Is this thing on?
Despite many months of not posting anything on this blog (OK, nearly a year) I am returning with another post about my on/off project to write a C# library to access the Github REST API. Much like my blogging schedule,...
Getting paid to do something you love doing is awesome!
A lot of people who work, don’t like their job. It’s a fact. If you were at a party and you asked people if they like the job they get paid to do, the response would be largely negative. That...
Damn you empty catch block
In the code I help maintain in my day job, I see a lot of the following code: try { /* code */ } catch(Exception) { } I see it in several different languages almost daily. It really frustrates me...
Github C# API: Handling the response with RestSharp
Once we make a request to Github.com with RestSharp, we get a response, and RestSharp gives us a RestResponse object, with which we can do something with the content. The content will be in the format that we specified when...
Let's write an API library for Github
Let’s write a C# API library for github.com.