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I'm noticing something unsettling in how I'm working, and I keep hearing the same contradiction from other developers: "I've never had this much fun coding—and I've never been more exhausted."

Your agent picks the wrong skill.

The Problem We've All Faced Picture this: You're debugging an issue in production, your container is running, and you need to inspect what's actually inside it.

Ever get that late-night ping from a colleague with "hey I did this thing, what do you think..

In today’s world of AI copilots, VS Code themes that change with your mood, and endless debates about tabs vs. spaces (it's tabs, don’t @ me), coding is as much about vibe as it is about syntax.

It's seems not too long ago I was laying down the words for "So Many Ways to Learn .NET in 2020", but of course it was March yesterday too.

Did you know that every month, the docs team at Microsoft has a post for what's new in the .NET documentation?

I have been running the well known ghost blogging platform on Azure AppService since ghost was version 0.10, about 8 years.

It's a new year and sure to be on your list, as well as mine, is learning.

Do you run an open-source project?

In my previous post, I showed how to take a WCF service and containerize it using Visual Studio.

There are a number of reasons for moving long-standing .NET Framework applications like WCF, and ASP.NET Webforms to containers and then into containers or "modernizing legacy heritage apps".

The GitHub event announced a great new feature - GitHub Sponsors.

All related links: https://www.theurlist.com/autobloggerpost Jekyll is a very popular way to host a static site on GitHub and posting new content is a simple as creating a markdown file and then committing it to the relative repo.

The options for pushing your .NET Core application to the cloud are not lacking depending on what IDE or editor you have in front of you.

Many years ago I wanted to jump into a project in open source but had no idea where to start.

If nothing else is true, containers have made local development on a platform so much easier.

Keeping your code update to with the latest references can at times be a challenge with the rate of speed third-party dependencies can revise.

The Docker extension for VS Code was recently updated to better support .NET Core applications and the experience is super nice!

Since .NET Core was announced, I've really been loving the command line experience for .NET Core.

I am a sucker for a great tool and even better if it's open source.

ASP.NET Core 2.1 added some great features for making external API calls easier to manage when there are network failures, or the service itself might be down.

Just recently the .NET Core June 2018 Update dropped and the ASP.NET Workshop I had just set up for CI/CD build was in need of an update to 2.1.1 (Release Notes).

DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users. – Donovan Brown Build Status BackEnd Web API FrontEnd Razor Page App How often have you gone to a GitHub repo and found that the sample code is n…

There has probably been more than one time in your development career where you've spent a few hours troubleshooting an issue only to find out it was a dependency or versions issue right?

While I was creating a recent test application with Razor Pages, I found myself clicking the "new file" button in VS Code too many times when I wanted to add a new Page.

In 2016 at the MVP Summit hackathon I put together a .NET Core CLI Tool to search for docs on docs.microsoft.com and it worked well, but there were some shortcomings.

If you have done any node.js development and have been required to hit code coverage marks prior to check in or CI/CD builds; you probably have used a tool like istanbul to check your percentages. image from instabul.js.org Getting code coverage reports on

If you've been to a conference around .NET in the last year or so, there's likely been workshop available from the .NET team.

One of the responsibilities we have as Cloud Developer Advocates is having an understanding of the struggles of developers using the cloud in their daily tasks.

Still think this is one of the best things to happen this year!

Checkout http://shell.azure.com!

I like to use Docker compose files for a couple of reasons.

What if you could just add a package to your code?

The Azure Functions team has been doing some great work lately and as a part of that work the runtime for the runtime of the serverless function was ported to .NET Core 2.0 in late September.

I recently picked up a Surface Book to start showing that I could do my job regardless of the machine I had.

Modernizing legacy apps has become the theme towards the end of this year or also known as "Lift and Shift".

Figuring out the best way to build and deploy any application regardless of the tech stack can be a sprint all in itself.

Creating a number of resources and organizing them in any software solution can get daunting without some sort of method to your madness.

Performance is always at the top of my mind when developing a web app.

Tab completion on the command line is like having a superpower for some of the CLI tools we have at our fingertips.

Over the last couple of weeks, I've just skimmed the areas of ARM templates, CLI, Docker on Linux, Azure Functions and AppService Web Apps.

In my most recent Pluralsight course, I spent some time talking about using Swashbuckle to create documentation for ASP.NET Core WebAPI applications.

One option for enabling the Swagger-UI capabilities is to direct the consumers of the api to http://petstore.swagger.io and have them put the url in the box at the top of the page.

In my post Testing Azure Functions with Postman and Swagger I showed how to use the API Specification capabilities in Azure Functions and then take the endpoint url and test the API using Postman.

I've been spending quite a lot of time using Azure over the last many years.

A new feature (preview) in Azure Functions is API Definition.

When sitting down to get started on a project, the start and stops of setting this and that up can be a non-starter.

See GitHub Issue #795 for the details and discussion.

Taking on a new role as a Sr.