spetryjohnson

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, 
my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit 
than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. But you can 
call me Ishmael. 

It was a dark and stormy night during the best of times and the worst of 
times when I came to realize that all children, except one, grow up. The 
other awakes from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed in his bed into 
a monstrous vermin! Then the cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the 
retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. Clearly, 

spetryjohnson

General bio
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Seth has been programming for 25 years, 18 of them professionally. He is a full-stack
developer/architect and enjoys bouncing between the database, .NET and JavaScript with
the occasional foray into devops. He is passionate about bringing order to chaos through 
clean architecture, simple designs and testable code. Seth lives in Columbus, OH and is 
an active participant in the Midwest developer community.


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public static class StringExtensions {

  /// <summary>
  /// Null safe value of .Trim(). If the value is null, returns an empty string.
  /// </summary>
  public static string TrimNullSafe(this string value) {
	  return (value != null)
		? value.Trim()
		: String.Empty;
	}