. I'll try to write about software development, useful tools, tips, share some experiences and tutorials, I do really like tutorials 😀 . About me Ok, I will copy-paste that from my personal website : I am a software developer who primarily works with Web Applications based on ASP.NET framework, I’m currently playing with ASP.NET Core. I have been involved in many tech projects, in the field of business, government, and startups, always working on both the back-end and the front-end. I consider myself a person with hunger for knowledge and always looking for new ideas to improve what the market has to offer. Why am I blogging again? Back in 2008, I met Ubuntu while I was taking a Cisco course, I fell in love with it and after one year I started a blog with some friends about Linux and everything related. I was blogging for about 4 years, but as an effect of the market in m...