Creating the awesomeness
What is it? I wanted to check a website if a change was made. Why?Renting a simple space is hard in the Netherlands, as there are many sites that offer appartments / houses / garages, I wanted one.After a while I found a company responsible for renting out storage spaces and garages. They told me … Read more
What is it? Structured logging is the practice of implementing a consistent, predetermined message format for application logs that allows them to be treated as data sets rather than text. (https://www.sumologic.com/glossary/structured-logging/) I wanted to have a good, like really good, but free, system to move my logs to. Over the years, I have used PM2, … Read more
What is is? Steps: Create Xamarin.Forms app from Prism template Modify the template to show a browser and load my webpage Build app Publish app 1. Create Xamarin.Forms app from Prism template 2. Modify the template Modify the template– Change splash screen image– Load only a webpage– Block all external webpage calls and navigation– Navigate … Read more
What is it? For a while I am using MediatR to handle messages in my ASP.Net Core applications. (New to the Mediator design pattern, refactoring.guru has an exelent article about it)These messages (i.e. of type IRequest) need to be validated before the Handler processes them.In order to have this done, Fluent Validation is used and … Read more
What is it? At home I have a Synology DiskStation DS215j, and I have installed Cloud Sync in order to synchronize a directory on my Synology with a webdav connectoin.I used this guide to connect my Cloud Sync to a webdav connection. A couple of weeks ago I noticed that Cloud Sync stated ‘Up to … Read more
What is it? Code coverage, it is this magical number that will never hit 100% for a larger project, but near 100% should be doable right? One of my projects is setup using the Clean Architecture and has a separate front end and back end test project. For this article I will focus on the … Read more
What is it? Working on an one-man projects is easy, you build it on your own machine and deploy it manually to your server environment. This is a method I used to use for quite some time, but I now have noticed that setting up an CICD pipeline benefits also the one-man projects. Microsofts Azure … Read more
What is it? At home I have some smart mirrors, and they display some form of a birthday calendar. The calendar I use is a simple google calendar, and not the google birthday calendar (as is uses the contacts information to get the birthdays). As it is a simple calendar, the events I submit to … Read more
What is it? A while ago I created a simple application to reduce the size of images as I wanted more and more of them stored on my mobile phonehttps://timdows.com/projects/resizing-photos-to-have-them-all-on-your-32gb-storage-phone/ Using this application again, I wanted it to be running in dotnet core, but the System.Drawing library is not yet available on the dotnet core … Read more