Of all the (programming) languages you can learn, I think SQL is the one that will help you the most throughout your career as a software developer. If you know the basics of SQL, you can solve set based problems directly in your database without writing a ton of code to do the same in an imperative way. And your applications will run much faster if they only fetch the data you really need.
Sometimes Visual Studio is strange. As I tried to disable a StyleCop rule in Visual Studio 2022, I got this error:
In this spring cleaning we had to update our last application to .Net 4.8. Unfortunately, the project is rather big:
While debugging a strange problem with a web application, I wanted to turn of JavaScript for one single tab in Chrome. As it turns out, you can do that in the developer tools without disabling JavaScript for the whole browser.
Blazor Train is a free, extensive course on Microsoft Blazor created by Carl Franklin. You may know Carl from the podcast .Net Rocks or from Music to Code By.
Did you ever need to put a table from a web site into an Excel file? If so, you probably used copy & paste and then fixed all the formatting errors and wasted a lot of time.
There is another way you may not be aware of: Excel has an import feature to load data from web sites (and many more formats like PDF files).
The last update of VS Code has an annoying side effect: When you start typing in a file, the whole content moves one line down to give space for three dots on top of the editor:
Sooner or later we all run into this situation with Git: We committed a change that should not be committed and we only found that out after we hit commit in out IDE. If we did not yet push this change to our centralised repository, we can use this command to undo our mistake:
I am a big fan of Octopus Deploy. This tool helps us to deploy our applications with ease and in a reliable way. In fact, it is so easy that I always forget the few important settings you need to have in place so that Octopus can do its magic.
Synology builds great NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices. For 9 years my DS1512+ worked like a charm. It still works, but since it reached the end of support it is time to move to another device – the DS1618+. The big question I had was how do I move the files from one NAS to the other? As it turns out, there is a surprisingly simple yet robust way to do that.