Essential Tools to find bugs... before they get to production

Developers now have access to free and inexpensive developer tools that can help find and fix many common application problems. These new APM tools are now an essential part of every developer’s tool set. Show me the tools!

Extending the Start/Stop VMs during off-hours solution

Microsoft has a great collection of pre-built solutions for Azure Automation that you can leverage to realize many common use cases. One of these common scenarios is when a company has many virtual machines ...

A VS Extension That Will Make You a Better Developer

It’s a bold claim to say an IDE extension can make you a better developer, but you should install this new Pluralsight extension and see for yourself. What do you do when you run into a coding problem? ...

Scott Allen on C#, .NET Core and Blazor

Pluralsight is launching its brand new podcast today, All Hands on Tech.For our first episode, I got the opportunity to speak with the one and only Scott Allen!If you’re a .NET Developer you likely already ...

http client gets data from service call

using (var client = new HttpClient()) { string contentType = "application/json"; client.DefaultRequestHeader... MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderV... var response = client.GetAsync(baseuri).Re... ...

Azure Pipelines, Total ALM - Tokenization Task doesn't support multiple file names

On this task, the doco says you can have multiple Target Filesnames separated by commas. To get this to work, don’t put a space after the comma ...

Intel's Clear Linux: First Impressions

I've been using Linux since 1996, and I've used so many distributions I've lost count. In fact, I'm kind of weirdo about it. I love spinning up new distributions of Linux and testing them out.It's as if ...

Demystifiying IIS Application Pools

Application Pools in IIS can be somewhat of a mystery. Since they’re created for you automatically many times Administrators don’t give them a second thought. But understanding application pools is crucial ...

A review of the Logitech MX Series Mouse and Keyboard for developers.

A few weeks ago, I got an early opportunity to test out the new Logitech MX Series Mouse and Keyboard "designed specifically for Software Developers" (as opposed to most high-end stuff which appeals to ...

My blog has now moved to http://ralphwillgoss.github.io

My Blog has now moved to http://ralphwillgoss.github.io

My Favorite Web Development Courses

Ever since the dark ages of 2011 when my manager suggested signing up for Pluralsight, I have been taking heaps courses with them. It's guided my career in so many ways. So many times my workflow has been ...

New Test

ArchitectureWhat is the “environment” The application environment consists in 3 main areas: Infrastructure Configuration Dependencies Infrastructure is the most important element of the environment, as ...

talking shop

Notes or ways to say and convey ideas:I am close to that problem.The problem we are facing is:while triaging issue, errors came that prevented moving forwardin order to update status on issues, these conditions ...

Getting Back Into The Swing

It has been forever since I have posted to this blog. Since I have spending all my time working on a revision of a .NET Windows Service and ASP.NET Web Forms application I have been feeling the need to ...

Code Monkey Projectiles - Index

I have been blogging since December 2013. It was my New Year's resolution for 2014 to write 2 blog posts a month for that year. I followed my resolution until September (not too shabby). However, I still ...

My 5 Favorite Software Design Principles

I'm looking for honest feedback on my content. Please comment or reach out to me on Twitter!Building software is easy. Building well designed, good software is hard. Very hard. I've been writing code since ...

SharePoint and Office 365 Saturday Charlotte–August 2019

We held another successful SharePoint (and Office 365) Saturday in Charlotte yesterday (August 10, 2019). Great turnout for attendees, speakers, and sponsors. I presented an updated version of the talk ...

End of an era

After many happy years blogging at geekswithblogs.net it's time for a change to a new, modern blogging platform. Going forward you will find my new content at https://darren.gosbell.com ...

The Top 10 Books on DevOps You Need to Read

I’ve been doing DevOps for a few years now, and I think I’m pretty good at it. Over these years I’ve read some books that really helped me along the way, here they are.1. The DevOps HandbookThis book is ...

The 17-Layered App

My last post discussed a high-level software architecture breaking down an application into user interface, business, and data layers. That is a very abstract overview, which is open to a lot of interpretation. ...

The 3-Layered App

I have done a few talks on Dependency Inversion Principle and breaking down an application into 3 tiers: User Interface, Business Layer, and Data Layer. It is a gross over simplification of software architecture ...

How to Nail Your Next Coding Interview

The room is silent except for the buzzing of the fluorescent lights. The judges across the table are staring at you, expressionless. Some have pen and paper, some don’t. They’re all staring at you. Your ...

Creating Trimmed Self Contained Executables in .NET Core

I’m going to show you a cool new feature in .NET Core 3.0.Let’s say you want to create a simple, lean executable you can build and drop on to a server.For an example we’ll create a console app that opens ...

You Can Get the Source Code for Apollo 11 and Even Take a Course on It

In software development you’ll hear the term “moon shot”. If something is a “moon shot” it’s something that’s extraordinarily difficult, like landing on the moon. We say this about some app doing something ...

Reusable Code: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Your time is precious, and technology changes fast. Knowing which technologies are relevant means you can focus on the skills that will benefit your career the most.Click here for a free reportThe mythical ...

No Longer a Microsoft MVP–Hello MVP Reconnect

Today marks the first time in nearly a decade that I am no longer an MVP. I will be joining the MVP alum in the MVP Reconnect program. Getting the MVP award every year has become a great side benefit and ...

