Another November is almost upon us, and that means we get a new release of .NET! This year is an odd year, that is to say DateTime.UtcNow.Year % 2 == 1, so we know it’s a Long Term Support (LTS) release. That means three years of support giving organisations more confidence in shifting to it. On the flip side, we have one year to get off .NET 8 (the previous LTS release) and only six months to get off .NET 9 (the previous Standard Term Support or STS release). ...
Making Comparisons
Over my career I have recognised a trap that both myself and others have fallen into. That trap is overly comparing oneself to others. When I started out in my career as a technologist I was lucky enough to work with a senior engineer that also tried to help us newbies improve. Now from any objective measure, this senior engineer was more capable than me in our roles but thinking about it, is that unexpected? ...