Agentic Coding – Part 2
In this final part I will share my experiences with custom instructions and custom prompts for refactoring and bug fixing
Category: refactoring
Agentic Coding – Part 1
Since my first post on agentic refactoring and having attended O’Reilly Coding With AI seminar, I have learnt about a couple of techniques (more like still learning to get good at them), that have improved the results I have had with agentic coding somewhat
Some Observations on AI/Agentic Refactoring
I have been reading, hearing a lot about how AI/vibe coding will make software engineers obsolete and that agentic coding is like magic…so I decided to give agentic refactoring a shot
Some More Lessons Learned in Event Driven Architectures
In this post I present some finer grained lessons we’ve learned (a. k. a burn marks) since then having solved some foundational problems that surfaced due to not paying enough attention to the failure modes inherent in EDAs, upfront
Using C# Source Generators to Generate Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)
Using C# Source Generators to generate DTOs could potentially save a lot of developer time, so in this post I am going to attempt to write just such a generator.
Converting an ASP.NET Core MVC App to Blazor SPA – Part 3 (Authentication + Wrap up)
The central idea around Blazor auth is for the UI system to be able to query the authentication state of the user and render different views. Blazor uses AuthenticationStateProvider to query this auth state via the AuthorizeView component.
Converting an ASP.NET Core MVC App to Blazor SPA – Part 2 (The Frontend)
Given the fact that there is no shortage of SPA frameworks and libraries like Angular, React, Vue, Knockout ad inifitum, for building the new frontend app for my app, I decided to go with Blazor.
Converting an ASP.NET Core MVC App to Blazor SPA – Part 1 (The Backend)
I have a personal expense tracking app that for the last few months I’d been working to migrate away from MVC towards more modern client apps whilst reusing the backend code and logic.
Using Mikado Technique to Migrate to .NET Core
Not long ago we completed the migration of all our services to .NET Core. Of note was a mission critical full .NET framework legacy Windows Service and in this post I would like to share how we completed that migration.
Managing Technical Debt in Software
There are many posts and articles that expound the virtues of paying back the tech debt and philosophise at great lengths about the various design patterns that can improve the design of the code. In this post I’d like to tackle the more pragmatic and real life aspects around tech debt from my perspective.
Remote Pair Programming in COVID-19 Times
Pair programming in pre-COVID 19 used to be somewhat easier because we were all in the same office space. COVID-19 changed all that…
Mars Rover Programming Kata using DDD+TDD+Ports and Adapters
A few weeks ago I came across this Mars Rover programming challenge/kata and being a bit of a space buff, I thought I will take a crack at it.
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