Using Docker Compose is a quick way to set up temporary environments, avoiding dependency headaches for projects that might be discarded at the end of the day. Here’s how I quickly created a ‘throwaway’ WordPress environment.

When working with APIs in Angular it can be easy to think providing the return type when calling ‘http.get’ will ensure type safety. And it will - sort-of. At least, it will appear to.

This poor site has been somewhat neglected of late - high time for a rebuild.

This appeared in my YouTube recommendations and I was pleased to see it aligned pretty well with much of what I’ve been used to in Angular projects lately.

A great video from Decoded Frontend giving some background on approaches for creating dynamic components in Angular.

I’ve used Cmder for my Windows command line work for a while now, however, the arrival of Windows Terminal has made me take another look at this.

I’m terrible at updating the various applications, frameworks and packages that are installed on my development machines.

A handy guide, provided by MongoDB themselves, discussing the con siderations when designing data storage for a document store.

Scenario - Building a project that has packages in an Azure private feed ‘just works’ in Visual Studio but VSCode receives a Response status code does not indicate success: 401 (Unauthorized) error.

TLDR The ‘Basic’ option in the SQL Express installer doesn’t install LocalDB, you need to switch to ‘Download Media’ and select it as the option there.

Scenario - An existing data type has changed, from string to int for example, and therefore may contain invalid data.

Scenario - You’re trying to build and/or run a Visual Studio type project and it complains

Writing clean, readable code is a skill that benefits both you and those who come after you. Recently, I came across Mat Ryer’s discussion on ‘line of sight code’, which presents some excellent guidelines for keeping your code easy to follow.

Having scratched my head for a while wondering why my Python 3.7 install was taking precedence over my Python 3.8 one, despite

I’ve been using Python a lot more lately so I just wanted to capture some of the setup I’ve been through as I know I’ll forget in future!

The following notes are a subset of the information provided in this tutorial.

Getting a compatible image to boot as a ‘Generation 2’ VM is not all that obvious.

A while ago I tried to setup an Elasticsearch and Kibana combo using Docker on my local machine and, well, things didn’t go too well (a complete lack of understanding my side). I managed to get it working in the end but only after several hours of frustration. As I recall the main issue was a combination of authentication and the containers not seeing each other.

While working with C# I have regularly typed in string.and then been presented with two options:

I recently had cause to do some work with Docker and inevitably ended up spending a lot of time at a command prompt.

I’m fairly sure that if I did a survey of the features I use, or indeed am even aware of, for pretty much any piece of them I probably wouldn’t even hit 50%.

I really like the concept behind OKRs. The idea that the business has something it wants to achieve and should have