by Chad Michel | Dec 2, 2022 | Tools
Visual Studio may be Microsoft’s best product. I have always been impressed with it, especially compared to other IDEs. I have become a fan of JetBrains Rider in the last few years. It is a pretty impressive editor too. In some ways, it does a better job than...
by Chad Michel | Nov 15, 2022 | Software Engineering, Technology, Tools
.NET 7 is out, and it is a pretty significant upgrade. Performance, ASP.NET, MAUI, and C# 11 are some of the new features. Microsoft continues to improve the performance improvements of .NET. As I have discussed in a previous blog post, Microsoft has needed to improve...
by Chad Michel | Nov 11, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Tools
In JavaScript projects, we have been using MomentJS for a lot of the date math that happens in much of the business software we write. The MomentJS team is pushing for Luxon as the replacement. To get started with Luxon, you need to install it with npm. npm install...
by Chad Michel | Oct 20, 2022 | Tools
An advantage of NodeJS is that there is a ton of available software. Probably more software libraries are available for NodeJS than any platform. One of those libraries is Passport, which can be used to handle authentication. Getting Passport set up and running...
by Chad Michel | Oct 6, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Tools
AWS’s DynamoDB is a managed NoSQL data store (non-relational data store). Often, we will want some sort of audit or logging of who is changing data. This can be done using DynamoDB streams. DynamoDB Stream will send all changes to a Lambda function we write....
by Chad Michel | Sep 27, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Tools
It is very common to make REST API calls as part of our applications today. REST APIs are probably the most common API flavor out there. The ease of interacting with REST APIs is perhaps the biggest driver for REST APIs becoming so popular. You can make REST API calls...
