I’m putting together a course where I want students to easily deploy their code. Since the course is on .NET 6 WebAPIs (and Entity Framework (core)) I thought that Azure would make a great choice to deploy to.

And nowadays ARM templates seems to be the way to go (maybe BICEPs but I’m doing ARM for now).

But I ran into problems, and I wanted to share with you those problems and how I overcame it. Just your normal post on this blog in other words.

I just had an aha-experience that shook me; first I found it interesting, and then I was ashamed that I haven’t realized this before.

Here it is:

Plans are theoretical

Let me tell you how I realized this and how I think it is important.

I’m writing a boot camp for .NET core and have started to learn a lot of things that have changed since I last coded C#. One of them was shown to me by my good friend John Magnusson. (I’m downplaying his knowledge and skills a lot here since I was close to tears and he sent me a link that...

I’m enjoying myself at work right now, writing a course in C# and for the .NET core platform. Man - this was some time ago. Naturally I learn a lot. That’s why I became a teacher. I wanted to share a little nugget (NuGet?) of gold that I found. In one of the early labs in the course I used...

I have a big project ahead here at Salt - I’m going to write an entire boot camp from scratch. This is done as a single-person project and all my other colleagues are working on as normal around me.

I wanted to report my progress to them so that they know what’s happening and also that I can get some leeway of keeping my focus.

In this post, I wanted to share a very simple prognosis tool that I created based on the data that my work create. As always, it’s not perfect but it will give an accurate enough feel for where I am and when it will be done

I’m rediscovering my first programming love; .NET. I’m having a blast and .NET core keeps giving.

This post is one of those - I can’t believe that I couldn’t find this post on the net somewhere. Or I didn’t look hard enough.

But I wanted to setup Selenium testing, but only use .NET Core and Visual Studio Code on my Mac. Every example I saw was using older versions of .NET core (I’m writing this on .NET core 5) and/or Visual Studio, which I don’t have.

I rarely get paid to write code these days… or that is people rarely ask me to write code. But since I’m a programmer at heart it is one of the tools in my tool belt, regardless of what kind of tasks I’m given.

Today I got asked:

Could you please list all Open Source Licenses we are using, and all the dependencies all our code is using.

Considering we have 130+ repositories I was what the scientist refer to as a boring task.

Let’s make it more fun with code.

I like to automate repetitive and boring things I do in my daily work. This lead to that me write bash scripts from time to time, but the problem is that I’m a newbie script:er. I’m learning as I go. And the other day I did a cardinal sin in scripting. Not only that - I decided to show the...

I’ve been increasingly annoyed with the fact there’s no easy way to add scripts to a package.json file programmatically. It always messes up my lovely scripts for tutorial setups and other use cases. Very frustrating. Well … until not that is. I give you ScrAdd - the script adder. Let’s say that you are writing a tutorial on how to...

I indirectly got a question that I thought would make a good blog post. The question came from the brilliant Emer on this LinkedIn post. That post in itself is a great read on the US Air Force’s thoughts on agile in general - great stuff in there.

Anyhow - Emer asked me:

Yes! I have read many posts by Allen Holub and our friend Woody Zuill on this. I do struggle though to find a way to practice “true” agility at a large scale. Do you have any good resources on this?

and I started to write a response but realized that I needed some more space. This blog post is that response.