If I were to build a bootcamp in 2025, it would be radically different from the typical fast-paced, syntax-heavy programs out there. The goal? Mastery, engagement, and deep understanding—not just rushing through projects or copying code. Here’s how I’d do …
Author: Tyler Lemke
Building Mental Models via Debugging – Understand Code Line By Line
If you ever get frustrated, like me, at trying to understand what is going on with your code, you may want to put the console.log() statements down for a moment and try out debugging. I regularly like to make horrible …
Troubleshooting and Debugging Visual Studio Database Projects (Especially for Post Deploy Scripts)
If you see error messages in your “Error List” window it may be because you are in a non compiled sql file. Just close all open windows and do a rebuild to see if any real issues exist on your …
This book will change how you think about life. Derek turns certain notions on their head and helps you see life from completely different lenses or angles. What would you do if you had all of the money you needed, …
Another really great book on how learning really works
The Joys of Updating Your Own NuGet Package for .Net Core Apps
This last Sprint, I spent 3 or 4 days trying to get an internal NuGet Package updated, the version bumped, and get it published to Azure Artifacts. Then get a project that relied on this project updated. Let me start …
Code Complete – Book Club Week 2
This week we talked about Chapters 5 and 6. We talked a little bit about abstract data types, and how they are just collections of things with data on them. We also talked about how Properties in C# pretty much …
Code Complete – Book Club Week 1
I have had Code Complete 2nd Edition and didn’t get much further than page 50 of about 860+ pages. So, I decided to start a book club to help me complete what I once put off. Last week only half …
If you want one productivity book, get this one. Brian Tracy is a beast, and this book is an amazing primer on Productivity and removing procrastination. It is very high level for each of the 21 ways, so you don’t …
This is a good book for helping you to avoid logical fallacies. I really need to go over it again and take some notes because there were a lot of nuggets I have since forgotten :(. Finished in 2017/2018.