We use Seq to find valuable insights in the vast sea of our structured log messages. While the search usually works straightforward without any surprises, this time we run into a minor problem. We wanted to find all log messages where property FieldX did not match a specific value. Therefore, we appended this clause to …
As long as your application does not use Blazor, upgrading from .Net 7 to .Net 8 is a walk in the park. The only obstacle we run into while upgrading the user group site was the publish task. Microsoft has made some simplifications to the runtime identifiers that are a breaking change. For .Net 7 …
If you spend May 2020 focused on other things than tech news, you may have missed the announcement of the Windows Package Manager. It took me a while to find this little gem and noticed that many developers had no clue either that this tool runs on their Windows 10 and 11 machines. This package …
As I tried to update my WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) installation, I run into this error message:
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E: Release file for http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-security/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 58min 27s). Updates for this repository will not be applied. How could that be? The difference of nearly an hour got me thinking about …
While solving the annoying problem with the *.bacpac files, I was not sure what edition of SQL Server I have installed on my machine. The simplest way to figure out what edition you run is to start SQL Server Management Studio, connect to your SQL Server and right click on the Server node. In the …
With a higher usage of our build agents in Azure DevOps, we run out of disk space twice in the same week. It was now time to find a solution that would declutter our local build agents. The last time I searched for a solution I could not find anything that would allow me to …
SQL Server Management Studio may not include all important parts of your table when you let it write the CREATE TABLE script. For instance, the full-text index for a table is omitted by default. If you use the full-text search feature, you should make sure that SQL Server Management Studio includes them in the create …
A while ago we noticed a performance problem with Seq and the other applications that run on the same server. As it turned out, Seq allocated all the memory and left next to nothing for the other applications. A restart of Seq will only be a temporary solution, for a more durable one we need …
We use AsciiDoc as the format for our documentation for the user group project. AsciiDoc is a bit like Markdown, but it supports multi-file documents out of the box and without any quirks. We use the Ruby app Asciidoctor to turn our AsciiDoc files into a PDF as part of our build job. Since building …
My Ubuntu machine nagged me with notifications like this one: Pending update of chromium snap: Close the app to avoid disruption (5 days left) That went on for days and I did multiple restarts of my machine where Ubuntu could have updated Chromium. Since I did not want to get a restart in the middle …