- Electron & New Relic Integration Using Open Telemetry
March 17th, 2023 7 Minutes
Introduction Recently I encountered a scenario where I needed to integrate New Relic into my Electron application. New Relic supports a number of integration types our the box, some of the more heavily used ones are, APM Agents - Primary used for backend tracking, most of the documentation will…
- Why every developer needs to use Obsidian
May 23rd, 2021 8 Minutes
As a engineer learning new languages, tools frameworks etc is just part and parcel of the job. Over time the spectrum of knowledge a full stack engineer has to learn has increased dramatically. Maintaining a cognitive memory across all the different CLI's, languages/frameworks etc in today's setting…
- How to Deconstruct objects in C# like we do in Javascript
April 8th, 2021 1 Minutes
I've been using C# for about a decade now, and every now and again I discover something that surprises me. This week it's the ability to deconstruct as we do in Javascript (and I'm not talking about using Tuples!). Below is a simple example of deconstruction taking place to draw out the power, and…
- ASP.NET GraphQL server with Hot Chocolate
April 4th, 2021 11 Minutes
Starting my journey with GraphQL Up till now, I've always heavily relied on RESTfull services to power API's, this recently got widened with GRPC which you can read about in my article .NET & GRPC What they forgot to tell you. GraphQL was the third final frontier that needed exploring 🥾...until now…
- Adding environments to ASP.NET Core with React.js SPA
January 19th, 2021 10 Minutes
Recently I started working on a project that was created from the ASP.NET SPA template for react. It's one of the templates you get by default with dotnet and can be created by running dotnet new react. The template creates a dotnet webapp which is designed to be an API backend and links it with a…
- My journey of creating a .NET CLI tool
December 18th, 2020 10 Minutes
Why I started building a CLI As a .NET engineer, I work with Azure storage a lot, its versatility, ease of use, as well as cost makes it a common staple amongst developers. Its application is also widespread from leveraging queues on a basic console app to storing uploaded images from a web…
- .NET & GRPC What they forgot to tell you
September 7th, 2020 11 Minutes
As an engineer, I have always had a heavy reliance on REST'ful API's for passing information between applications. With the introduction of open API specification now in version 3.0.3, integration has never been easier. The push to break monoliths into microservices has further boosted its usage…
- Evolving your Windows Terminal using Powershell libraries
July 24th, 2020 5 Minutes
As a windows user the terminal experience has always been lacking, up till the new windows terminal was released. Incorporating WSL (Windows Subsystem for Lynx) really helped bridge that gap as it opens up console experience that makes use of apt-get use the plethora of packages available. Having…
- GatsbyJS SEO and Open Graph with Helmet
July 11th, 2020 9 Minutes
I recently recreated my blog in GatsbyJs, you can download a template of it here gatsby-techblog-starter. In the joy of sharing its simplicity to the world, I tweet about my intro article with a link to my website. To my dismay, I noticed the tweet was lacking a lot of formatting and information on…
- Creating my dream tech blog with GatsbyJS
July 7th, 2020 7 Minutes
I'm someone who's always had my own tech blog, I've gone through two revisions already with the last revision updating out of a 1997 style book. How much I contribute to the blog has always depended on how much friction and effort it takes to write content, manage and upload photos and paste in code…
- Making a Azure poison queue Slack notifier
September 22nd, 2017 6 Minutes
I'm currently working at a place were we are using queue triggered Webjobs to handle the sending of messages like email and SMS (using Send Grid and Twilio). Using a queue based system for this is great because it allows us to replay any queue messages, should one of the 3rd party's (or our code…
- Fix poor project structure with Convention Based Programming
August 19th, 2017 5 Minutes
Having looked at a number of projects in my lifetime, I always come across classes named something like "CustomerService" with similar variations (usually in the same project calling each other) ranging from "CustomerProvider / Helper /Manager / Store / etc...". There are two hard things in computer…
- Splitting NUnit Unit Tests With TeamCity To Decrease CI Time
March 31st, 2017 2 Minutes
This is a quick guide on how to split unit tests into different categories to decrease the time it takes for your CI build to run. The categories can be used to distinguish different areas of your tests to break down the CI Builds (typically used to run different categories in parallel) or to…