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A Fall Sunset Walk Through the Sculpture Garden in Minneapolis
Photos I took on a beautiful fall walk through the Walker Art Center's Sculpture Garden last October.
December 23, 2024How to Choose the Best C#/.NET Freelance Developer
Learn how to choose the right C# .NET consultant for your project. This guide covers essential steps, from evaluating expertise to assessing communication skills, ensuring you find the perfect partner to deliver exceptional results.
December 20, 2024Don't Put New Bugs On Blast
Bugs and problems in software are inevitable, but how we communicate them to the team determines the outcome and speed they are resolved.
December 17, 2024Troubleshooting outdated WooCommerce Subscription plug in
How I migrated from a very old WooCommerce Subscription plug in back down to the previous versions and back up again.
December 11, 2024MPLS Coffee is available for iOS and Android
MPLS Coffee is now available for both iOS and Android to help everyone find top coffee shops in Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
November 14, 2024Migrating Umbraco sites has become easy
I've completed so many Umbraco migrations over the past year that they've become incredibly easy to execute. Now that I've been doing them for a while, I've created a template that I follow to make the process almost automatic.
October 08, 2024Developing a Minneapolis Coffee Shop Locator
October 07, 2024Photos: A walk around Gold Medal Park
Earlier this month I had a few minutes to spare downtown so I decided to take a walk around Gold Medal Park.
September 21, 2024What's the difference between 401 and 403 response codes
There's a small but significant difference between 401 and 403 response codes. Both are related to authentication and authorization.
September 19, 2024Warm Septembers
The query, visualization and data set below is for the average Minneapolis temperature (combination of high and low temps) for September from the beginning of records until today (2024).
September 11, 2024How to have effective stand-up meetings to maximize productivity
Stand-up meetings are often mismanaged (or not managed at all) and therefore end up wasting time and killing productivity. If stand ups go too long and drawn out, people will stop paying attention.
September 04, 2024First real heat of the year
There's a heat dome forecast to settle into the upper Midwest tomorrow that will hang around for the next week. Temperatures are expected to be 85F degrees and higher with lows dipping only into the 70s at night. This will be the warmest the summer of 2024 has been so far.
July 25, 2024Quickbooks Payment API
Today I learned how the Quickbooks Payment API system works from the standpoint of the C# Quickbooks API client. The architecture or pattern used to process credit cards is known as Tokenization.
July 22, 2024How to execute multiple SQL Server views in C#
This blog post shows how to return data from multiple SQL Server views in a single database trip with C# WebAPI.
July 18, 2024How to reverse engineer a database with Entity Framework Core
Here are the steps to reverse engineer or scaffold your SQL Server database into C# models.
July 15, 2024Taking meetings from the sidewalk
Today I biked with my son to his summer day camp and instead of rushing into an office to join a meeting after dropping him off, I opened Zoom on my phone and joined my regularly scheduled morning meeting.
July 11, 2024How to create a custom bound OData function
Create a custom OData function. Specifically a bound function which is a function that is associated with a specific entity type or entity set.
June 06, 2024Baratza Encore grind is off
Instead of the red tabs lining up which indicates you put the grinder in correctly, they were on opposite sides of each other. The misaligned grinder was causing the my grinds to be completely off. So instead of a grind size of 20, I was producing a grind of 40.
May 28, 2024How to view all Azure AD B2C users programmatically
This post shows how to get a list of Azure AD B2C users programmatically by using the Graph API client for .Net in a .Net Core (8) MVC web app.
May 22, 2024Deploy .Net Core app to Azure App Service via Github Actions
Setting up a GitHub Action to deploy a .Net Core web app to Azure App Service from your GitHub repository involves a couple steps. This blog post shows a detailed guide to help you set up a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions.
May 13, 2024How to throw an error inside an Umbraco Macro
This is a post about how to throw Umbraco Macro errors or how to turn off the generic error "Error loading Partial View script(....)" when loading Umbraco Macros in your Razor view.
May 09, 2024Updates to Today's Record High
I updated my climate tracking website, Today's Record High, this week to get better SEO results for users search for what is today's record high.
May 03, 2024Tech stacks don't really matter
The main theme I got from the post was that languages that are adopted by the majority of developers and businesses tend to stick around. The fact that they stick around means we eventually are left with a lot of languages to choose from.
April 30, 2024Transmission On The Radio Playlist Is Back
I created a script that runs every Thursday night at 11pm central time to automatically update a Spotify playlist called Transmission On The Radio. Transmission is a weekly dance party hosted by DJ Jake Rudh in Minneapolis every Wednesday.
April 15, 2024Lessons Learned From a Weird Client Call
I had a weird client call. These are the lessons that I learned from having a client call where the person on the other end didn't want to talk about working together.
April 11, 2024I'm a C# .Net consultant for hire
I'm Clint, and I'm seeking opportunities for short to medium term contracts utilizing C# .Net, SQL Server and other web technologies.
