Creating an Azure SQL Server Instance
This post details the steps I took to create a new SQL Server instance on Azure and connect to it in Visual Studio. It was a very simple process and beats the heck out of installing a instance of SQL [...]
Deploy a Blazor WebAssembly App To AWS S3 Using GitHub Actions
In this tutorial, I will walk through the process of creating a GitHub Action YAML script specifically designed for building and deploying a Blazor WebAssembly app to an existing AWS S3 bucket. Our focus will be on the YAML script [...]
Why Do I Write Unit Tests
I've heard time and time again, "Unit tests are a waste of time" or "Unit tests are too much work for too little benefit." While I agree that poorly executed unit tests may not yield significant advantages, when done properly [...]
Creating a Windows Service and Installer using .net and WiX
I recently completed a project where I had to create a new windows service and installer. This was not the first windows service application we had built, but it was the first new one built using Visual Studio 2019 where [...]
Adding Bootstrap to a New React Project
Bootstrap is a very popular toolkit used by many to quickly build responsive, mobile friendly apps. Under the hood, Bootstrap relies heavily upon jQuery to perform direct DOM manipulation used to achieve that responsiveness but that runs counter to the [...]
Creating a New React App With create-react-app
There are 100,000 different ways to setup and configure a react app. What I'm going to cover today is the method I think is by far the easiest for getting an app and full development environment up and running in [...]
Do I Already Have an npm Package Installed?
I've run through many tutorials and courses over the years that have me install an npm package or two so I often forget what I have installed. Recently I looked up how to use the create-react-app package and, in their [...]
Accepting User Input in Python
Last night, I created a small python script that iterated over a list of files in a directory and removed a hard-coded set of strings from the beginning and end of the filenames. Today I want to add a few [...]
Modifying Filenames in a Directory with Python
I found myself having to edit the filenames of several video files. Each video filename had the same leading and ending text that I wanted to remove. This seemed like a good candidate for my first DIY Python script. For [...]
Installing Python 3 on Windows 10
Step 1: Go To Python.org Navigate your browser of choice to python.org/downloads Step 2: Download the latest version of Python 3 The website will automatically detect your [...]