Github API - Handling authentication

Github API - Handling authentication

With v3 of the Github REST API, calling a certain methods when unauthenticated will return a limited set of information, and when authenticated will return extra information. One of the things I wanted to do was to make it easy,...

Is this thing on?

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! Damn you empty catch block

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