Publishing Azure Functions from JetBrains Rider

You probably shouldn’t deploy straight from JetBrains Rider to an environment within Azure. Doing so might get you into a bad situation, or at least setting yourself up for a bad situation. But there are a couple of scenarios where this might be useful. The first is if you are building a throwaway prototype and…

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Using AWS Cognito with Google Authentication

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Adding social authentication to your application should be pretty simple. And if you started with AWS Cognito, adding something like Google authentication is straightforward. In this post, we will add Google authentication to an existing AWS Cognito User Pool. To configure your Google identity provider, we will need Client ID, a Client Secret, and an…

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Building Angular Applications Using GitHub Actions

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Angular is a very popular web application framework. From a web framework perspective, it is probably the most complete and, in my opinion, a very useable framework. I can see why some have issues with it, but it is very okay, which is probably the best thing to be said about any framework. At Don’t…

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Quick Look – Ionic Start Wizard

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We have used Ionic for quite a few projects here at Don’t Panic Labs. It has worked in many situations when we want a mobile application but don’t want to build it as a fully native app. You can quickly create an Ionic application by running the Ionic CLI command: Ionic start When running that…

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.NET 8

What I’m Excited to See in .NET 8

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.NET has evolved a lot since I first started using it years ago. I was introduced to it when it was released in 2002, but I wasn’t using it regularly until I started working at a new company in 2005. Microsoft recently announced the availability of .NET 8. This version of .NET is a Long…

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Git Techniques

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Git is an indispensable tool for managing source code in modern software development. While basic commands like git clone, git add, and git commit are essential, they are just the tip of the iceberg. This guide is intended for developers who already have some Git experience and wish to unlock its full capabilities. We will…

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RIP Visual Studio for Mac

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Visual Studio Mac is dead or will be 8/31/2024. This probably doesn’t affect many of you, but this is an interesting turn of events. Visual Studio Mac has a fascinating lineage. Microsoft created .NET years ago (2001), and alongside .NET an open-source alternative was created (Mono). Developers needed an alternative editor, which begot SharpDevelop. And…

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Using html2canvas

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Pictures often provide more meaning than can be provided by text. You know the pain if you have ever had to explain what is happening in an application but struggled to find the right words. Sometimes it’s just easier to send a screenshot. This is where html2canvas comes in. This handy little piece of JavaScript…

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Rider For .NET Developers: An In-Depth Review

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Selecting the right development tools is pivotal. It’s essential not only to have a broad array of features but also to ensure those tools are user-friendly and efficient. Over recent years, my preference has strongly leaned towards JetBrains’ Rider IDE. Rider stands shoulder to shoulder with the full Visual Studio IDE, boasting features from solution…

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Lowering Overhead with Fastify

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NodeJS is one of the more common server hosting environments out there. We at Don’t Panic Labs tend to use .NET instead of NodeJS for the hosting of backend systems, but I like to use NodeJS for a lot of my experiments as it often forces me to learn new things. When standing something up…

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