Welcome! My name is Stuart Grassie. I'm a software developer based in the North West of England. It’s nice to meet you.

Latest Articles
build dotnet 8 in an offline build server

build dotnet 8 in an offline build server

In a corporate environment, the build server you have access to, and might even be responsible for, is almost usually ‘offline’ - which is to say that for annoyingly sensible security reasons, it is not reachable by the outside internet,...

Simple YAML Parser Refactoring

Simple YAML Parser Refactoring

After reviewing the code for the simple YAML parser I wrote, I decided it was getting a little messy, so before continuing, I decided to refactor it a little bit.

Simple YAML parser - parsing the header

Simple YAML parser - parsing the header

Previously we left off with a method which could parse the YAML header in one of our markdown files, and it was collecting each line between the --- header marker, for further processing.

Writing a simple YAML parser

Writing a simple YAML parser

The next thing to do to get BlogHelper9000 functional is to write a command which provides some information about the posts in the blog. I want to know:

Introduction to command line parsing with Oakton