Scott DePouw
Senior Consultant
Scott has over a decade of professional software development and consulting experience working with a plethora of technologies and frameworks. He's a strong proponent and practitioner of SOLID programming principles and test-driven development.
Posts
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September 15, 2025Learn how to use the Git command line to fully control what parts of files you commit. Use the interactive Patch Mode to split hunks further to refine your …
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August 25, 2025Rather than using built-in exceptions, you can create your own custom exceptions to use in your application. They're easy to create and are far more …
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July 28, 2025It is optimal to not have pending database migrations when starting fresh on a new task, as letting them into stable branches leaves a stable branch in an …
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June 23, 2025Mark commits you make locally as Verified in GitHub by using GPG to sign the commits you make.
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May 22, 2025Scott attended Stir Trek's 2025 conference this year. In addition to learning a lot, there are other benefits to attending a live, in-person conference!
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April 24, 2025The quality of your application code can be measured in many ways. Let's take a step back and consider measuring said quality based on how easy (or difficult) …
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March 10, 2025By default ASP.NET Core Identity will not add support for Roles interaction. Find out how to re-add it in this post!
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February 18, 2025Take advantage of C#'s 'in' keyword to modify parameters, making them immutable and passed more efficiently.
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January 20, 2025Write cleaner test assertions with better messaging using the Shouldly library
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December 09, 2024See how to take advantage of Random.Shared in your C# code while also making it testable.
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November 21, 2024Optimize your SQL by performing advanced grouping using RANK()/ROW_NUMBER() and PARTITION BY instead of manually iterating over data.
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October 29, 2024Discover a quirk in C# records when using both positional parameters and declared properties.