Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC

Great sources to get started and to look back at. Covers everything from scaffolding to ef concurrency management.

Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 5

Getting Started with Entity Framework 6 Code First using MVC 5

Functional vs divisional organisations

Great articles by Ben Thompson at Stratechery

Why Microsoft’s Reorganization Is a Bad Idea

Apple’s Organizational Crossroads

Repository pattern

Jonas Gauffin writes about the purpose of the repository pattern

Repository pattern done right

Redux

Great stuff by Dan Abramov
Getting Started with Redux
Building React Applications with Idiomatic Redux
Why do we need middleware for async flow in Redux?
Reference
Redux

React

Great tutorial
Learning React
Reference
React

Get raw query from Elasticsearch NEST client

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28939022/get-raw-query-from-nest-client

var json = elasticClient.RequestResponseSerializer.SerializeToString(request);

Great for debugging and finding out what json you are sending.

DateTime and DateTimeOffset

Choosing between DateTime, DateTimeOffset, TimeSpan, and TimeZoneInfo

DateTime.ToLocalTime

Utc This instance of DateTime is converted to local time.
Local No conversion is performed.
Unspecified This instance of DateTime is assumed to be a UTC time, and the conversion is performed as if Kind were Utc.

DateTime.ToUniversalTime

Utc No conversion is performed.
Local The current DateTime object is converted to UTC.
Unspecified The current DateTime object is assumed to be a local time, and the conversion is performed as if Kind were Local.