Listening to users requires both qualitative and quantitative data gathering. Let's walk through how we think about blending qual and quant and what's hindered our efforts to gather quantitative input.

You may have noticed that our blog recently got a facelift. While redesigning front end sites is fairly common, in our case, this represented a bigger change. We noticed that we weren't treating our blog with the same principles we apply to the rest of our work. And so we embarked on a journey to find a better way, which lead to our current implementation.

With .NET Core, Microsoft introduced a new way to build pipeline behavior—middleware. Middleware solves many of the challenges with HttpModules, and makes building a custom request pipeline easy. Converting our custom behavior to middleware was fairly easy, but there were a few surprises waiting for us.

The world around us is littered with calls for learning to program. You may think, "I know how to code." Learning to code may be the beginning of the journey, but I posit that even mastering a language should not be the end. It may just be time to learn a new language.

There are lots of different types of tests. There are lots of different types of automated tests. In this post we'll talk about unit tests, specifically a few different types of unit tests and when you might want to use each.