Last week, I wrote a blog post a book about Streaming a Community Event on YouTube - Sharing the Technologies and Learnings from Virtual Azure Community Day. I ended that post with an appendix of things I’ve looked into but have no experience with. Read more »
Earlier this week, our Belgian Azure User Group has been part of the Virtual Azure Community Day (VACD). An online event hosted by user groups from Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Bulgaria. All online and streamed to YouTube, and organized and executed in ~2 weeks. Read more »
My friend and colleague Matt Ellis has this habit of nerd sniping me. Sometimes intentional, sometimes accidental. Today, he asked whether we could have a quick look at an issue together, which ended up being a nerd snipe of the latter category. Read more »
In the .NET team at JetBrains, we try to be as responsive as possible on Twitter when there are mentions of ReSharper, Rider, or any of the profiling tools. Many of our developer advocates, as well as the development team, QA and marketing, are active on Twitter and keep an eye on what’s being talked about, to try a... Read more »
While working on SpaceDotNet, a strong-typed client SDK to access the JetBrains Space HTTP API, I came across a scenario to deserialize JSON into polymorphic classes. In this post, I’ll explain how to write a custom JsonConverter for System.Text.Json to help with deserialization for such cases. Read more »
This week, I was presenting at IglooConf (Indexing and searching NuGet org with Azure Functions and Search). During one of the demos, I casually used a feature we shipped with the latest Azure Toolkit for JetBrains Rider: when the Azure Functions host is running on a development machine, Rider lets us trigger functi... Read more »
Right now, I’m having fun building a .NET Core client library for JetBrains Space. Part of that client library will be ASP.NET Core authentication, to help in making authentication with your Space organization easy. Think of something like this: Read more »
Many developers are building Single-Page Applications (SPAs) using popular frameworks like Angular, React or VueJS. They all come with an easy way to generate all required HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Webpack artifacts required to deploy to production, usually an NPM script like npm run build away. Having to build all ... Read more »
I know, I know. That title is probably a bit too harsh and opinionated. But it got your attention, right? Read more »
In 2013, I was asked to be part of a conference agenda committee. Since, I have been part of a couple more, for conferences in different parts of the world. Read more »