Helping Improve Your Productivity – Tips and tricks to develop your personal projects

Angular Router killed my links

5 Jul

I’ve just finished a 700h Angular 2/4 project on my own and I was bit by Angular more than once either because there were bugs, bad design, poor documentation, or assumptions that were made incorrectly. In this post, I am...
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Request Image Files with Angular 5 and an Bearer Access Token

20 Dec

This post has been updated to support the new [crayon-673ed15db4e90304123221-i/] . When using a full-fledged framework like Angular 5 to talk to your server with AccessTokens, you might not use cookies. In this case, any image requests to your server with...
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Deploying .NET Core on Azure: A Complete Mess

22 Nov

Edit: after spending more than 60 hours on trying to deploy a .NET core on Azure. I have given up. This post will not take you all he way there. Also, they have changed the process with Visual Studio 2017...
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AngularJS 2 with ASP.NET Core 1

8 Aug

Creating a website from scratch has never been so complicated. You might be thinking: “But there are so many cool frameworks out there, it’s actually getting easier.” This is only true if you are creating something basic by following their tutorials...
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Relation Scaffolding for MVC

19 May

I have been using MVC for multiple projects, and one of the really powerful tool is the ability to Scaffold your project from templates. The one I like the most is when creating an admin page, you can generate the...
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ASP.NET Membership to Owin

29 Jan

When you work on an old code base, it’s boring. You want to upgrade to the newest and latest. However, it is not always easy to follow the latest trend without suffering inevitable breaking changes. Recently, I wanted to update an...
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Managing two different e-mail addresses with Office 365

23 Sep

I purchased a subscription to Office 365 in order to have my own e-mail addresses using my domains. The problem is I don’t want just one e-mail address, but two. Since Microsoft shifted toward user based subscriptions, it should be perfect!...
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6 steps to answer an interview coding question

21 Sep

This post is a continuation of “Applying for Microsoft as a developer“. Tips and tricks for answer coding questions definitely needed another post. You will find so many different answers and opinions online. Look them up! I will most likely...
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Applying for Microsoft as a developer

21 Sep

Someone asked me tips and tricks to apply for Microsoft. Just to let you know, I have left Microsoft but I am happy to provide help with getting hired at any company (yep, including Microsoft). This is only my point of view...
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8 steps to start a new business

16 Sep

After taking the decision to leave Microsoft, I decided to start my own business. I want to be a consultant. I have been doing this kind of business in the past while I was in college, but this is definitely...
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