Let’s dive deeper into setting up your development environment for remote work. Here’s my complete setup guide. Terminal Setup VS Code Extensions Remote – SSH: Edit code on remote servers Remote – Containers: Develop inside containers Live Share: Real-time pair programming GitLens: Git supercharged Bracket Pair Colorizer: Visual bracket matching Git Configuration Docker for Development […]
Read more →Remote Work Setup for Developers: Tools and Tips
As the world shifts to remote work, developers need a robust environment that mirrors the office setup. This isn’t just about Zoom calls; it’s about secure connectivity, consistent dev environments, and efficient collaboration. We explore WSL 2, VS Code Remote, and VPN strategies. VS Code Remote Development The VS Code Remote extensions are a game […]
Read more →Vue.js 2 to 3 Migration: Preparing Your Codebase
Vue 3 is on the horizon (currently in alpha). The biggest change is the **Composition API**, which solves the code organization issues of the Options API in large components. This guide prepares your Vue 2 codebase for the eventual migration. Options API vs Composition API The ‘setup’ Method Instead of scattering logic across data, methods, […]
Read more →Introduction to Pulumi: Infrastructure as Real Code
While Terraform uses a proprietary DSL (HCL), Pulumi allows you to define infrastructure using general-purpose programming languages like C#, TypeScript, Python, and Go. This brings the full power of your IDE, testing frameworks, and package managers to infrastructure. Infrastructure in C# Using .NET Core to define an Azure Resource Group and Storage Account. Benefits of […]
Read more →Azure Bicep Preview: ARM Templates Made Simple
March 2020 marks the initial public preview of Project Bicep, a domain-specific language (DSL) for deploying Azure resources. It aims to drastically simplify the verbose JSON syntax of ARM templates. While still experimental (v0.1), it offers a glimpse into the future of Azure Infrastructure as Code. Bicep vs ARM JSON Bicep is a transparent abstraction […]
Read more →LK DevConf 2020: Building for the Cloud-Native Era
Last weekend I presented at LK DevConf 2020 in Letterkenny. The theme this year was cloud-native development, and the energy was incredible. My Session: Kubernetes for .NET Developers I showed how to take a .NET Core application from local development to production on Kubernetes: Dockerfile best practices for .NET Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts Health […]
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