There are not many topics in which success and failure are that close together than in an automation project. It does not matter if you automate a process or code generation – it is a small misstep to turn a possible success into a definitive failure. To change the odds to our favour, we should …
After 6 years it is time for an update of my tool list. At first, I thought that there are not that many changes, but after reinstalling my laptop I noticed that there are a few new entries that I would not want to miss. Do you know a tool that is not on this …
Do you like coding puzzles? If so, you should go to AdventOfCode.com and prepare yourself for some funny little coding challenges. Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. As usual, the Advent …
QR codes are a nice way to supply your users with an URL without letting them type it into their mobile devices. All they need to do is to point their camera to the QR code and scan it. There are many libraries to create QR codes with .Net. Unfortunately, not all are working with …
We run into a strange error last week when we no longer could install NuGet packages from our Azure DevOps feed. Visual Studio only gave us a basic error message about SSL connections, but to get some details we needed to run dotnet restore: error : The SSL connection could not be established, see inner …
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 …
I was a happy user of the Moq library for the last 12 years. I liked the simplicity of Moq and how it allowed me to write tests first and then incrementally build the functionality. Unfortunately, the creator of Moq is currently doing his best to kill the project. As he declared, either his spyware …
Last week I was in Oslo to attend the NDC conference. I cannot really believe that this was already the 10th NDC Oslo I attended. With 2’600 attendees it was the biggest NDC event ever, but at least for me not the best. Practical Clean Architecture workshop with Jason Taylor I started my NDC …
For many years we could use this post to restore the Azure *.bacpac file with the backup of our user group web site. As I tried it today, I ended up with a long wait time (nearly 20 minutes) and multiple errors: The error message of the first failed step showed the problem: Could not …
If you ever run into a problem with an iPhone and need to create a video of your screen, you can do that directly with the methods provided by iOS (back to iOS 13). First, open the Settings application and go the Control Centre. There you find an option for Screen Recording that you can …