Franky's Notes

Suggestion of the week

HTTPS Is Easy! (Troy Hunt) - A wonderful series of 4 videos that explains how to get secure with https. A must!

Function Proxies now Available in Functions Version 2.x! (Alex Karcher) - Yeah! I love it. Function proxies are awesome, if you don't know about them check out my post or videos.
Static website hosting for Azure Storage now in public preview (Michael Hauss) - Great! Have been waiting for this feature for so long!

Ghost in A shell - Part I : localhost (Manu) - A pretty cool little tutorial explains how to use different tools together.
Detecting that a .NET Core app is running in a Docker Container and SkippableFacts in XUnit (Scott Hanselman) - Really cool way to continue doing unit tests within Docker containers.
Injecting services to ASP.NET Core controller actions (Gunnar Peipman) - Nice tutorial, step by step, very clear.
Top Visual Studio Code Extensions from Individual Contributors -- Visual Studio Magazine ( David Ramel) - Congrats to these badass developers.
Working with T4 templates in Visual Studio - The Wit and Ramblings of David Giard (David Giard) - T4 are a really powerful tool. I used them a while back to avoid magic strings... Nice post to get started.

Why Sunday Is the Most Important Day of the Week for Your Wellbeing (Ryan Coisson) - The secret has always been right in the middle... Well, a middle ;)
Write That First Blog: Blogging for Programmers (Sander Rossel) - Excellent post that answers a question that is so frequently asked.

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 133 - Use the Azure Portal for Durable Functions Development (Michael Crump) - Nice tips durable functions are indeed very useful.
How to safely replace Find-AzureRmResource -ResourceType calls in Azure PowerShell 6.x+ (Stephane Lapointe) - Good to know! I'm happy about that change but didn't notice the depreciated method.
Immutable storage for Azure Storage Blobs now in public preview (Mitra Sinha) - A pretty neat feature!
New Features in Durable Functions - Nice little update from Mark, teacher of Durable Functions Fundamentals on Plurasight, directly.
Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Deploying Containers cheaply to Azure (Scott Hanselman) - Great quick review of the container offer with the cost in mind.
Disaster Recovery solution for Azure IaaS applications (Sujay Talasila) - Good new another GA to make people safe.

HelloWorld (Luke Oliff) - Nice post with multiple labs (exercises) very well explained and detailed to get started with auth0.
How to read, unable to read appsettings.json values ASP.NET Core - Great post that explains a gotcha while using .net Core with deployment slots.
Using ASP.NET Core 2.1's HttpClientFactory with Refit's REST library (Scott Hanselman) - Pretty cool, I didn't know this kind of tool existed.

Power BI and Sudoku – Yes Please (Mike Carlo) - Awesome! I really like when people think outside of the box. This post gives you link to the game and to a more detailed post.
The June release of SQL Operations Studio is now available (Alan Yu) - Pretty cool and remember it's a cross-platform tool!
Install SQL Operations Studio on Ubuntu Linux (Daniel Farina) - Nice tools. I think I should install it since its light weight and multi-platforms.

Generate the OpenAPI definition for Azure Function Apps (Abhijit Jana) - Learn how to save time and get your API definition generated for you.

ASP.NET Core Web API Best Practices (Marinko Spasojevic) - Great post. The perfect post to refresh our memories or learn the best practices.
Adopting Kubernetes step by step (santiago arias) - Perfect post to get started with Kubernetes even more if you know React.
Clean out your Docker images, containers and volumes with single commands (ryanwhocodes) - Useful post that gives a few examples of how to use the Docker commands.
How to use Visual Studio Code (Flavio Copes) - Another post that confirms that VSCode definitely worth our attention. This post gives examples, and shows deferent extensions... If you don't know vscode... Yep start here.
Controllers as action filters in ASP.NET Core MVC ( Filip W) - Same good old tricks, but with a fresh twist.
C# Enum: Definition, Examples, Best Practices, and Pitfalls (Justin Boyer) - Nice post that ENUMerate the best practices and pitfalls.
Preview of Visual Studio Kubernetes Tools (Visual Studio Blog) - Exciting news! This post introduces a new tool... I Think this is my cue to do more kubernetes!

[Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories That Resonate] (Brian McDonald) - We all know it, a story is the element that will give that little plus to our post, and video. This short book explains how to really make an effective one talking about the not visual things...
Really interesting.

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