Learning to learn
Do you know how to learn more effectively? Do you use highlighter or re-reading material to learn new stuff? If you do, well, there is some good evidence you need to change that if you want to learn more effectively.…
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Use Quartz.NET library for running jobs in a Windows service
Have you ever wanted to run scheduled tasks within a running Windows Service? I do from time to time, and the discovery of this library made a life a lot easier. I’ve come across Quartz.NET, which gives you a rich…
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A love-hate relationship with Samsung Knox Manage
Lately I’ve been busy with setting up a fleet of Samsung mobile phones for a customer that run custom mobile application, let’s call it Tripko. The partner company who supplied the phones also provided us with a license for Samsung…
read moreGenerate UML sequence diagrams with Javascript
Sequence diagram is a very useful tool for representing a sequence of interactions between objects, modules or processes. I am using it mostly to represent HTTP interactions between REST APIs or Web Services. It’s very easy to understand within your…
read moreReading bar codes from PDF documents and it’s challenges
A while ago we developed a solution for our customer, where PDF documents were automatically processed and imported to a document system. The core of the process is to analyze every page of the document, read codes (bar codes, qr…
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Advanced load testing with Websurge
Load testing your web applications and services is an essential part of modern web development. There are many tools that can help you with that, for example Azure DevOps or Apache JMeter. I am about to show you another tool,…
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Microsoft Ignite – The tour in Amsterdam
This year we went to the Microsoft Ignite conference in Amsterdam, which was from 19th to 20th of March. It’s a big conference with thousands of attendees and a lot of great talks. There were few tracks available for us,…
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Validate Azure ARM templates with PowerShell
If you are writing and using ARM templates as as a base of your infrastructure as code (IaC) principle, then the next few lines might be interesting to you. If you are new to IaC read this or if you…
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Check Azure CosmosDB “currency” from code and adapt the throughput
Azure CosmosDB is a scalable, distributed, highly responsive and cloud based database service. It boasts with low latency and pricing based on the usage. You are billed on hourly basis by provisioning total Request units (RU) per second for Azure…
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Visual Studio Pre and Post build scripts for Windows Services development
Development and testing of Windows Services is a bit cumbersome. You can not run them from Visual Studio as you can Windows Form or Web application, but there is a trick that can help to improve the development experience. Normally…
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