Blog
A collection of thoughts on programmning and consulting.
How 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, 2024