Saturday, April 8, 2023

Smart Home Concept and Choices

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Smart Home is a thing for quite some time. Not just for enthusiasts but for pretty much everyone regardless of whether we realize that or no...
Monday, March 6, 2023

When Your CyberPower UPS is Out of Warranty You are Out of Luck

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According to CyberPower support when your CP UPS is out of warranty your only options are: Recycle and replace the UPS. It's totally up ...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

dotPeek: a Totally Free Alternative for .NET Reflector

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As a professional .NET developer you recognize the value of a .NET decompiler. There are many scenarios when the original source code is not...
Friday, April 9, 2021

Problems Migrating From SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v17 to v18

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If you are an active multi-year user of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio you are probably well-used to a controversial history of this...
Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Reorder Columns in Spark DataFrame with Select() and Scala

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Sometimes, when dealing with a Spark data frame it may be necessary to reorder columns in a certain order. For example, to keep data consis...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Incorrect ReSharper Behavior for CS1591 Warning

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After upgrading from Visual Studio 16.8.x to 16.9.x the JetBrains ReSharper suddenly started marking a lot of public identifiers in the code...
Wednesday, February 3, 2021

.NET Web API: Confusing 404 Response to OPTIONS Request for CORS pre-flight

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Problem: when a Angular applications sends an OPTIONS request to its own backend to satisfy CORS preflight policy it unexpectedly receives a...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

C#/.NET: Validate Anonymous Objects During Unit Testing

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Say, we have developed a REST API based on .NET Web API framework and need to write a unit test for an end point that returns a collection o...
Friday, December 18, 2020

Angular: Mock NgRedux for Unit Testing

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If you use Redux in your Angular web application (likely it is an NgRedux from Angular Redux) and develop unit tests for components that d...