About GitHub Packages is a convenient way to store and serve your NuGet packages. There are a couple of reasons why you might want to consider using GitHub Packages: You need to share NuGet packages with an extended team and need to do so securely. You have an antiquated on premise NuGet repository, which limits … Continued
Microsoft is throwing a lot of resources at improving Teams. We certainly have been using Teams increasingly over the last several months. There are some things I really like about it, and some things I like less (eh-hem multi-tenant). One thing I have found recently, is using the record feature for meetings. I do recognize … Continued
In a given calendar year, our staff can be working in a LOT of different development environments. While Axian as a whole tends to focus on Node.js, Java and .NET runtimes/toolchains, we are also often found working with systems that comprise everything from Python, to Golang, Ruby and beyond! Needless to say this can create … Continued
Axian kicked off its inaugural Xbox 360 LAN party this November. We sustainably sourced (ahem…bought used from Craigslist/Ebay) 16 lightly enjoyed Xbox 360s, controllers and a LOT of games. In my experience, very little brings a team together like a Halo 3 Capture the Flag game and this event was no different. A big thanks … Continued
Let’s talk about teaching app development to 8-12 year-old girls. It’s difficult to keep any 8-12 year olds focused in general, so how do you do it with a lot of patience and fun? Last week, I volunteered at a STEM student technology camp at Pacific University to do this very thing. I was there … Continued
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the Technology Association of Oregon’s talk, “Role of a Project Manager in an Agile Environment.” The audience was full of product owners and project managers interested in the daily life of a ScrumMaster. What does this person do? (Like it’s a mysterious animal out in the wilderness.) A … Continued
The Scenario So I was working away on an EF6 / WebAPI / AngularJS project when I ran into an odd issue. I had secured my WebAPI using OAuth and required that the user provide a bearer token on every request. The strategy / workflow worked like this: 1. User browses to https://myproject.domain.net/login 2. Angular’s … Continued
Recently I was engaged in an AngularJS project that spent a little time switching between views. Okay, well the term “a little” is pretty subjective. As we all know, the more thumb-twiddling a user does while waiting for a response from a server, the less likely they are to use your app, or at the … Continued
My last post took you though setting up boot2docker on your system and provided a quick cheat sheet on how to configure and interact with it. In this post I will be laying out a running list of the commands I use with docker to get the most out of my containers. What is Docker? (From docker.com) Docker allows … Continued
Here’s an Entity Framework scenario for you: You’re using Entity Framework 6. Check. You’re using a custom database initializer to init your DEV and TEST databases. Specifically the DropCreateDatabaseAlways initializer. Yup, that’s me. Your project contains 1 or more Unit Test projects that utilize the above. Do you have a unit test project? Say yes. … Continued
