APPM in Chrome Store

Edit: Unfortunately, as of 2/20/2019, APPM is no longer available for download from the Chrome Store. Any user wishing to leverage this extension must do so in Developer Mode; I will not be attempting to re-publish this extension in the future. Recently, I’ve been spending more of my free time cleaning up my open-source work. […]

Azure Key Vault in UWP Applications

As part of my strategy to transition some of my skills from WPF to UWP (two standards of graphical user interfaces with C# that are fairly similar), I decided to do a full port of my Azure Key Vault Manager application into UWP. One of the most significant issues I ran into was around the authentication mechanism […]

CryptInject Goes Public

CryptInject, the project that came out of the Part 1 post from a couple weeks ago has finally gone public on my GitHub account! Not much to say about it, but it’s been something that I’ve been thinking about doing for an incredibly long time and I’m thrilled to finally have something out for people to […]

C# Property Interception

Have you ever wanted (or needed!) to encrypt a C# object’s children with potentially different keys or different methods? How, then, do you implement inline object encryption in a way that’s essentially transparent to a developer? I’ve been wondering about this issue for 5 years and finally decided to prototype it. This concept has come to fruition in […]

An Engineer’s View from the Startup Trenches

What life as a software engineer has taught me about the business of startups Charting the pulse of a startup company is generally the job of an organization’s executive leadership, sales, and marketing. It makes sense: they’re the ones with access to costs and revenue streams, and they’re the ones involved in client and/or investor […]

On Good Software Design

Most engineers I talk to on a regular basis have said at one time or another… Look at this spaghetti code! How did such a simple system function turn into this 500-line disaster of engineering? It’s because as intriguing and unique an experience as seeing one’s idea simply execute is, it’s difficult for many people […]