Written by Adam Swanson, hailing from Indiana, who designs, builds, and delivers software. You know, the cool stuff. You should follow him on X.
College is a great starting point, but it doesn't teach you everything. After 4 years in the industry, I've learned much more on the job that I ever did in my college courses. Here's my biggest recommendations.
It's true: having tests gives you safety. Safety to add new features. Safety to refactor code. Safety to fix one bug without causing two more. And they're completely automated, saving time that you would've spent manually testing. These benefits are a real game-changer in the software development industry, allowing us developers to confidently build products - with fewer bugs - in less time. And yet, not all of us write tests. Why?
Adding authentication to any app should be straightforward. Here's how to do it with Azure AD in a .NET Angular app using MSAL.
There are major differences to consider when moving to an event-driven system. Let's take a look at the major ones and examine what changes are required to adopt this unique architecture.
Creating a new .NET Core project with the Angular template is pretty handy, but it starts you out on Angular 8. The upgrade process to version 10 is not very straightforward and can cause some serious headaches if you're not sure what to look out for. Thankfully, I recently completed this process and wanted to share the steps I took to perform a successful upgrade.
Written as my final reflection paper in college, I take a few steps back in time to reflect on my college experiences and how much I've grown over the few, short years.
