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If you’re not up-to-date, you fall behind. You fall behind in your work, which leads you to fall behind at home. If continued, it’s a never ending circle that can seem like climbing Everest in order to overcome. I propose that we, as developers, start doing is utilizing our free time to help not only ourselves but our co-workers too. We can do this via dev lunches.

MSMQ is Microsoft’s Message Queuing service that can be used to implement both synchronous and asynchronous solutions. Typically solutions are architectured using the available C++ API’s or via the relevant COM objects. The .Net Framework exposes the System.Messaging namespace which contains all the classes that you need to work with the MSMQ API.

Message queues are a substantial part of modern day enterprise architectures and a vital part of providing scalable solutions. They are designed for asynchronous communication between different parts of the system. They help scale individual components of a system and increase reliability with the optional addition of the persistence of messages to a storage system.

Today I just wanted to share a quick note regarding a Stack Overflow answer that I recently came across. In the answer the author explains that a call to Expression.CanReduce will typically return false, while Expression.Reduce() will return the current expression. The author continues to state that one of the types that overrides Expression.Reduce() and Expression.CanReduce is MemberInitExpression.

I have recently begun studying the theory and implementations of algorithms. During this study, I came across this post which describes how a bug exists in most implementations of a binary search algorithm.

Today I wanted to cover something that is not often covered when unit testing an object. If an object has the Equals method overridden, then there are a number of tests that we should be running as a minimum:

In my previous post, I discussed how to enable HSTS via MVC Action Filters. I thought that I would just do a follow up post showing you how to enable it via the web.config.

After reading Troy Hunt’s free ebook on the OWASP Top 10 for .Net Developers, I discovered an additional mechanism to help developers secure their websites. That mechanism is HTTP Strict Transport Security.