Last week I attended a user group where Maarten Balliauw did two talks, one on Application Insights and one on request throttling. I made sure to ask him some questions afterwards and record a ‘Stupid Question’ of the day video. Here are the questions asked: 312: What is request throttling? 313: Why/when would you want […]
As you know, I’m a big fan of .NET Core. Turns out Mark Rendle also is! I had the pleasure of meeting this lovely programmer and his daughter at LeetSpeak last weekend when they did a session together. Rendle is one of my favorite people in the developer community, besides being very skilled, funny and […]
It was Friday 11 PM and I was tasked with updating all our PROD VMs. We still do this manually, and although we usually rotate who does it I have volunteered the last few months since I’m pregnant and wake up every few hours anyway. The last few times I’ve experienced some problems with our VMs, […]
Welcome to the second part of my Microsoft Ignite series! In this blog post I’ll cover news regarding Artificial Intelligence! To read more about the blog post series, and where you can find all the videos: Microsoft Ignite 2018 recap part 1: About MS Ignite and where to watch the sessions online Azure AI consists […]
It’s hard to stay up do date with all the constant changes and announcements, and as a Microsoft MVP I would like to make this easier for you. Therefore, I’ve decided to write a blogpost series that recaps announcements and news from Microsoft Ignite 2018. I’ve done this before with Microsoft BUILD (this year I […]
I’m setting up OpenIdConnect authentication for our system and came across a peculiar problem. Although I was able to log in using an external authentication server (for example a Google account) the HttpContext.User.Identity.Name would be null. But looking at the claims I could see a name claim. What was going on? When you authenticate the […]
A quick post to vent my frustration after spending a few hours trying to deploy a self contained ASP.NET Core app. I was going to deploy a portal for our Konstrukt implementation consultants, but the deploy folder would be empty and I kept getting this error when publishing from the commandline: error : NETSDK1061: The […]
I seem to be writing a lot about Application Insights lately, but I swear I do other things than write queries against our resources. We have application implementations consultants for our product, Konstrukt, and they each take care of several tenants. It would be very beneficial for them to be able to see errors happening […]
Today we started a new sprint, Sprint Bulbasur. We’ve never named our sprints before, but I suggested that we do that to make our sprints more fun. Jonas suggested Pokémon names and Mathias agreed, and with that it was decided that our sprints will have Pokémon names. The sprint planning yesterday started with some information […]
I thought I’d share some neat tips in regards to Log Analytics, as you know I’m a big fan and I’ve been spending a lot of time with it. This week I had to grab some information from our JWT token payload in the requests, but we log the header as-is, which means it is […]
I’m back from vacation and had a few updates I had to run updates on my computer. I decided to run the Docker updates as well, something I haven’t done for a long while as I haven’t been using Docker on my dev box. I was greeted by a message that informed me that LCOW […]
I just got back from my vacation, and what an amazing vacation I had! One week in the Norwegian mountains, one the Swedish archipelago, and the last one in Tuscany in Sweden. Amazing! Obviously, I took a break from the blog during the summer, but now I’m back with many drafts I need to polish […]
The day started at the gym as always, cardio (mostly spinning), chest and abs. With my hair still wet I rushed to work, just in time for our daily standup. Mathias worked from home, and many colleagues have started their summer vacation. Sometimes I wish the team was bigger, that I had more people to […]
About this blog post series: A few days ago, I asked on Twitter if people would be interested in reading about what I do during my workday as a programmer. It was an idea I had thought about for a while, as it is something I wanted to know when I was studying- and even […]
I have a bad habit of using the NuGet Package Manager Console in Visual Studio as a PoSh CLI (which it sort of is), and today I ran ‘dotnet run’. And then I was unable to kill the session. The console was unresponsive, and so was the NuGet browser. Arghhh….ops. I restarted Visual Studio, and […]
Running out of disk seems to be a recurrent thing for us, in particular in our Build and Edge environment. We really should add more disk, but we should also find a solution to the main problem- the increasing disk usage. After using WinDirStat to analyze disk usage I noticed that the Temporary ASP.NET files directory […]
Some notes for my colleagues for when I’m not around to manage the pipeline. For various reasons, mostly lack of time, we have been using just one build agent on our build machine. What a build agent is? Well, on our build machine we run an integration service called TeamCity. This service listens for changes […]
My dear friend Jonas is currently learning Chinese as his partner is from China. She is learning Swedish, and he is learning Chinese. Since we now work together I get to hear about his progress pretty much every day, and on several occasions, he has expressed his frustration with the quality of translation and study […]
I just did a session at TechDays Finland and although the session went really well I did have some unexpected issues. One hour before my session NuGet.org went down, and I had just cloned my repository for my session- and my session was pretty much code only. I ended up starting my session by showing how […]
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I have another blog post on Application Insights- I can’t help it, I’m smitten. The Log Analytics interface can be a bit intimidating, and same goes for the charts for Application Insight resources. It has been frustrating that I can’t really get my colleagues to use them more, […]
The more I use Log Analytics the bigger the fan of Application Insights I’m becoming. The query language is fantastic, the Application Insights service and tooling around it amazing. Yesterday I added Application Insights logging in our QA environment as well, to track SQL queries in particular so we can create some clever queries that […]
Quick post before I head home from work! I spent most my day updating my environment and one of the things I updated was SSMS. I was very excited to update SSMS as it has some new features that came out late 2017 that I hadn’t tried yet. With the GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation […]
While at the summit my laptop stopped charging- which was incredibly frustrating. I borrowed a charger from another MVP, and it seemed to charge. But once I came back home it stopped charging again and I was met with the following message: The power adapter attached to your system is not recognized. Attach a supported […]
I just came back home from the MVP Summit in Redmond, USA, and I was welcomed by a snow-covered Gothenburg and a close friend that cheerfully told me he had purchased a house. As much as I love the MVP Summit, and always have so much fun, it’s always nice to come home to your […]
I’ve been in bed sick for two days, and to celebrate that I’ve finally managed to drag myself out of bed AND had a shower (winning!) I did a short ‘Stupid Question of the Day’ (as I always say, there are no stupid questions, the title/tag is meant to be sarcastic). The other day I was discussing […]
A quick post and a neat little tip! We use Postman a lot at work and I really like the tool and have written and talked about it a lot. All our services are Web API services, and we have one client that talks to the services through a proxy. When QA is testing new […]
I was setting up a new dev environment, and for this environment I went ahead and installed NUnit3TestAdapter so Visual Studio could discover the tests. However, although the the test were found there was a new error. ‘Unable to fetch source Information for test method’ The only solution I’ve found to this, is to disable […]
The last few days there has been a lot of talk about something called ‘Planned Obsolescence’. As a software engineer I find this topic very interesting, as we as programmers, might find ourselves in a situation where we are tasked with implementing planned obsolescence. Planned obsolescence is the action of making a product obsolete before […]
Log Analytics has scope functions that lets us do many interesting things, and one very useful thing is to do queries across Application Insights resources. Each service we have uses its own Application Insights resource/instance, as we want to separate the metrics collected for each service- and it makes sense as they are deployed to […]
Earlier this summer the Channel9 team pinged me on Skype and suggested we make a longer video and talk code, Norway and food. You decide where- Seth said. Jokingly I suggested at the top of the Pulpit Rock. A two-three hour hike up the majestic mountains along the deep fjords to an edge that does […]