Category Archives: Technical

Add .NET Core DI and Config Goodness to AWS Lambda Functions

Posted on December 16, 2018 by

When Amazon introduced AWS Lambda in 2014, it helped kick off the revolution in serverless computing that is now taking the software development world by storm.  In a nutshell, AWS Lambda (and equivalents such as Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions) provides … Continue reading →

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Customize EF Core Scaffolding with Handlebars Templates

Posted on May 27, 2018 by

With the release of Entity Framework Core 2.1 we finally have a version of EF Core that is ready for prime time.  EF Core is a complete re-write of its predecessor Entity Framework 6, which has been married to the … Continue reading →

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It’s here! Trackable Entities for EF Core!

Posted on October 1, 2017 by

The idea behind my open source Trackable Entities project is quite simple: track changes to an object graph as you update, add and remove items, then send those changes to a back end service where they can be saved in … Continue reading →

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React to JavaScript object updates with observable-entities-js

Posted on September 21, 2017 by

I just published my first TypeScript library — observable-entities.  It contains base classes that notify observers when properties are updated and when objects are added or removed from collections. The code for observable-entitites-js can be found here: https://github.com/TrackableEntities/observable-entities-js. Node sample app that uses observable-entities … Continue reading →

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Turbocharge VS Code for Angular Development

Posted on July 18, 2017 by

I like using Visual Studio Code for my Angular development, because it is TypeScript-friendly, supports in-editor Chrome Debugging, and has numerous extensions for boosting productivity.  In this post I’d like to show how you can turbocharge VS Code to make … Continue reading →

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Scaffold an Express Front End with Angular CLI

Posted on November 1, 2016 by

In my last post I explained how to build scalable Web API’s with Express and Async/Await.  The next chapter in the story is to build a cross-platform front end that consumes the back end Web API.  While there are a number … Continue reading →

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Scalable Web API’s with Express and Async-Await

Posted on October 27, 2016 by

If you’re a C# developer, you’ve most likely fallen in love with async / await. It makes writing asynchronous code as natural as writing non-asynchronous code, resulting in code that is easier to read, debug and maintain. The exciting news is … Continue reading →

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