April 10, 2024The warmest winters in Minneapolis to date
It feels like its getting warmer here, so I wanted to show the actual trend to give me a definite answer. The project involved parsing through extensive weather data to track the average temperatures of seasons across years - winter in this case.
April 09, 2024Making a SaaS App
I have the idea to develop an application that allows developers and website administrators to view and edit Azure B2C custom properties and extension attributes.
April 08, 2024Upgrading Umbraco 7 to Umbraco 13
This is my journey about updating an Umbraco 7 website to the latest version of Umbraco - which is Umbraco 13 as of today.
March 28, 2024ChatGPT is like having an army of very confident toddlers.
ChatGPT is like having an army of very confident toddlers.
March 26, 2024When will healthcare catch up with AI
I see is people asking is when will healthcare will catch up with AI. The idea being that healthcare is lagging behind the technology advancements in AI.
March 25, 2024OData function is not returning data
This is a blog post about why a custom OData function is not returning any data despite returning a 200 code.
March 14, 2024How to Create a Custom Umbraco uSkinned Component
How to create a custom uSkinned component for your Umbraco project. This guide complements the uSkinned documentation with additional steps.
March 06, 2024Use AI To Visualize Organ Transplant Waitlist Size
This is a blog post to show how using AI to visualize organ transplant waitlist size by compiling data into a readable dataset and viewed in a chart
March 06, 2024B2C User Admin App Updates
I'm preparing to launch the initial version of the B2C User Administration app. Here are the updates that I've been working on in order to get the app set up and ready for customers to download.
February 27, 2024Progress: Azure B2C User Management App
I'm making good progress on the Azure B2C User Management App that I'm building.
February 05, 2024Joshua Tree Photos
A few of my favorite pictures from the few hours we spent running around in the Joshua Tree National Park.
January 31, 2024Just about the warmest winter on record (so far)
I pulled the top ten warmest December, January and February months based on the average temperature for each of the months from the ACIS tool.
January 18, 2024Creating Azure B2C User Admin App
There isn't a good way for end users who are not Azure admins to update user information without logging into the Azure portal.
January 17, 2024Friday, January 12, 2024
January 12, 2024Friday, December 22 2023
December 22, 2023FizzBuzz in C#
December 03, 2023Friday, November 17 2023
November 17, 2023Worlds Colliding: Dr. Becky Kennedy on Armchair Expert and Our Journey with the Armchair Media Explorer
November 17, 2023Real-time FAA Flight Data Powering the JetTip Smart Alert System
November 15, 2023How to Configure Cloudflare's Load Balancer Monitoring When Health of the Pool is Critical
October 23, 2023How To Migrate WordPress Websites to WP Engine
September 18, 2023Moving Docker SQL Server databases between machines
In this blog post I'll show how I migrated my SQL Server databases between machines and Docker containers.
August 31, 2023Home
August 21, 2023Armchair Expert Books
Or how to get the cover for a book programmatically. In the Armchair Expert Media Explorer is a website I built to track all the book, movies, documentaries, podcasts and shows that are discussed on Armchair Expert between the hosts, Dax and Monica, and their guests.
August 07, 2023React Native: Loaded "env" configuration for the "production" profile: no environment variables specified.
This is a post to describe a fix for an error in React Native, specifically an Expo Bare project, that looks like "Loaded "env" configuration for the "production" profile: no environment variables specified".
August 04, 2023Armchair Media Explorer: Running list of all media
July 21, 2023How I completely destroyed a production database
This is a story about how I completely destroyed a production database, what I did to fix it and the lessons I learned that I carry with me today.
July 18, 2023Get a list of all extension attributes from an Azure B2C tenant
This is a blog post on how to get the full list of custom attributes that exist in an Azure B2C tenant. This example uses Microsoft Graph API and the client credentials OAuth flow.
June 26, 2023Manage Azure AD B2C users dashboard
June 19, 2023Lessons from a WordPress hack
June 18, 2023Making the Armchair Expert Media Explorer
We've created a website that keeps track of every book, show, movie, documentary, article and podcast that's mentioned in each Armchair Expert podcast episode.
May 31, 2023Are there specific resources for older developers?
A post on Hacker News got me thinking. Is there a specific resource for a developers of a certain age? I don't think there is.
May 12, 2023Business names are hard
April 21, 2023Not right now phone, I'm working
April 18, 2023You don't know what I haven't told you
April 13, 2023How to use RabbitMQ with a C# producer and a C# consumer
Use RabbitMQ to create a system with a C# producer and a C# consumer to save messages into a PostgreSQL database using Entity Framework Core.
March 29, 2023How to use Graph API to query Azure AD B2C users using Postman
In this blog post I show you how to use Graph API to query Azure AD B2C users using Postman and return a list of users in your B2C tenant.
March 21, 2023