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Guide to Naming Resources in Azure

Naming resource groups and resources in Azure in a consistent manner is challenging. The naming guidance by Microsoft is quite good and is a good starting point. Naming Resource Groups In most modern systems you will have resource groups for each of your environments.

LastPass Autofill Rules

LastPass is a very convenient tool for managing and autofilling usernames and passwords on internet sites. How does LastPass determine which inputs to autofill? My research and testing showed that LastPass as of 2/18/2019 uses the following rules. There must be at

Query Store Added to SQL Server 2016

In order to understand a system's performance you need to have baseline data. The Query Store is a tool provided by SQL Server to capture baseline data. The Query Store is new SQL Server 2016 and is available in all editions. There are some

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Preferred .NET Open Source Packages - Q2 2018

Database Migration RoundhousE DbUp Inversion of Control Container Autofac Logging Serilog NLog Mapping AutoMapper Mediator/Command Handler/Pipeline MediatR Testing XUnit Fake It Easy Approval Tests Shouldly Fluent Assertions Validation Fluent Validation

ASP .NET Core Logging with Serilog

The de facto loggers in the .NET space have historically been log4net and NLog. Along comes Serilog and it has a more metadata"y" approach that they describe as structured events. Serilog fits in extremely well with modern aggregated logging services like

Planning Azure Resource Groups

When building a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipeline in Azure it's important to plan out your resource groups ahead of time. The unit of containment in Azure for a resource, e.g. database, VM(virtual machine), or blob storage, is a RG(resource group)

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Bare Minimum Business Website Monitoring

Let's look at the bare minimum amount of monitoring every business critical website needs. This is the absolutely least amount of monitoring you should have in place. You need to make sure the site is up and available so you need at least some

vsts

VSTS Extension: Tags Manager

When using VSTS it's recommended to use tags liberally to help with identifying and categorizing work items. Over time people will tag work items with different tags for the same purpose. For example, one developer may tag a card as v1.0 and another

c#

F# vs C#

Every year I dabble with F# for several weeks. I did this again during the 2016 holiday break. Before I forget what I learned this break I thought it would be good to recap the major benefits of F# over C#. Better Default Equality

Documenting APIs in ASP .NET Core

Thanks to Swagger and the ecosystem surrounding Swagger it's straight forward to develop great documentation for your ASP .NET Core Web APIs. There is a .NET/C# project called Swashbuckle that will generate Swagger compatible documentation and output html documentation. The Swashbuckle project for

Recommended NPM Packages Q2 2016

I want to be as fast and efficient as possible when writing Node.js code. I have found the key to this is discovering and using the "right" NPM packages. When walking into new territory I have found that determining the "

Slack in 10 Minutes or Less

Slack is the new hotness in team IM (instant messaging) tools. It is a great business communication tool that can greatly improve communication within your organization. Slack features the ability to add and remove people from an organization much like Github. You really only

ASP .NET MVC CSRF Breakdown

Cross-Site Request Forgery(CSRF) is in the Open Web Application Security Project(OWASP) top 10 2013 edition. OWASP is a non profit organization that produces a list of the top security vulnerabilities in order to help improve web software security. In the top 10

bash

Bash for Everyone

I have been using the bash shell increasingly on my macbook pro to get stuff done. I haven't used the power of the bash shell extensively since college. Here is a fun Bash kata. For Fun (mac only) > say -v zarvox 'All your

game dev

2014 Big Giant List of Free Game Dev Resources

Here is the 2014 Big Giant List of free (or low cost) game development resources. Fonts An often under looked aspect of games is picking a font that fits the aesthetics of the game. Da Font A mega library of mostly free fonts! Be

Is C# Missing Traits?

Does C# need "traits"? It's always interesting to look at other programming languages for features that aren't available in your main programming language. First, what the heck is a trait? Traits are a language construct that is unique to Scala. Let's check

Intro to Group Theory

I took several courses on Abstract Algebra as an undergrad and graduate student in college. One core aspect of Abstract Algebra that we studied was Group Theory. Group theory is an underpinning of Category theory which has shown up quite a bit in programming

audio

Audio Tools for Game Development

Developing audio for video games can be quite an intricate and complex task. Great audio can make a game with simple graphics seem quite sophisticated. Many of the early 8-bit video games had memorable musical scores. The task of creating custom audio can be

tips and tricks

Global Conditional Compilation with Unity3D

I am developing a Unity(4.3.4) game and need to toggle features on and off between the Lite and Standard version. The Lite version contains ads and is free, while the Standard version costs 99 cents. One technique for doing this in

windows8

Pixel Hero - Windows 8 App Post Mortem

This blog post just didn't want to get out the door so it's being published almost half a year late:) I published a Windows 8 app, Pixel Hero late Saturday night (9/7/2013) into what is now called the Windows Marketplace. Apps published

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Nuget Packages You Should Know About

In order to build software quickly we stand on the shoulder of giants. The .NET ecosystem has many great software packages that can be leveraged to speed up your development cycle. Here is a list of packages available via NuGet that will land you

mongodb

MongoDB Utilities

MongoDB comes with several very useful utilities for managing data. You can restore data from a MongoDB dump with the following command: mongorestore dump You can import data from a csv file with the following command: mongoimport --type csv --headerline weather_data.csv -d

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Installing MongoDB on Mac OS X

Here is a quick guide for installing MongoDb for developers. Download file curl http://downloads.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.4.7.tgz > mongodb.tgz Extract file tar -zxvf mongodb.tgz Move files to usr/local folder mv mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.4.7/ /usr/

javascript

Understanding Strict Mode in JavaScript

Strict mode is enabled in a JavaScript program by adding a special string constant at the beginning of the program: "use strict"; Also, you can enable strict mode for a function by placing the string constant at the beginning of the function

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It's Alive!!! Building Objects in JavaScript

It's overwhelming the number of ways you can construct objects in JavaScript. In this article I will tackle the various ways to build objects (including inheritance). The basic techniques for creating objects are: Simple Objects Constructors Simple Inheritance Inheritance method used by CoffeeScript Inheritance