2022 Year in Review
A review of my online content, goals, etc. from 2022 written in early(ish) 2023.
Blog Posts
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.
Chrome Browser Tabs to Links
You have a bunch of tabs open from troubleshooting a problem. You just solved it! Now before closing all those tabs, copy them to links so you have them for reference when you post your answer on your blog or forum of …
Monitor Sites with Uptime Robot or Your Own Process
If you have your own web sites or apps that you maintain, it's helpful to know when they're not working. One tool I've been using for a long time is a site called Uptime Robot. Of course, with just a little bit of code …
Delete dotnet bin and obj folders recursively
Although Visual Studio and the dotnet CLI both offer clean commands, neither one really cleans up bin and obj files generated by the build process, and often things are left behind that cause problems. Here's how to …
Microsoft Account Azure Login Problem Resolved
In November 2022, I started having problems logging into the Azure portal with my Microsoft Account that I've had for years, and which worked elsewhere. I managed to resolve the issue finally with the help of a Microsoft …
Add All Projects to Solution with dotnet CLI
If you need to just create a new solution file with all projects in all subfolders in it, this should work for you.
Scaling Redis
Scaling Redis using a Redis Cluster or ScaleOut Software's In-Memory Datebase.
Introducing Spectre.Console
Spectre.Console is a dotnet library for making beautiful, more useful console applications.
Connect to Linux with ssh
If you have a linux VM you need to work on, the typical way to connect to it is with ssh. Here's how to get started.
Rainbow Colorized Brackets in Visual Studio
A popular extension and later core feature of VS Code, rainbow bracket colorization is now available as a free extension for Visual Studio.