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  • Serverless Architecture for Survey Web App

    Serverless Architecture for Survey Web App

    Purpose The purpose of this article is to show how you can leverage the power of React, C# in a serverless way of thinking. This will be done by designing a web app for survey app. Our requirement First, let’s determine what our requirements are. We want to implement the following use cases: View questions […]

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  • Getting Started with ASP.Net Core and Visual Studio Code

    Its a pleasure to post on this Blog – I used to work with Peter and have known him for a few years now.  He really is a great guy, even though I am jealous  of the fact he has a Tesla X. Anyway, I have recently been working on a video tutorial (links below) […]

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  • Affordability for your first mortgage

    You got that job, you got married. Maybe your wife is expecting a baby.  You are looking to buy a house or a home to be specific.   The question comes to mind how you can afford the down-payment.  You check the property prices and they are shooting up everyday.  Usually you need about 5% […]

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  • The art of slowing down

    We live in an age where we demand speed most of the time. Faster internet, faster service at the grocery store, faster pizza delivery and faster…(you can fill in the blank). When we will sometimes slow down?  Slow down while driving in the snow, slow down to play with our kids, slow down to yield if we notice a fellow […]

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  • Two Customer Service. One City.

    Here are two customer service scenarios: Went to my local printer in Kamloops to print business cards.  I was greeted with enthusiasm and felt listened to.  The business owner stated that they don’t have the basic paper for the basic option I wanted.  He agrees to charge the same price for the higher quality option. […]

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  • Be careful when shoveling show

    It’s December here in Kamloops, BC.  What this means is that the winter is really here.  With winter comes snow.  If you are like me, you might have a pretty long driveway or pathway that you have to shovel.   Danger with snow shoveling Snow involves heavy lifting for a sustained period of time. Heavily packed […]

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  • How NOT to enable remote access with ‘IIS Express’

    So you have your web application built in Visual Studio on Windows 10.  You run your application locally and it works.  Now you want to ship it to your client to test – remotely.  It doesn’t work because IIS Express would not allow remote access. You then googled how to solve it.  You found this […]

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  • Get started with WPF and MVVM – Build a Music Library using a DataGrid

    Who is this blog post for? You are a beginner in creating Windows desktop application.  You are interested in writing desktop application using WPF on Windows platform.  You know some form of programming.    You want to build an application using WPF DataGrid.  You want your application to look modern and great.  Then this tutorial is […]

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  • Nancy over ServiceStack

    From  Lightweight Nancy to ServiceStack Working on a project for a client, I decided to use ServiceStack.  I found ServiceStack’s learning curve to be smooth.  It feels natural for a C# Developer and Solution Architect.   While I was using ServiceStack version 4, I reached the limit of creating 10 request DTOs (Data Transfer Objects). […]

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  • Dangerous Designs with RESTful thinking

    Towards a better RESTful service REST web services allows disparate network to communicate on the internet using a predetermined format.  While this comes with faster performance, scalability, reliability and re-usability; designers must be wary of some pitfalls.  Some of them are mentioned below: a) Designers must be careful not to confuse RESTful thinking with domain process. […]

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