A Practical Approach to Hiring Great Full-Stack Engineers
Hiring great software developers is always challenging, but the stakes are even higher when building small, versatile teams. Recently, I conducted a series o...
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Streamlining Helpdesk Operations: Leveraging GitHub Issues with Custom Workflows and Templates
Setting the Scene: Choosing GitHub Issues for Internal Helpdesk Needs.
Apply caching when restoring NuGet packages using a GitHub hosted runner
When you are using a GitHub hosted runner to build your project, you can apply caching to speed up the build process. This is especially useful when you are ...
Sending Emails On Behalf of Someone Else in SaaS Solutions Using SendGrid and .NET
Introduction In the modern SaaS landscape, flexibility is key. One commonly sought-after feature in Helpdesk and similar software is the ability to send emai...
Making API calls more resilient
In the world of networked applications, call failures are a common occurrence due to the inherent unreliability of networks. When working with the Azure Cost...
Retrieving the active Azure Subscription ID from the AZ CLI Context
Managing Azure subscriptions can be a delicate task, especially when dealing with various tools and applications that require context-specific information. I...
How to get a token to access the Azure cost API
The Azure Cost CLI is a command-line dotnet tool created to facilitate interaction with Azure’s cloud costs. While the development of the tool was a technica...
From Full Stack to Full Circle: Embracing the Cyclical Nature of Software Development
In a recent conversation with a senior colleague, I jokingly referred to myself not as a full stack developer, but as a “full circle developer”. While it sta...
Direct download from Azure Blob storage using Content-Disposition header to set the filename
For an application I m building, I store attachments on Azure in blob storage. This service is a relatively cheap and scalable solution for files that need t...
Visualizing Azure Costs with MermaidJS and GitHub Actions: An In-Depth Guide
When working with Github Actions, it’s important to be able to output data in a graphical way easily. One way to do this is to use MermaidJS, a JavaScript-ba...