(Not so) Stupid Question 294: Where in a release cycle does a perpetual beta...
All software has one or several release cycles. Even if it’s not planned, there is always an underlying concept of a release cycle. A discussion around the when’s and where’s. Another discussion around...
View Article‘Windows/Microsoft support team’ calls again (scam call recorded)
This is an old blog post I never published (I simply forgot about it). After getting 2-3 daily calls from ‘MS support’ the last few weeks as a retaliation for me messing with them I decided it was...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to execute JavaScript on a page and outputting the result
Earlier this week I was putting together a PowerShell background service to generate some reports. The reports where based on some queries run against our databases in the different environments, as...
View ArticleInstallation of mongodb on windows as a service with powershell
Yesterday ‘the’ day finally came. The day I got the A-Okay to set up a document database for our system. While I certainly appreciate MS SQL and alike there are different types of databases to cover...
View Article(Not so) Stupid Question 295: What is a retrospective? (How our team does...
I’m in Lisbon enjoying Websummit, a conference with over 53 000 attendees! Leaving the snow behind I travelled here with the majority of the Konstrukt team to pitch our startup as a part of the ALPHA...
View ArticleTen ways to minimize Azure costs
Our team went all in in when we went to the cloud, and with full access to the accounts and the cards registered to them we gladly started shopping around trying out X and Y on Azure. Before we knew it...
View ArticleError: Please run “dnu restore” to generate a new lock file
Well thank you for that helpful message Mr restore Nuget packages. I had done a pull and tried to build the solution which in turn tries to restore the packages. That failed and I was prompted to do it...
View ArticlePowershell: Using variable members in a string
Recently I decided to list my community contributions so if anybody, for whatever reason, was interested I would have everything collected in one place. I pulled some data from my blog, and an excel...
View ArticleSummary of what’s new in Visual Studio 2017: IDE specific changes and what’s...
The release candidate can be downloaded here Let’s dense this down. Here it is (or at least some of it). I’ll have to write a specific post on language specific changes 😀 – so many 😀 VS 33% faster...
View ArticleWeather API in five minutes
I have been working on my wardrobe application and added the weather feature a few days ago. I try to find time to finish the application, but it’s going slower than I wish it did. Last Saturday I...
View Article(Not so) Stupid Question 296: What are the pros and cons of excluding folders...
It was late and I was looking through my drafts of future ‘Tip of the Day!’ which I tweet out on daily basis. A colleague had mentioned to me that I could exclude certain folders to improve performance...
View ArticleLast weeks ‘Tip of the Day’
For those of you that missed out on last weeks TOD’s, here they are: Measure Azure Region Speeds One of the first things I learned the hard way about Azure and performance is how much the choice of...
View ArticleStep by step Macros for Visual Studio
I was asked for a simple example showing how to use/get started with the Macros for Visual Studio extension I mentioned a efw days ago on Twitter. Here is a simple ‘get-started’ I threw together today....
View ArticleI would love some feedback on my book (draft)
I have been writing on a book to get a first experience with self publishing and I need some your honest opinion. If you are a .Net developer and/or IT Professional (Windows) and you would like to get...
View ArticleLast weeks Tip of the Day 2
Hire Mac build agents for ios development on Windows If you arent so keen on a Mac (and using Visual Studio for Mac) but do ios development then you can hire build agents over at MacinCloud for VSTS....
View ArticleHow to script/export data and or schema from MSSQL tables
Although I’m sure this is something a lot of developers know and have done before I’m adding this post as a how-to for some of the consultants for our product. Not all of them are used to working with...
View ArticleArray not an array? Why forEach() can’t be found
The other day I was scraping some information from the Dropbox site. The content was comments on my second draft on my book Loose Candy- which (at the time, this might have changed) were not...
View ArticleMy second book Loose Candy is out!
After half a year of writing, editing and formatting, I have finally finished and published my book Loose Candy! I wanted to see how the self publishing process was like after publishing with O’Reilly...
View Article(Not so) Stupid Question 297 & 298: What is a subsea datacenter and what is...
Alright, I’m back from a longer break from the blog due to surgery and book writing 🙂 I’ll find some time to write about that, as well as what is going on in my life. But first, let’s have a look at...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 templates and the missing content
As we are slowly migrating our solution, a group of microservices, to .NET Core I decided to throw together a template with boilerplate code that we want to keep within the project. But, for some odd...
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