I read that to become a better writer you should write more. Here are my thoughts on consulting, development and life.
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. My first job out of "college" was working as a developer assigned to maintain a third party financial application that...
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. Register the Graph API appThe first thing is sign into your Azure B2C tenant and create...
I've gotten a few emails from my blog post on using Postman to query Azure B2C users extension properties using Microsoft's GraphAPI. The documentation is light but I've implemented this strategy over and over again so I wrote that blog post to help other people out....
This is a blog post about the lessons I learned from a client's experience with a WordPress hack. Having one of your client's websites get hacked is a harsh reminder that every website is under the thread of a cyberattack and how important it is to take the necessary...
My wife is a huge fan of the podcast Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard. She listens every week and is constantly learning about new books, movies, documentaries and other types of media from the conversations the shows hosts, Dax and Monica, have with their wide...
This post "Resources for Older Developers?" on Hacker News got me thinking about if there are specific resources for older developers of a certain age. When I first read the post only two people had commented, so I started to think if there are resources for different...
I'm trying to think of a new business name for my consulting company, msoftware. The name was something I put together during the pandemic when I split off from the other consulting company I found with another developer. After deciding to split the companies up, I...
Sometimes I find myself mindlessly scrolling through my phone after completing a task, even though there's nothing in particular that I'm looking for. I just default go for my phone. It's a strange feeling, almost like an automatic reaction that you can't seem to...
When I'm explaining a new feature or work item to other developers I get into the habit of thinking the person I'm talking with has all the information about the client or project that I do. It's far too easy to assume that they understand every detail of a project or...
In this blog post, we will explore how RabbitMQ can be used to create a system with a C# producer and a C# consumer, and how the consumer can save messages into a PostgreSQL database using Entity Framework as the ORM. To make this even easier to set up, we will use...