Aerobic Septic System Monitor - Part 2 - Beta Testing
The beta testing chapter is a look at each of the different components that make up the Aerobic Septic System Monitor. Each section is an exercise in connect...
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Aerobic Septic System Monitor - Part 1 - Overview
Recently I had an incident where sewer gas had forced it’s way into the house. Among the question of how this happened was the obvious question “Is the aerob...
Typora - A New Type of Markdown Editor
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SphereBot
Meet the SphereBot, an Eggbot clone. This project started many years ago when my daughter decide she was going to show chickens at the county fair. For those...
Why are you NOT using Visual Studio Code!
Seriously, in the last 2-3 years VS Code has surpassed editors like Vim, Notepad++, Atom, Siblime Text, etc. VS Code is a top shelf open-source editor that...
Adding Authentication/Authorization Information to Swagger API Documentation with Swashbuckle
I’ve always wished swagger documentation included authentication and more importantly authorization information for each API call. Fortunately, Swashbuckle c...
Expresso
Recently a colleage of mine introduced me to a network AI tool our company had begun to use. The tool allows you to setup different types of pattern matchi...
Swashbuckle Custom Ordering of Controllers
This article is an adaptation of an article written by Rob Janssen (RobIII) in 2018 on customizing the order in which controllers are display in the Swagger ...
Outputting Build Numbers in your Azure DevOps Pipeline Artifacts
In the process of deploying and then testing code to development and staging environments there is always that question in the back of your head… Is the code...
NuGet Package Explorer (NPE)
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The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
The Manager Path is written as a guide for those in the IT industry by author Camille Fournier a former developer turned CTO, that takes the reader through t...
Entity Framework Core in Action
Overall “Entity Framework Core in Action” was a good read with a lot of useful information. If you have been using Entity Framework prior to .NET Core the a...
Unit Testing ASP.NET Core Identity
I had the opportunity to work on an authentication/account management Web API in which we use the new ASP.NET Core Identity. ASP.NET Core Identity is easy t...
XML Notepad 2007
Here is an old one, but a good one and you can’t beat the price…FREE! XML Notepad is exactly what you would think it is, a stand alone XML editor that goes ...
Balsamiq Mockups - A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
A picture is worth a thousand words. So when it comes to showing your users what the application is going to look like Balsamiq Mockups (https://balsamiq.com...
Working with JSON
If you’re doing anything web services that return JSON here are some useful tools.
The Standard by Which All Others Will Be Judged
Meet the standard…Fitz’s Black Chery (Fitz’s). So why is this the standard all others must meet. Well besides the simple fact that it taste great let’s loo...
Website Versioning Revisited
A while back I took a look at versioning web applications using an AssemblyInfo file (see ‘Adding Versioning Information to Your Website using AssemblyInfo’...
Source Control Best Practices
If you want any number of reasons for using source control just Google it. This article is really just a regurgitation of so many others thoughts on the sub...
Adding Versioning Information to Your Website using AssemblyInfo
Update: Check out ‘Website Versioning Revisited’