Calling a Dynamics AX WCF service from .NET Core
A big part of my job these days is interop between Dynamics AX and various external services/resources. A WCF service hosted in our AX environment is often a key part […]
programming
backing the wrong horse
I have a long history of “backing the wrong horse,” as it were, when faced with decisions between two competing products. I’m one of the idiots who bought an HD-DVD […]
Microsoft Build
I wish I could have stayed in the Seattle area for MS Build, instead of coming back to NJ on Saturday. There have been some interesting announcements, including a new […]
back home and (slightly) broken
I’m back home today, after spending a few days in Redmond, WA for a two-day workshop on the Microsoft Partner Center SDK. This particular API/SDK is esoteric enough that it’s […]
Azure and baseball and comics
As mentioned in yesterday’s post, I did manage to watch a few of the Global Azure Bootcamp videos, yesterday and this morning. I didn’t really find any videos that directly […]
Global Azure Bootcamp and Pragmatic Programming
I’ve been doing a bunch of work related to Azure recently. It’s mostly not around actually using Azure, but rather managing Azure and billing for Azure. I’m in the middle […]
async and await in C#
I haven’t written many programming-related posts lately. A few months ago, I was doing a bunch of research into stuff related to async and await in C#, and made some […]
FizzBuzz
We’re hiring a new developer in my group at work, and my boss is including me in the interviewing process. It’s been a few years since I’ve done developer interviews, […]
Adding an exception logger to a Web API project with Autofac and Serilog
I just spent way too much time figuring out how to add a catch-all logger for exceptions to an ASP.NET Web API project, so I figured I’d write up my […]
sorting photos with Python
As part of my MacBook replacement project, I wanted to get a good new backup of my photo library. Photos.app stores photos in a database, not individual files, so if […]