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Migrated site

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I have now migrated this site from mkdocs to Jekyll Static Site Generation.

SQL Server Distributed Transaction Notes

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About SQL Server Distributed Transactions https://redmondmag.com/articles/2014/02/27/sql-server-distributed-transactions.aspx Questions relating to MSDT...

Create ramdrive to improve system performance

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So, I remmember in the old days I had an Amiga 500, now with the amiga you could easily setup a ram drive for fast access, this became very important when us...

Tech shop concept

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Business and Consumer consulting technology solutions Streamlining your business processes with technology to dramatically reduce operating costs, and pro...

Autoscraper Lead Gen

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Lead Generation Every company needs leads to survive and grow, leads are often purchased in batches of hundreds, thousands and hundreds of thousands at varyi...

Browser Rendering Engines 2011

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There are currently several main layout engines Gecko (and Gecko like Firefox) Webkit (Safari, Chrome, Android) Trident (IE) Presto (Opera) Browser ...

Software trends idea 2011

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When it comes to software, its good to see how a software has improved over the years or degraded, to determine how well that piece of software actually is o...

Create circle around google maps API v3

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Using the Google Maps API V3, create a Circle object, then use bindTo() to tie it to the position of your Marker (since they are both google.maps.MVCObject i...

Post: Link Permalink

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This theme supports link posts, made famous by John Gruber. To use, just add link: http://url-you-want-linked to the post’s YAML front matter and you’re done.

Post: Notice

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A notice displays information that explains nearby content. Often used to call attention to a particular detail.

Sandbox 2010

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this is my sandbox, basically a testing ground for anything im testing, reviewing, and generally playing around with..   Apps I have developed, but never rea...

Lead Generator

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Lead Generator   Generate fresh leads at the click of a button, dont waste time buying outdated and stale leads, generate thousands of leads in minutes from ...

Cms Rant

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After spending years implementing and delivering so many custom solutions in a variety of languages, I have constantly been looking for a complete solution t...

Global Membership card idea 2009

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Global Membership Card   ONE card to handle memberships at retail stores, shops, restaurants, cafe’s etc instead of individual membership cards, having to lo...

Very Rough high level ballpark estimate

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Here was a very high level overview of an estimate I made for a recent project. This was rewritten into a professional document

Person responsible for defect should fix it

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Person responsible for defect should be one following it up initially Defects appearing due to HTML change (support.aspx form changed form field values ...

Improve processes

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I have done a fair number of functional / technical specs for various projects, and when working on a specific project for a company, I was a little surprise...

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.NET

NodeJS or .NET For new projects

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Often the decision comes up when starting new software projects, what platform, language to develop with…..

A Quick Web API REST Refresher

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So, I have been creating and working with web api’s since the early 2000’s. First with perl cgi-bin requests, PHP simple RPC style POST/GET requests, than SO...

Dont return api exceptions as bad requests

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So recently, when looking at some new projects that have web api or azure function http endpoints, I have noticed a lack of basic understanding of http knowl...

Updated dotnet web libraries to .NET 5

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.NET Core is an awesome platform for development, out of the box, it’s lightweight, fast, and highly extensible, with good patterns to begin with.

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nodejs

NodeJS or .NET For new projects

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Often the decision comes up when starting new software projects, what platform, language to develop with…..

A Quick Web API REST Refresher

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So, I have been creating and working with web api’s since the early 2000’s. First with perl cgi-bin requests, PHP simple RPC style POST/GET requests, than SO...

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npm

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.NET Core

A Quick Web API REST Refresher

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So, I have been creating and working with web api’s since the early 2000’s. First with perl cgi-bin requests, PHP simple RPC style POST/GET requests, than SO...

Dont return api exceptions as bad requests

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So recently, when looking at some new projects that have web api or azure function http endpoints, I have noticed a lack of basic understanding of http knowl...

Updated dotnet web libraries to .NET 5

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.NET Core is an awesome platform for development, out of the box, it’s lightweight, fast, and highly extensible, with good patterns to begin with.

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typescript

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microservice

Essential Microservice Components

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I have spent the last decade or so converting monoliths to microservice based architectures, with the microservices being primarily in .NET (.NET Framework a...

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nodemon

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jest

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rest api

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C#

Updated dotnet web libraries to .NET 5

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.NET Core is an awesome platform for development, out of the box, it’s lightweight, fast, and highly extensible, with good patterns to begin with.

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nuget

NugetVersion tool updated to 1.0.5

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Over the years I have refactored many large codebases across multiple solutions, with this often comes updating of nuget packages, while you can use the VS g...

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Azure

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Linq

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SQL

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Debugging

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.NET 5

Updated dotnet web libraries to .NET 5

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.NET Core is an awesome platform for development, out of the box, it’s lightweight, fast, and highly extensible, with good patterns to begin with.

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mongodb

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jsdom

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mongoose

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Web Api

A Quick Web API REST Refresher

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So, I have been creating and working with web api’s since the early 2000’s. First with perl cgi-bin requests, PHP simple RPC style POST/GET requests, than SO...

