Category: Coding
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How to serve your static content from Azure blob with Azure’s CDN
You are using Azure and have managed to move some of your images to blob storage, that’s great, but you know what’s better? Using a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to improve the load speed and availability of your images. Azure’s CDN is there to help you with that. Main disadvantage of using a content delivery…
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How to use Azure Storage to host a static website
Have you ever tried to use one of the many cloud providers out there to host and serve a simple static website? I have, and while there are places that make it somewhat simple to accomplish this, as a developer using Azure, I’m delighted to learn that this feature (preview) is now available to all…
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Favorite New Visual Studio Code Features of 2018
Visual Studio is my favorite code editor, and the things I like the best about it is how light and extensible it is. Last week I posted some of my favorite extensions for this code editor, and today I want to show you some of the new features I like the most. Visual Studio Code is…
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Favorite Visual Studio Code Extensions of 2018
Visual Code is a fantastic code editor, but what really makes it powerful are the extensions available for it. In this post, I share some of my favorite VS Code extensions while using VS Code to develop web applications. WakaTime – Metrics, insights, and time tracking automatically generated from your programming activity. GitLens – GitLens supercharges the Git…
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Create a NuGet package from a VS project and include all referenced dependencies
It’s been a while since I had to build a NuGet package, a long while. While as a developer I use multiple NuGet packages all the time in my applications, I think I’ve created only a few of my own. Needless to say, I am a total noob when it comes to building AND publishing…
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Run code from your code editor
The other day I discovered this useful extension that allows you to run your code from within the Atom editor. The name of the extension is Script Runner, and while there are many other extensions that do this, I really like how this one shows the code results on the right side of your screen,…
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Portability vs. Extra Power – What type of laptop to use when writing code
If you had the option to select a laptop for software development, and the options where between something portable like a very capable ultralight laptop, or a much bigger, and much powerful laptop, which one would you choose? The specific models aren’t important really, as you might be reading this post many months or perhaps many…
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How to find great developers.
In response to those companies, hiring managers, interviewers who keep asking the same question: Where can I find great developers? A developer becomes a “great developer” when the company, team, resources, projects, recognition, etc., are compatible with that person. Under that logic, I believe any programmer can be great if they desire to do so…
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What can you do with Azure Functions? Here’s one example.
Last week I attended a tech conference where I learned about Azure Functions. This new service from Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform, is something that got me interested. Microsoft is promoting this new service as a server-less option for simple APIs, triggers, notifications, and anything that you can think of that can be processed by a…
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Create and Deploy a React App to Azure using .NET Core and Azure CLI on Mac
Prerequisites Install the .NET Core SDK. The .NET Core SDK includes the latest release of the .NET Core framework and runtime. Install Visual Studio Code for Mac. Install the Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) Getting Started In this tutorial, you’ll set up your Mac to do development using .NET Core and Azure. The tutorial also…