Transforming Your Organization With the Andon Cord

Your time is precious, and technology changes fast. Knowing which technologies are relevant means you can focus on the skills that will benefit your career the most.Click here for a free report Imagine ...

DAX Studio 2.9.0 Released

A new update to DAX Studio is now available at https://daxstudio.org which includes the following: New Features Import Power BI Performance Data Support for Display Folders in the Metadata pane #127 Added ...

Using DISM to Create a Repeatable IIS Installation

Your time is precious, and technology changes fast. Knowing which technologies are relevant means you can focus on the skills that will benefit your career the most.Click here for a free report Repeatable ...

Is building software like building a house, and more importantly, should it be?

There's a high-profile lawsuit in my industry right now, and as a result,some fascinating (and perhaps lonog-overdue) conversations are taking place.There are people who equate building software to building ...

Never Loose Stuff Again

The world of software is dominated with what the tech. giants tell their developers during each ones annual summer conferences. Facebook, Apple and Google all have U.S events in May/June, with each competing ...

TDS!

Digging a little deeper. Wow, who knew ---https://docs.microsoft.c... think what the (IMHO) is to have first class support ...

GE Washing Machine WCVH6800J1WW no high speed spin cycle

So save yourself $75 and buy the SAMSUNG OEM Original Part: DC34-00024B Washer Door Lock Switch Solenoid for $15 instead of the the $90 GE part It is a very simple fix and like the video below says, it ...

Important Reasons Why to Use WordPress to Build Your Website

WordPress was launched in 2003 and ever since then it has been growing in its popularity of being the most preferred CMS to build amazing websites. It has been accepted by not only small startups but also ...

Top iPhone App Development Trends that will Rule in 2019

Apple’s iPhones are one of the most popular smartphones around the world. People are so fond of Apple’s products that they stand in queues to buy their favorite iPhone whenever it is released. Good thing ...

ODBC Progress On ServerSide Swift

So with thanks to they guys at IBM (credited on the GitHub Page).I’ve started work on an ODBC SwiftKuery database driver. https://github.com/richardp... contributions welcome.I’ve ...

All That You Need To Know About New Iphone 2019 Release Date

The world market is abuzz with the iPhone 2019 rumours and the best part about it is that most of the fans and the users of iPhone love it when they hear something new about the upcoming versions of iPhone. ...

No one takes you seriously when you are young

This blog has move to: http://hornedowl.net/There is something that we all share, something that frustrates us immensely. It's not being taken seriously… Well, there's probably more things that frustrate ...

Quality Assurance companies in the World in 2019?

Xicom is best company among quality assurance testing companies when we compare them on several fronts like quality, professionalism, standards, timeframe and cost of service etc. Xicom is an ISO 9001 ...

Fixing incorrect date formats in Power BI Report Server when using Chrome or Firefox

We are using Power BI Report server to publish Power BI Reports internally. And being in Australia we use a “sensible” date format of dd/mm/yyyy However at a recent showcase with some of our end users ...

Factors that Lead to Successful Ecommerce Development

Ecommerce websites and businesses come with a lot of profit tag and this is the reason why we see so much competition in the ecommerce sector. After all, it has become so much easier for the businessmen ...

Bringing ODBC To Server Side Swift

So disclaimer, this isn’t finished by any standard, but I wanted to document how far I’ve got so far. GoalTo be able to connect http://vapor.codes to an ODBC data source. Primarily I wanted to be able ...

[Powershell Series] Creating Graphical User Interfaces – Working with rows and columns

This blog has move to: http://hornedowl.net/Rows and columns are things I've recently started to dive in to since I was getting fairly annoyed when I was building larger user interfaces. They're pretty ...

[Powershell Series] Creating Graphical User Interfaces – The basics

This blog has move to: http://hornedowl.net/So, you've been writing PowerShell Scripts that interact with users and figured "Hey, I really don't want to listen to the complaints that this it is archaic ...

Values Statement

A few months ago, the company I work for redid their corporate vision/mission statement. It was a very positive process. It holds people accountable and makes sure that everyone behaves in a way that supports ...

DAX Studio Parameters Dialog

I recently updated the documentation on daxstudio.org to include a page on the Parameter Support, but I thought this might also benefit from a longer explanation. It may surprise some people to hear this, ...

[Powershell Series] Creating Graphical User Interfaces

In this series I will go over everything I've learned to date about working with GUI's for PowerShell. Hopefully it will help you out with learning how to build user interfaces that are a bit more user ...

It’s been a long time, my dear…

March the 28th, 2016. The date I published my last blog post… It's been a long time indeed. And in those mere 3 years a lot of things happened to my life. Not that that is supposed to be an excuse or anything, ...

Unprofessional Software Professionals

Before I talk about the software professionals, let me first say a little something about American politics. Boy, this blog post has gone off the rails quickly. Don’t worry; I won’t talk about Trump. Here ...

WSL, git, ssh keys, and a partridge in a pear tree

(Note post is first draft)Just ran into this tonight, setting up a new machine to actually run Ubuntu Bash via WSL. I was trying to use git in the WSL ubuntu shell and use ssh keys. Also found that after ...