Kyle is a passionate craftsman with nearly a decade of experience in software development. He enjoys contributing to OSS projects and tinkering with the latest Azure offerings, .NET features, and front end frameworks. He values strong communication, mentorship, and pair programming practices alongside design patterns, test-driven development, and clean architecture principles.

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Improving Your Tests with AutoFixture
December 01, 2023
AutoFixture is a library for .NET that can help you generate data for your tests. It can reduce the amount of code needed to Arrange (the first A in the style…
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Everything is Functions
December 22, 2022
This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar 2022 hosted by Sergey Tihon. The goal of this post is to provide a glimpse into the journey of two C# developers…
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Creating Custom Fluent Assertions
September 23, 2022
Fluent Assertions is a library used to make C# test code more readable and expressive. This frees your tests from syntax heavy assertion statements and allows…
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Transforming Results With the Map Method
August 23, 2022
In the latest release of Ardalis.Result, a community requested feature was added to convert results from one type to another. This allows for flexible…
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Fix Missing Default NuGet Feed
July 13, 2022
I was recently going through the process of installing the developer tooling I use on a fresh, new laptop. I installed the usual suspects like Visual Studio and…
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Streamlining Your NuGet Package Versions
May 26, 2022
Earlier this year Microsoft announced a new way to manage dependencies in .NET applications called Central Package Management. This new way of managing…
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Getting Started With Specifications
May 13, 2022
Specification is a pattern in Domain Driven Design that helps encapsulate domain knowledge in a reusable way. The term Specification was coined by Martin Fowler…
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Getting Started With Ardalis.Result
April 18, 2022
A result is an abstraction that allows developers to express the value as well as the outcome of an operation. A basic result can represent whether an operation…
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Persisting a Smart Enum with Entity Framework Core
February 10, 2022
A Smart Enum is an enhancement of the C# enum that provides a strongly typed and object oriented approach to enum types. Smart Enums can be used when a enum…
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