Author Archives: Jesse Liberty

About Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. His latest book, Building APIs with .NET will be released early in 2025. Liberty is a Senior SW Engineer for CNH and he was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a Microsoft MVP.

A Dozen Programmer Utilities

Posted on December 8, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

Two years ago, I made a list of my indispensable tools. Here is a quick updated version: Lists are always subjective, but it is helpful, I think, to exchange favorites now and again. Feel free to add yours to the … Continue reading →

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Where’d it go?

Posted on December 2, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

Apparently I have maxed out the number of files I can have! Rather than give up, I’ve decided to upgrade. Unfortunately, before doing so I deleted a lot of files trying to make room, and I over did it, deleting … Continue reading →

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API #9 – Tables

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

An important part of creating APIs is interacting with data storage. While you can use any number of database programs, a common way to store simple data is in data tables. This is particularly useful when you are recording API … Continue reading →

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1,000,000 Views!

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

jesseliberty.com just crossed 1MM views (lifetime). So pleased you’ve stuck with me. See find me in menu to continue the dialog.

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Programming APIs Book

Posted on November 4, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

End of November, 2024.

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Mads Torgersen and C# 13

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

Mads Torgersen, lead designer of C# joins me to talk about what’s new in C# 13 and much more 

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Creating APIs Part 8: Validation

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

Performance is king (well, after accuracy) in APIs. Sending a request to the Database only to discover that the request is invalid is a waste of resources. Thus, we want to validate the request as soon as it hits the … Continue reading →

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Reboot!

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

This site has been quiet for a few months while I finish up my book (.NET APIs with C#). I’m happy to reboot both the blog and Yet Another Podcast, starting soon with an interview of Mads Torgerson (lead designer … Continue reading →

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NDepend

Posted on June 17, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

A dive into an amazing program for developers: NDepend

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Scott Hunter – Aspire and more

Posted on June 2, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

Scott Hunter (VP Microsoft) joins Yet Another Podcast’s reboot to talk about Aspire, Azure and much more. Do not miss this episode… Aspire will blow you away! Links to follow. 

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API Part 7 – Swagger Comments

Posted on February 15, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

In the previous post, I introduced Swagger and showed how to set up your project for Swagger. In this post I will show how to add Swagger comments to annotate your program. In earlier posts we looked at the database … Continue reading →

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.NET APIs Part 6 – Swagger

Posted on February 5, 2024 by Jesse Liberty

This is part 6 in a series about building APIs in .NET using C#. The previous (part 5) entry is here, and the series starts here. As you know, an API sits between a client and the back end. It … Continue reading →

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