MANY articles on a wide array of topics. You’ll find a lot of my newer content is going to my YouTube channel first, but I do still blog occasionally.
If you're working with git, especially with open source, sometimes you'll find that you want to work with a particular pull request, or PR, locally. This article shows how to do so using the git command line.
I've worked with many clients who are upgrading from EF 6 to EF Core. Many of them are coming from EDMX files, and are wondering what the best approach is in EF Core to configure entities based on the database (or vice …
Last updated: 13 October 2023 Recently I’ve been looking at different ways to generate code coverage reports during automated builds. I’m mostly working with Azure DevOps for builds these days, as …
How to test live API endpoints with xUnit using environment variables for configuration, including handling authorization with IdentityServer.
GitHub only lets you fork a repository once. And it doesn't offer any way to update that fork from the web interface. So, once you've got a fork, you have a snapshot-in-time of the original repository, but if a few …
Recently I was working on some WinForms and classic MVC (not Core) apps built with ASP.NET and migrating them to Azure using containers. There's a repo with samples and an ebook on modernizing your.NET apps so they can …
I’ve written previously about how to set the window title in PowerShell. Unfortunately, it’s a little complicated. Recently on twitter, though, Greg MacLellan showed me how to create an alias so you can just …
If you want to avoid forgetting something in the heat of the moment, us a checklist. This checklist features all of the things a technical speaker should be remembering to do in the last hour before their talk. Check it …
About 20 years ago I read the book, Horse Sense, by Al Ries and Jack Trout. The authors posit, “The key to success if finding a horse to ride.” In the authors typically direct and simple style, filled with …
All too often we hear about a site going down or suffering problems because they've let their public x509 certificate expire. SSL certificates, which are required for HTTPS to work for secure connections using TLS to …