In this post I'm explaining how to setup the serverside so that you can use the umbRequestHelper.getApiUrl to get the Url also of custom Umbraco backoffice API controllers without hardcoding them in your frontend JS code.…
One of the most common issue we all face when versioning code on source repositories is being able to make changes to files that are tracked, but without committing them. Shown here is a git command to temporarily exclude a file.…
Exactly 10 years, on the 11th of December 2006, I wrote my first post on this blog, just a few days before quitting my first ever job in Esperia and few weeks before moving to New Zealand.Lots of time…
I’m in the process of migrating my blog from Subtext to Articulate. There are various reasons to this. First, not being MVP I don’t have free azure subscription anymore, and I’d have to migrate…
Lots of announcements the Connect(); 2016 event around the new wave of tools from Microsoft. TL; DR; Microsoft released Visual Studio for Mac, .NET Core 1.1 (with ASP.NET Core and EF Core) and Visual…
Last week, on the last day of the MVP Summit, I participated in the .NET Hackathon. There were many different topics, ranging from ASP.NET Core to Minecraft and HoloLens. But I was interested in…
Monday morning (USA time) 31st October 2016, at a certain point my post about “Surface Book vs MacBook Pro” got the first position on Hacker News. It triggered a good amount of discussion, and luckly…
Now it is an exciting moment to buy a new laptop, with Microsoft having released its new lineup of Surface devices and Apple having released its new MacBookPro with TouchBar. I have a super-old…
This the time of the year when usually member of the Microsoft community post about becoming Microsoft MVP or having their status renewed for another year. I also did that for 8 years, first on my…
I just bought myself a new iPhone 7. This was a long overdue change, as since a few months my Microsoft Lumia was acting weird, and with no clear future path for Windows Phones, I didn’t want to buy…