Amazon Alexa. First impressions
Recently I purchased Amazon Alexa, just for fun. Initially wife wanted a radio or a Bluetooth speaker on kitchen. And Alexa was cheap enough to use as a speaker/radio. On the first day I’ve asked it a...
View ArticleProtect your your Azure Resources from accidental deletion
Last week I’ve messed up a big time. I was doing Azure Storage Account migrations via a PowerShell script, part of that script was deletion of old resource group. That group was meant to be empty every...
View ArticleCloudException: Please register the subscription with Microsoft.Insights
While trying to connect Azure Automation and log Analytics I came across this error: CloudException: Please register the subscription {your sub ID} with Microsoft.Insights Message is clear, but how do...
View ArticleCount of rows per table in SQL Server
A lot of times I have to study a new database and count of rows per table has been a great source of info. There are many ways to get number of rows per table, but I’m sick of looking it up every time....
View ArticleDecotrator Pattern Kata
I was explaining Decorator pattern to a colleague of mine and came up with a little coding exercise, code kata to practice. Here is the task: Get a class that always outputs “Hello world”. Surround...
View ArticleKeyboard Shortcuts for Git in Visual Studio
For my day-to-day tasks, I use Visual Studio almost 80% of my working time. About 99% of my work I commit to git and push to server. This is a lot of commits per day. And Git interface in Visual Studio...
View ArticleUsing private NuGet feed with dotnet publish
In Azure DevOps you can have your own private NuGet feed and I’m using that extensively. But sometimes authentication there is a pain. This time I run into authentication issue while executing dotnet...
View ArticleWindows Terminal
I’ve been reinstalling all my machines a few times in the last month (because reasons). These times are always a good reason to review your tools, change and upgrade. Recently I’ve been hearing about...
View Articlemstsc.exe vs HD screen
This post is mostly a copy of this post. I don’t want to steal a thunder from Chris – all his idea. So here I’ll just copy the commands to execute – mostly for my own future reference. And for the...
View ArticleLaundry Basket Bias
You may have noticed this blog have been very quiet for the last few years. This is because last in 2018 we had beatiful twin girls born in our family. And this made total count of kids 3. This leaves...
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