One of the recurrent problems that I see in almost all C# codebases is the poor way in which developers implicitly or explicitly deal with NULL values. When you create a method that can potentially, implicitly or explicitly, return a NULL value, you set yourself up for a lot of…

After being a fan of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) for over a decade, I discovered Functional Programming and the way I looked at software development after that, has never been the same. Although I try not to spend time stating that one paradigm is better than the other. …

A few days ago, I had the need to create an async pipeline that consisted of actions (methods) composing over each other. I also wanted the construction of this pipeline to not generate any side effects, including exceptions, object state mutations, IO operations, etc. I had the need for function…

I have been thinking for a while now about my next article’s topic and I have to admit that even when I had a lot of ideas, I did not know which one to go with. A few days ago, after watching a well-known C#/.NET architect say in public, at…

Many JavaScript developers do not deal directly with Promises any more, things like RxJS and/or the async/await language support have saved them from that. But many developers around the world are not that lucky yet, and for different reasons still use Promises directly. Regardless of these reasons, if you fall…

I always wanted to write this article, even more than any JavaScript (JS) technical article. I am going to start off with a story, something that happened some time ago. I had just started working for a new company, and even when they hired me as a C# developer, they…

A critical aspect in the success or failure of a Software Product is its ability and flexibility to change when new requirements arrive. A system which components are not complicated to extend, grow, or adapt, and when doing so, new changes do not bring about chaos, will probably live way…

Around 2 years ago, after having written imperative code for about 16 years, I started to learn, explore and use more declarative forms of coding in the creation of Enterprise Software as well as for solving competitive programming algorithms. For me, the result has been clearer, shorter code, with a…

I have been asked a few times and by different software developers about the possible use cases for Iterators/Generators (I/G). …