How much does it Cost to run my side projects? This is going to be an interesting look at my spending, hopefully it can show you can do a lot without breaking the bank! I have a personal Azure subscription that I pay for myself. I don’t use anything connected to my work, as jobs change and I don’t want to have to shift...
Another week has gone by so here is a rundown of my podcasts listenings… Hachyderm’s Kris Nova on running a Mastodon Server Hanselminutes episode 871 A great chat about how Hachderm grew as people moved from Twitter to Mastodon. You can find me on Hachyderm https://hachyderm.io/web/@funkysi1701 Hachyderm saw amazing...
I love listening to podcasts so I thought I would share what I have been listening to over the last few days. Source Open vs Open Source and IdentityServer with Dominick Baier and Brock Allen .Net Rocks episode 1824 The creators of the open source project Identity Server which went commercial discuss the reasons for...
As 2022 draws to a close its time to do my annual look back at what happened. I am going to talk a bit about my personal life as well as tech things, so if that is not your bag feel free to skip this post and read my more technical articles. January - I started the year teaching my son to code . February - I did some...
On Saturday 3rd December I attended DDD North . It is a community run conference for Developers (the D’s stand for Developer) and I had a fab time there. Many conferences are going online which is great, however there is nothing quite like chatting over coffee or lunch with fellow Developers about the tech you are...
This morning the client complains that the website is not working. I do some checking and I confirm that there is indeed an error. The error they are seeing is: An unhandled exception occurred while processing the request. MsalServiceException: A configuration issue is preventing authentication - check the error...
I have a Blazor application that was built with .Net Core 3, and I have updated it to .Net 5 and later .Net 6 when those versions of were released. In November .Net 7 is released so I have been testing it with the .Net 7 previews. However for this update I encountered a few more issues than I remember from the other...
Programming is in my DNA, so when I had children it was obvious that I would attempt to share my passion. It has taken a while, for some reason for loops don’t interest toddlers! However my 7 year old son has got a taste for it now. It was his birthday the other day and he got quite a few tech related things. First off...
I have been thinking back to when I started using source control and some of the different tools I have used over the years. When I was learning to code it was some time after I had learned the basics that I learnt about source control. Back when I started writing webpages I would have a folder containing all my html,...
I use keyboard shortcuts all the time, mostly without thinking, but they can be quite a time saver especially for frequently used tasks. I recently came across this list of Visual Studio ones. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/default-keyboard-shortcuts-in-visual-studio?view=vs-2022 I was going to do a...