Global pandemic, work-from-home and washing your hands 80 times a day.
2020-10-29 - quarantine, wfh, life stuffSpent a few hours with (again) with Pico-8 and Lua to dabble about.
2020-04-27 - Pico-8, LuaI was in Austin TX for the SpringOne Platform conference, here's some highlights from a .net dev's persective.
2019-10-12 - pivotal, spring, conference, itqA quick guide on how to transfer comic books to your Amazon Kindle.
2019-07-19 - comics, kindle, e-readerA little gotcha when using a .net core app in a container on Azure that needs environment variables.
2019-05-04 - docker, containers, dotnet core, azure, itqPlatforms, apps, containers, functions, what?!
2019-03-05 - containers, apps, cloud foundry, kubernetes, itqA look at loading configuration using SteelToe and making it injectable
2019-01-11 - cloud foundry, steeltoe, aspnet core, dotnetcore, itqUsing ILogger to write logs on Cloud Foundry
2019-01-10 - cloud foundry, asp.net core, dotnet core, logging, itqHow to set up hosting for your static website on Azure Storage
2019-01-03 - azure, static website, itqA year gone by, so what's going on.
2018-12-23 - recap, 2018A quick little tip to get rid of some garbage on the start screen of your TV.
2018-09-26 - sony smart tv, androidAnother exam done, I am now a Pivotal certified CF developer!
2018-06-28 - Pivotal, Cloud Foundry, certification, itqA barebones grid in just a few lines of CSS.
2018-05-11 - css, flex, itqTook the exam and now I'm Cloud Foundry certified!
2018-04-09 - Cloud Foundry, certification, cfcd, itqEnable multiple listeners on a Service Fabric service and seperate the entrypoint of the service from the actual implementation.
2018-03-31 - Azure, Service Fabric, C#, Microservices, itqA get-up-and-go with the Angular CLI and dotnet core.
2018-01-02 - Angular, Angular CLI, dotnet core, aspnet core, itqLift-and-shift, Azure Servic Fabric, Minecraft
2017-10-14 - Azure, Service Fabric, Microsoft, itqUpload (smallish) images (with preview) with some Javascript and HTML
2017-07-31 - HTML, Javascript, itqOne of the most helpful things I've seen in videogames in a long time.
2017-07-25 - Gaming, NintendoA complete refresh of the blog!
2017-07-20 - BlogA little hack to enable tethering on your Android device when it's blocked by your operator.
2017-05-01 - Android, LineageOSUser secrets are what you use for settings in a dotnet core app that you don't want leaking into your repos.
2017-04-20 - Dotnet Core, itqUp and running with the new dotnet core tools.
2017-04-09 - Dotnet Core, itqI play video games every now and then and I've recently discovered a game (that was in my Steam library for quite some time already) that gives me the same sensation as when I'm programming.
2017-02-08 - Gaming, FactorioAnother angular post! This time we take a look at how to create a directive that ensures the user enters a valid date (and/or time).
2016-10-27 - Javascript, Angular, itqWhile working an Angular (1) web app I ran into the age old problem of showing the user notifications when certain conditions are met.
2016-09-15 - Javascript, Angular, HTML, CSS, itqI was grinding my teeth on a z-index problem today. I found out about the dialog element and all was saved.
2016-07-06 - Javascript, HTML, CSS, itqSetting up a webserver with Node and Express.
2016-06-03 - Javascript, Node, Express, itqI've been having some more fun with Cloud Foundry deploying Node apps and wanted the apps to communicate in a more disconnected way.
2016-05-27 - Javascript, Cloud Foundry, RabbitMQ, itqMy current project involves an interface that is 100% touch driven (no keyboard and mouse) and I was asked to turn a regular old checkbox into a toggle switch.
2016-04-27 - HTML, CSS, itqA look at deploying a dotnet core app on Cloud Foundry.
2016-03-30 - Dotnet core, Cloud Foundry, itqHere is a small problem I ran into while working on my current project.
2016-03-02 - C#, Entity Framework, Databases, itqHere is another loading indicator for when your webpage is busy waiting for a server request to come back with an answer.
2016-01-14 - HTML, CSSSo you want to post some JSON to an ASP. Here's a quick primer.
2016-01-12 - Javascript, jQuery, C#, ASP.NETDual screen setups are great for work but you can't always have two of the same size/model side by side.
2016-01-06 - Hardware, Display, itqAnimations and transforms using CSS and HTML.
2015-12-01 - CSS, HTML, itqHere is a little hack you can do to enable transformations in App.config.
2015-11-13 - C#, Configuration transforms, itqOn the 2nd and 3rd November in 2015, the Cloud Foundry Foundation was in Berlin. I attended and here are my thoughts.
2015-11-04 - Cloud Foundry, Conventions, itqSpotify recently updated the desktop app again and it is once again possible to read current track info directly from it.
2015-10-09 - C#, SpotifyAfter saving up money for a while I bought myself a new desktop PC.
2015-09-23 - Hardware, PCEvery solution I've worked on required some form of communication via e-mail or other form of text to the outside world, reporting, notifications or something else.
2015-07-07 - C#, String templating, itqIf you've ever used something like LESS or SASS you know what a variable is in CSS.
2015-06-22 - CSS, itqFor that one time you need release notes but forgot to track what was changed.
2015-05-21 - TFS, Release notesEnd-users interact with your applications via the user interface (UI for short). Here are some simple things to spice it up.
2015-05-19 - CSS, Transitions, itqWhen you work on software, you will at some point encounter bugs.
2015-05-12 - BugsA quick look at a different approach to data access code in C#.
2015-05-06 - C#, Data accessLong running processes in a web applicatoin running on IIS is a bad idea.
2015-04-26 - C#, Windows Service, Debugging, itqA hobby project of mine needed to generate an RSS feed.
2015-04-26 - C#, RSS, ASP.NET, System.ServiceModel, itqAlright, lets dive straight into the deep end and take a look at Inversion of Control.
2015-04-26 - C#, IoC, Dependency injection, itqLet's take a look at how to replace the workings of one function with that of another.
2015-04-26 - Javascript, itqMy go-to container for IoC at the moment is SimpleInjector because you know, simple.
2015-04-26 - C#, Dependency injection, SignalR, itqI had a brainwave and dove into codepen for a little bit to doodle around and when I emerged I had this simple little loading indicator.
2015-04-26 - CSS, HTML, itq