Not too long ago I gave a workshop on using TDD. Not because I like to give workshops or presentations, I am horrible at public speaking (this is worthy of a blog post on its own by the way). However, I believe that the best way of studying something, is by teaching it. It forces…
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Entity Framework and calculated properties
Oh, the joys of legacy. Decisions were made, nobody knows why and now you “just” have to work with it. Today was one of those days.It is not as bad as I’ve seen before (Hello critical Visual Basic 6 code), but still. Having an awesome quality tool like SonarQube regularly scanning your solutions will catch…
2019: resolutions and goals
OK, so this post will be a more personal one. I’ve never been one for having New Years resolutions. I thought they were a be presumptuous, a little lie to tell yourself to feel better. I’ve heard it many times. “This year I will work out more”, “this year I will lose weight”, “this year…
Upgrading to .NET Core (part 3): Using .NET Standard in an existing .NET Framework project
So, you’ve got .NET Core, .NET Standard and .NET Framework. Microsoft, when developing all this, had the brilliant idea to create a set of APIs that should be available on both Framework and Core. A Standard set, if you will. Thus, .NET Standard was born. Libraries targeting this “platform” (which technically is not really a…
Upgrading to .NET Core (part 2): why?
Why would you upgrade to .NET Core anyway? It’s not trivial, you will lose some functionality that are available in .NET Framework and .NET Core is moving so fast right now that sometimes it feels like you can’t keep up anymore. For our situation there are a few advantages: .NET Core scales better Fast development…
Upgrading to .NET Core (part 1): The Beginning
As is tradition, any new project (for a given definition of new) will be surpassed by the technology it uses. The project I’m currently working on was originally targeted to run on .NET Framework, and is doing a good job at it. However, being a new project we also have to be ready to run…
Going head-first into a running project
Recently I have been thrown into a running project. Again. It seems that this happens pretty often in my career, new projects are a rare occurrence. Not the most fun thing to do. Every time, you are behind on the rest on the team. I always have the nagging feeling I should have been up…
Updating WordPress and plugins
In my previous post you could read how I installed the basic package for WordPress on my Synology NAS. There are still some things to do (styling, interesting content, enabling comments…), but one of the more important things is the ability to update. WordPress in itself is not a bad package, but infamous for having…
Getting WordPress to work on my Synology NAS
The fact that I’m typing this means I’ve (somewhat) successfully installed WordPress on my Synology NAS! There are still some things to do (WP/plugin updating doesn’t work yet, haven’t done anything about styling, writing a decent post…) but the base is standing. All of this should have only taken 5 minutes (as was promised on…
Hello world!
Welp, welcome to my memory extension! I will use this blog mainly for writing down tech/software stuff that I stumbled upon, used in my job and want to remember somehow. If you find this useful, awesome!