The idea of bragging and gloating is often looked at as a bad thing. A recent podcast talks about bragging - to ourselves. And I love it.
On an episode of This Developer's Life by Scott Hanselman and Rob Connery called Reboot they briefly, like SUPER briefly, discuss a Brag Book.
(BTW - go listen to the podcast, it's an amazing a piece on life's reboots and how we're never stuck doing what we're doing - and sometimes the changes are ibtentiona and otger times they're not. Go listen!).
What's a Brag Book
The idea of bragging and gloating is often looked at as a bad thing. A recent podcast talks about bragging - to ourselves. And I love it.
In a constant struggle to get it just right, where perfection is the enemy of...everything. This is an essay into putting it all out there, whether ready or not.
Azure Table Storage Row Limits
What do you do when you can't store your data in Azure storage tables, but the tech is exactly what you. You move on. Just kidding. Let's talk about it.
So many questions about this with so many answers based on religion. An attempt at an objective review from an atheist.
I am not sure what you call the bots that just scour websites for content, and I assume exploits. It's annoying. And expensive.
Most companies that you'll work for love to say how "we're all family." This is true of small businesses and large corporate enterprises. Here's what I've shared with my kids as they enter the workforce and why.
EF Core is great. And on an everyday basis, it you can zipp by and get shit done. But, then you need some help and what ought to be easy (and maybe is), you have no idea (or forgot) how to do it.
Every release so much is released that is so good. This is what I want to remember to use.
EF7 - You're Owned not complex
OK - the title is misleading, but weirdly true. no mo' complex!
The value of Benchmarking. Still. Always
Benchmarking code is important because you learn something you can always use. Follow me on this short journey through "is there something better?"
Coding Quality of life improvements
We code all day. We do the same thing, every day. Why not make some Quality of Life improvements to your coding life. Here's an example.
Over Engineering / Over Architecting
People love to ring the alarm about Pre-Optimization but expect over-architecting. Another example of followers just regurgitating what a popular/well-respected dev says [one day].
Blazor Shared Resources Naming Requirement
If you're trying to link a shared Blazor/Razor library for CSS, images, JS, etc., you need to name it correctly.
There are some things that I want to do. That I have been wanting to do. Things that I share as open source software. This is about that.
Application Insights and Annoying Storage account 404s
Application Insights fills up (and costs you $$$) when expected 404s are treated as exceptions. What's a dev to do?
SQL Bulk Copy - how I love thee?
A classic but sometimes PITA ETL class that is essential. A couple errors that are annoying but easy to identify and fix.
Displaying Azure's Blob Storage in a file explorer or filing cabinet view should be easy. Let's make it so. (1 of x)
Like all good developers, new and old, you must build your own blog engine.
You have a container to restrict the width of your page, but you want some inner content to not be constrained! To break free! Easy.
Things I do not want to forget and search here is easier than searching Google with Bing
Azure App Configuration - For the Rich
Azure's App Configuration is a great idea and another awesome resource Azure provides to ease development. But only if you don't mind burning money.
Didn't know that you had a catch-all, did you? How long did it take you to find this insidious little error? 3 days for me. The second time I was looking for it.
Rich Text Editors - HTML Editors - WYSIWYG
State of web based text editors in 2020.
While looking at writing about guidelines this age-old argument came up as an item...
ETL - That's Wrong, Don't Delete
You have an ETL process (importing data) that deletes and inserts data. This is what I do to make sure it's not a mistake to keep going.
Another, Why NPM Sucks Article
Much of the dev world has a love hate relationship with NPM. Here's another reason.
These new range operators in C# 8.0 are we sweet. If you can remember them.
Emailing - Attaching Azure Blobs
Sending emails with attachments from Azure blob files. So easy.
For the longest controlling Azure's horsepower was nigh impossible. It was a bit of a nightmare. Today I found out, not anymore.
What does the USD symbol look like in Linux? The unknown emoji symbol, kinda.
How to display all the properties, when you don't know them - or don't care
State of Client Side Frameworks
Which client side framework to select in 2019 is harder than ever. Or is it?
ASP.NET Core - InProcess - An Error
Just a reminder and note and maybe a Goggle helper for an error...
Azure Storage - Version Has a Cost
Selecting the wrong version of Azure Storage can cost you. A lot.
Key Management in CI/CD (Azure) (anti-forgery)
Using keys for anti-forgery in Azure in a CI/CD environment
Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
A reference to Scott Hansleman's post, because I really like using Fira as a font for programming.