Dont return api exceptions as bad requests

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So recently, when looking at some new projects that have web api or azure function http endpoints, I have noticed a lack of basic understanding of http knowl...

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Api

A Quick Web API REST Refresher

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So, I have been creating and working with web api’s since the early 2000’s. First with perl cgi-bin requests, PHP simple RPC style POST/GET requests, than SO...

Dont return api exceptions as bad requests

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So recently, when looking at some new projects that have web api or azure function http endpoints, I have noticed a lack of basic understanding of http knowl...

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Jekyll

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Astro

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Javascript

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TypeScript

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.NET 3.5

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Winforms

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web scraping

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Html Agility Pack

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notice

Post: Notice

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A notice displays information that explains nearby content. Often used to call attention to a particular detail.

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autoscraper

Autoscraper Lead Gen

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Lead Generation Every company needs leads to survive and grow, leads are often purchased in batches of hundreds, thousands and hundreds of thousands at varyi...

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iis

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environment variables

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configuration

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dotnetcore

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packagereference.

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Electroneum

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ASP.NET Core 3.x

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Entity Framewok Core

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Identity

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Authentication

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Azure AD

Azure Active Directory Helpers

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On a recent project, I needed to write some Azure Active Directory functionality to help with retrieving user information via C#. Here is a helper I wrote.

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.NET Core 3.1

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Nuget

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ASP.NET

Updated dotnet web libraries to .NET 5

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.NET Core is an awesome platform for development, out of the box, it’s lightweight, fast, and highly extensible, with good patterns to begin with.

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.NET Standard

Updated dotnet web libraries to .NET 5

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.NET Core is an awesome platform for development, out of the box, it’s lightweight, fast, and highly extensible, with good patterns to begin with.

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.NET Framework

Updated dotnet web libraries to .NET 5

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.NET Core is an awesome platform for development, out of the box, it’s lightweight, fast, and highly extensible, with good patterns to begin with.

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loose coupling

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logging

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angular

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android

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Resharper

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Refactoring

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Azure Storage Explorer

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LinqPad

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Visual Studio

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CMS

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Content Management System

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Wordpress

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Static Site Generators

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SSG

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Azure Devops

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Microsoft Teams

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Release Pipeline

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webassembly

Wasmer v1 released

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So V1 of wasmer) has been released, this is an exciting new platform for running webassembly (wasm) codebases anywhere on any client.

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wasmer

Wasmer v1 released

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So V1 of wasmer) has been released, this is an exciting new platform for running webassembly (wasm) codebases anywhere on any client.

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web

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future

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time management

An evolution of note taking.

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Remember Google Notes, aka mid 2005ish, somewhere around there. And Evernote came out and replaced many note taking apps, it was excellent, categorized organ...

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organization

An evolution of note taking.

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Remember Google Notes, aka mid 2005ish, somewhere around there. And Evernote came out and replaced many note taking apps, it was excellent, categorized organ...

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Research

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Crypto

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Solidity

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Ethereum

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Deno

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docker

Docker LinqPad Driver

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So recently, I have been doing a lot of docker stuff.

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linqpad

Docker LinqPad Driver

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So recently, I have been doing a lot of docker stuff.

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dotnet tool

NugetVersion tool updated to 1.0.5

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Over the years I have refactored many large codebases across multiple solutions, with this often comes updating of nuget packages, while you can use the VS g...

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dotnet global tool

NugetVersion tool updated to 1.0.5

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Over the years I have refactored many large codebases across multiple solutions, with this often comes updating of nuget packages, while you can use the VS g...

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List

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IEnumerable

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HTTP

A Quick Web API REST Refresher

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So, I have been creating and working with web api’s since the early 2000’s. First with perl cgi-bin requests, PHP simple RPC style POST/GET requests, than SO...

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Endpoints

A Quick Web API REST Refresher

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So, I have been creating and working with web api’s since the early 2000’s. First with perl cgi-bin requests, PHP simple RPC style POST/GET requests, than SO...

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REST

A Quick Web API REST Refresher

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So, I have been creating and working with web api’s since the early 2000’s. First with perl cgi-bin requests, PHP simple RPC style POST/GET requests, than SO...

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RPC

A Quick Web API REST Refresher

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So, I have been creating and working with web api’s since the early 2000’s. First with perl cgi-bin requests, PHP simple RPC style POST/GET requests, than SO...

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SAAS

Essential Microservice Components

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I have spent the last decade or so converting monoliths to microservice based architectures, with the microservices being primarily in .NET (.NET Framework a...

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.NET 7

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.NET Upgrade

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.NET Update

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.NET Solution

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Funny Code

Some funny code moments

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We have all done it at one point or another, written a piece of code and than just thought… “wtf” or “what was I thinking” or something like that. Those mome...

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Disaster Code

Some funny code moments

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We have all done it at one point or another, written a piece of code and than just thought… “wtf” or “what was I thinking” or something like that. Those mome...

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architecture

NodeJS or .NET For new projects

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Often the decision comes up when starting new software projects, what platform, language to develop with…..

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Software development

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Source Control

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git

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mercurial

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subversion

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