Author: Chad Michel
Azure API Management
For much of the work we do, we end up with APIs in the cloud. In the .NET world, this often means hosting a WebAPI in the cloud. With WebAPIs, we usually have endpoints that are accessible to anyone who can connect to the API. These APIs can have other requirements such as authentication, scalability,…
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Design and Development Clinic Review – April 2019
Doug Durham and I recently completed another Software Design and Development Clinic. This week-long set of classes is designed to help level up software developers into senior developers. For us leading the classes, the week is always exhausting but they’re still one of my favorite weeks of the year. Leading even a small group of…
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Setting Up Mobile Badges: Two Methods
We all know those badges on mobile applications, the ones that show a number on application icons and, for many, cause anxiety. If you are like me and get lots of emails, you have seen 300+ of them from time to time. But what many don’t know is how those badges get their numbers. While…
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Quick Look – Azure Functions
Azure Functions are an excellent and highly-scalable application development platform in the Azure ecosystem. They also provide a lot of triggers that can be used to invoke those Functions, which allows you to use them as the basis for your application programming. For Amazon Web Services (AWS) developers, Azure Functions are very similar to Lambdas….
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Using Azure Active Directory B2C with Angular
In my previous Azure B2C post, we used Azure Active Directory B2C with an ASP.NET backend. Microsoft makes this a pretty seamless experience. You configure your Azure B2C application and then configure your ASP.NET web application. That’s it! But what if you want to use an Angular frontend? Using Azure B2C with Angular is similar…
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Earned Value
Are we there yet? Anyone with kids has probably heard this during a long car trip. Anyone in the software industry has probably heard this too. Software development projects can be huge investments of time and energy, and often weeks can go by without showing a lot of return on that investment. We often try…
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Developing Locally with Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is a fantastic technology. It provides a very robust document database with multiple query languages supported. But as with many cloud technologies, it has the problem of only being able to run from the cloud (obviously). Thankfully, some cloud technologies – like Cosmos DB – can be run on the ground, on…
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Getting Started with Azure B2C Identity Management
Users are essential for software, but managing users isn’t a unique value-add we are often providing with our software. Letting someone else manage users for us makes a lot of sense and saves many headaches. Thankfully there are many services that do this really well. One of those services is Azure Active Directory B2C. In…
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Beer && Code: One of Our Favorite Local Meetups
One of the great things about Lincoln is its growing number of educational opportunities centered around technology and software development. One of them is near and dear to our hearts: Beer && Code. Started by Don’t Panic Labs software engineer Branden Barber (aka Beebs around the office), this monthly get-together meets at various locations around…
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Setting Up iOS Push Notifications for Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
iOS push notifications are often a requirement for mobile applications. But this feature isn’t easy to set up. It involves several steps across various applications, online and locally. And if you’re developing for multiple platforms (i.e., iOS and Android), you can be in for even more work. But with Amazon’s Simple Notification Service (SNS), you…
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