How I do error handling in my REST APIs
As I make more and more REST APIs, I find the need to bubble up an object that will translate to an Http 200 OK result or an RFC 7807 …
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[C#] Internal classes and generic unit-testing baseclasses
This is another blog post in the series of “Things that gave me plenty of grief, but eventually got solved”. I was working on a component that utilizes the Azure …
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Why is authenticating a Bot so hard?
Up to this point, I’ve done a number of workshops with partners around the world on the Microsoft Bot Framework and time and again, it is the authentication that always, without exception, …
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Debugging an ASP.Net Website that uses Azure Key Vault
In a recent partner hackfest, the need to store a Username/Password combination in Azure Key Vault arose. Setting up Key Vault instance was dead easy: Sign in to the Azure portal …
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Playing around with the Computer Vision API
TL;DR In this blog post, I talk about how I spend 3 hours setting up a chat bot that can recognize batteries using the Microsoft Custom Vision API. Recently, a …
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ESP8266 running on batteries
If you haven’t yet heard about the ESP8266 then it’s time for you to wake up and get serious! This little beauty is a seriously low-cost WiFi chip with a …
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How is my plant doing, really?
I figured it’s time to post some pictures of my plant project at the same time that I’m trying our Word 2016‘s WordPress feature J You can clearly see how …
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Light regulation is now active
Apologies for the long absence of information regarding my Plant watering project Today I hung up a lamp above my plant in order to provide it with enough light as …
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Getting the newest entry from Azure Table Storage
Sometimes, all you want is to be able to quickly get to the last value of a sensor, or the freshest product in your Azure Table without having to do …
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Growing concerns about the direction of Xaml-based applications Microsoft, what the hell do you think you are doing by diverging WPF, Silverlight and Silverlight for WP7?? None of those 3 …
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