Career on Richard Borges

Microsoft's 30 days to learn it

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Here is an opportunity to learn new skills in 30 days, investing about an hour a day (give or take a few week ends)

Microsoft 30 days learn

I am planning to invest time in these three:

DevOps Engineer

Design and implement DevOps processes and practices.
Develop an instrumentation strategy with logging, telemetry, and monitoring.
Manage source control with GitHub to foster collaboration and automate build and deployment processes.

Azure Developer

What's the holdup ?

Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

So. Its been a while since my last post. I really should make, posting at regular intervals, a habit. What’s my comfortable cadence? I’ll try a few things to find what suits me best.

I’ve been following/reading Scott Galloway, some thought provoking insights on life, relationships and wealth

and listening to Scott Hanselman podcasts, especially this one, where Scott says

… I blog twice a week consistently for 20 years. And I podcast every Thursday for the last 15 years, 14 years. And the reason that that works is that I’m not doing it five days a week..

Third party UI controls - ASP.Net MVC 5

Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The wonderful people at Syncfusion have offered a community license for free which gives you over 650+ controls. Head over here.

After a bit of fiddling using their online documentation, I’ve finally been able to use the chart control in my ASP.Net MVC5 code. The 3 main dlls , I needed of the chart control are (changes to the web.config):

<pre class="wp-code-highlight prettyprint linenums:1">&lt;assemblies&gt;
      &lt;add assembly="Syncfusion.EJ, Version=14.2460.0.26, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3d67ed1f87d44c89" /&gt;
      &lt;add assembly="Syncfusion.Linq.Base, Version=14.2460.0.26, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3d67ed1f87d44c89" /&gt;
      &lt;add assembly="Syncfusion.EJ.Mvc, Version=14.2500.0.26, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3d67ed1f87d44c89" /&gt;
&lt;/assemblies&gt;
</pre>

To get around a Visual Studio build error, I had to add the following to the web.config

<pre class="wp-code-highlight prettyprint linenums:1">&lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
     &lt;assemblyIdentity name="Syncfusion.EJ" culture="neutral" publicKeyToken="3d67ed1f87d44c89" /&gt;
     &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-14.2460.0.26" newVersion="14.2460.0.26" /&gt;
&lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
&lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
    &lt;assemblyIdentity name="Syncfusion.Linq.Base" culture="neutral" publicKeyToken="3d67ed1f87d44c89" /&gt;
    &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-14.2460.0.26" newVersion="14.2460.0.26" /&gt;
&lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
</pre>

And lastly one javascript library, ej.widgets.all.min (8,466 kb), which after using their tool csg, � (for the chart control only) reduced it to (ej.chart.min.js) 909kb.

In _layout.cshtml, added:

<pre class="wp-code-highlight prettyprint linenums:1">&lt;script src="~/Scripts/ej/ej.chart.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;    
@RenderSection("scripts", required: false)    
@Html.EJ().ScriptManager()
</pre>

and in viewname.cshtml, added

<pre class="wp-code-highlight prettyprint linenums:1">@(Html.EJ().Chart("presentationReport"))
</pre>

Getting deeper into C# and Akka.net

Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Been reading the wonderful tips and tricks in C# by Jason Roberts , bought to you by LeanPub .

Also created a web project using signalR and Akka.net following the Jason Roberts course in Pluralsight. SignalR takes care of the communications between the (browser) client and (web) server, while Akka.net takes care of the (heavy) message processing. All very fascinating and works well under load.

Team Leadership

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Reading about Roy Osherove’’s views on Development Team Leadership. Quite interesting.