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Deploying ASP.Net Boilerplate Apps for Devs in a Hurry
I've deployed two apps based on ASP.Net Boilerplate (Angular + ASP.Net Core) through to production. The second used Azure Kubernetes Services. It's slick, sophisticated, self-healing, extremely...
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Six Lessons Learned and a New Tool Published After Organizing My 1st Virtual...
6 lessons learned while moving the NoVA Code Camp online, and announcing Sessionized, a new open source app for Code Camp organizers2020 hasn't generally been an awesome experience, fortunately...
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Add Superpowers to Your Next ASP.NET Project with the ABP Framework
Two years ago I discovered ASP.Net Boilerplate and on two subsequent projects realized enormous time savings and quality improvements thanks to it. The ABP Framework (aka ABP.IO) is the next version...
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The One Thing I Wish I'd Known Before Using Cake
Set yourself up for success on your next DevOps project by avoiding this gnarly Cake mistake Let's cut to the chase: A little known Werner Heisenberg axiom discovered during his 1927 quantum physics...
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Cake Frosting: More Maintainable C# DevOps
This week Cake V1.0 was released and with it: an upgrade to Frosting, a more robust technique for writing DevOps in a language the whole team can understand. The timing is fantastic, because last week...
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2 Ways to Log the Current User in ASP.Net Core
How to automatically add current user info to logs in ASP.Net Core. First shown in ASP.Net Boilerplate with log4net. Next shown in ABP Framework with the Microsoft Logging Framework and Serilog.If...
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Stop Saving to Disk with C# Asynchronous Streams
My journey to solve a hard performance problem with a newish language feature: asynchronous streams. Explains what asynchrnous streams are, and shows a real world problem they can solve.Recently I...
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6 Ways I'm Improving Mental Health in 2022
I sincerely hope you'll find some inspiration here. I'm temporarily veering away from my traditional topics of .NET, OSS, and Maker content. I share a personal story related to mental health. I want...
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5 Ways to Supercharge Your Productivity with GitHub Copilot
The new AI coding assistant from GitHub can help increase your speed, quality, and efficiency. Here's 5 tips to get you started.Copilot recently saved my bacon. I had a tight three-week deadline and a...
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MAUI Sounds Amazing. Is It?
You're ready for .NET MAUI, but is it ready for you? In this post I share my real-world experience of Microsoft's latest write-once deploy-anywhere solution.Technology vendors have promised write-once,...
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Master ChatGPT Today or Risk Obsolescence Tomorrow
As a dev I tried ChatGPT for a week instead of search engines, official docs, and Stack Overflow. Here's what I learned. Since ChatGPT is all the rage I thought I'd try it for couple weeks instead of...
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How To Deploy EF Database Migrations
How to deploy Entity Framework Database Migrations across multiple environments, revert migrations, and support complex migrations, all while avoiding security flags. Managing stateful data is...
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MS Build 2023: Must-See Sessions
I've been to every single Microsoft Build conference one save since it started in 2011. It's one of my favorite conferences, and I'm so excited that it will be in-person again this year after a two...
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How To Decrease ABP's Azure Costs by An Order of Magnitude
The Azure SQL Serverless SKU can save you a lot of money, but only if you know how to take advantage of it. This post will show you how to minimize costs, particularly if you use the ABP Framework. As...
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My Battle with Docker Desktop: Solving "Failed to Resolve Reference" and...
After hours of troubleshooting Docker Desktop on Windows, I finally resolved a series of frustrating issues caused by misconfigured network settings. Here’s a summary of my fight, with all the error...
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