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Open plan offices are a BAD idea

I am about to start a job that has an open office plan and I am really dreading this part of the job. Why do you say? 3 reasons: I have been spoiled by having a private office in my last job. It was...

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Check table configurations in EF Core 3.1

To check the table configurations for EF Core 3.1, I did the following and it helped identify issues. It iterates all tables in the context and selects one row. If there is an exception, it will catch...

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Must have applications for software development 2021 Version

I wanted to update my list of must have software for development, mostly to remember what I am currently using. These are listed in no particular order: Visual Studio 2019 (Why don’t they call this VS...

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Example Powershell/Windows Terminal Command setup

Here are some of the PowerShell / Windows terminal commands commands I have set up in my profile. Load fork into current folder. Function loadFork { c:\users\<user...

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Employers Please Change This

I recently changed jobs and the worst part has been the gap in Health Insurance. The insurance with my old job stopped on the last day of employment, and the insurance with the new job won’t start...

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Dotnet packages I want to use in the future.

Cocona – For when I need easy parameter stuff for a console app. It makes console apps more like minimal api’sGraphQL or Odata or Json api ?? which should I use? Dotnet Test Containers – To Make...

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Enable WSL2 to access Global Protect VPN Tunnel

To enable Ubuntu via WSL2 to access the Prisma Global Protect VPN Tunnel use the following commands from a Powershell command line with Admin Access: Get-NetIPInterface -InterfaceAlias "vEthernet...

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Enable Http Transient Failure Retries with logging

To enable transient retries in dotnet core, put the following into the startup process. In this case, it went into a WorkerService, so the code is in the Program.cs file....

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To Get AWS API Stage Variables with a C# dotnet 6 minimal rest api

I am writing this because I could not find how to get the AWS Api Gateway stage variables of a dotnet 6 minimal rest api anywhere on the internet, so please see the below code snipett...

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What to do when you have been ghosted by a recruiter

I have recently been ghosted by a recruiter from a local company and it is very frustrating. I am sure that I did not get the job, but it would be nice to have a simple answer and some feedback on why...

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