Azure How to update a Kubernetes cluster I have logged some time ago How I have moved my Ghost blog to Azure Kubernetes. The point is that periodically Kubernetes gets updated and as described in Upgrade an
Smart Home My Smart Home: Logitech Harmony integration via Homebridge In my previous posts I have given an introduction to my smart-home setup and described the setup of my Philips Hue lights and Eve door sensors. Finally I have concluded
Smart Home My Smart Home: HomeKit setup In my previous three posts I have given an introduction to my smart-home setup and described the setup of my Philips Hue lights and Eve door sensors. In this post
Smart Home My Smart Home: Eve sensors, August smart lock and Arlo cameras In my previous two posts I have given an introduction to my smart-home setup and described the setup of my Philips Hue lights. In this post I will describe other
Smart Home My Smart Home: Philips Hue lights, switches and sensors In the previous post I have described the first aspects to take in consideration when setting up a new smart home. In this post I will describe my experiences specifically
Smart Home My Smart Home: introduction Two years ago, when I bought my new home, I knew that I want it connected as much as possible. In this series of posts, I will describe my reasoning
Azure Azure Storage Explorer: upload files with the correct Content-Type If you use any type of Azure Storage (or even CosmosDB), you must know Azure Storage Explorer. This is a tool based on Electron and available for Windows, Mac OSX
TypeScript TypeScript: ignore compilation errors with ts-ignore Sometimes, during client side development in TypeScript, your project might not compile. Not because of your fault, but because you don't have a declaration files for libraries you are using
Azure How I have moved my Ghost blog to Azure Kubernetes I have written already in this blog How I have moved my blog to Ghost. That solution worked well until the beginning of this year, when there has been a
Visual Studio Code How to configure a TypeScript + WebPack project in Visual Studio Code If you develop in Angular or React or similar client side JavaScript framework, it's not common to have a CLI (Command Line Interface) that does the project scaffolding. This is
Visual Studio Visual Studio: add After-Publish script For a project, I needed to execute a script to patch a file after it has been published to a local folder. After-Publish script aren't editable in the Visual Studio
.NET Using Stored Procedure for CRUD Operations in SQL Server Having to deal with many customers and projects, sometimes it still happens to me to have to deal with projects that implement CRUD operations with Stored Procedures in SQL Server.
Xamarin Xamarin.UITests for Android not running locally In the recent past, I had the issue that I could not run Xamarin.UITests for Android locally on my computer. This issue drove me crazy for long time, even
Android An update on Android emulators: Hyper-V and HAXM Hyper-V Already around one year ago, I have already written about Hyper-V support for Android emulators. During this year, a few things have been simplified, mainly thanks to the fact
Xbox How to play Xbox One games on Windows 10 To play Xbox games on Windows 10, first of all you need a game compatible with Xbox Play Anywhere: in the previous link you can find the full list of
Visual Studio Setup of Tabs vs Whitespaces on most common IDEs If for you it is important to correctly format your code, you know very well about the whitespaces versus tabs dilemma. Generally, in the past tabs were preferred, because they
.NET How to use a controller from another assembly in Asp.Net Core Let's suppose you have a Asp.Net Core application and you want to split the controllers in different class libraries (for example, to place the API controllers in a separate
.NET Visual Studio error: "The project file cannot be opened by the project system, because it is missing some critical imports or the referenced SDK cannot be found." It happened to me, recently, to work on multiple .NET Core solutions from various customers, but I was not able to open them. Or better: Visual Studio was able to
.NET .NET Core Transitive Dependencies and how to block them In .NET Core, differently from .NET Framework, both Package and Project Dependencies are Transitive by default. Let's suppose for example to have the following project structure: Project DAL: it references
.NET Develop graphical Linux apps on Windows with the WSL, Visual Studio and Mono In this guide, I will present you the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and how to develop graphical Linux applications on Windows with Visual Studio, thanks to Mono used as
Azure How I have moved my blog to Ghost During my past holidays, I have migrated my blog from Blogifier to Ghost. The main reason of this move has been the lack of development of Blogifier (and even before,
Android Hyper-V support for Google Android emulators At Build 2018, Microsoft has announced the Hyper-V support for the Google Android emulators. Before discussing about this, let's have an introduction about how we have arrived here. Traditionally, the
.NET How to configure Code Analysis in .NET Core Code Analysis (formerly FxCop) is a very powerful tool to help improving the code quality in .NET projects. Let's make a bit of history: the previous version of this tool
GitHub GitHub: how to reset the content of a repository Steps to follow in case you want to reset (i.e. empty) the content of a GitHub repository, without deleting the full repository itself: in case you don't already have
Azure Zoo 105 Podcast: adding Azure Blob storage In this last step of my application, I wanted to save the podcast episodes (the real mp3 files) in an Azure Blob storage. I didn't want to slow down my
