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Ignore HTTPS issues with HTTPClient in .NET core

Ignore HTTPS issues with HTTPClient in .NET core

For a proof-of-concept I had to communicate with a restful api build by another team. The api is using a self-signed certificate to make it work over https. This would generate some https/

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Visual Studio Code won't update on my Mac
Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code won't update on my Mac

Every time there is an update to Visual Studio Code, I get a nice notification telling me that it will update after restart or use the 'update now' button. However, it never updates.

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DevTeach Montreal 2017
Speaking

DevTeach Montreal 2017

Last week I was honoured to be speaking in Montreal, Canada after being introduced by former colleague Roland Guijt who unfortunately couldn't make it this year. Of course I took the opportunity to

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Using TypeScript 2.1 in Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code

Using TypeScript 2.1 in Visual Studio Code

Currently I'm working quite a lot with TypeScript both on my Angular courses and also on projects for customers. So today I decided to play around with the new and shiny TypeScript 2.

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Static constructor in TypeScript
TypeScript

Static constructor in TypeScript

Last week I was training an Angular 2 course in Denmark when I came to the realisation that static constructors are missing in TypeScript (and therefore also in EcmaScript 6) So, I decided

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IoT and XMPP

IoT and XMPP

Because of the hype on the Internet of Things (IoT), I went digging up some stuff I have been doing in this area in the past. Back in 2005 we build a system

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Continuously learning F#

Continuously learning F#

Last year I finally started learning F# as you might have read in a previous post (http://www.ronaldharmsen.net/learning-functional-programming-and-f/). For me that means learning by doing, so since last year I

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Adding Azure Webjobs to your automated TeamCity deployment (CI)
Azure

Adding Azure Webjobs to your automated TeamCity deployment (CI)

For a ASP.NET MVC5 project running on Azure we deploy to Azure Websites from our automated builds with TeamCity. It is really awesome to have everything up and running and integrated with

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Measuring the ALM maturity level
ALM

Measuring the ALM maturity level

As I am asked quite often to do an audit or assesment on a application or developmentteam, I use several tools to measure how well software is being build & managed. One of

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Does quality software exist?
Software quality

Does quality software exist?

A while a go I did a session for a customer on my favorite topic: software quality. And more specific, how to measure, monitor and ofcourse improve the quality of your software. If

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Moving your SQL database to and from Azure
Azure

Moving your SQL database to and from Azure

For a project I needed to have a copy of a SQL database we already migrated to Azure for testing purposes. The customer sent in a support call for an issue while importing

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Learning functional programming and F#
F#

Learning functional programming and F#

Because I'm enjoying my vacation at home, I have some time in the garden to finally learn about functional programming. I know it has been around for some time and I have sniffed

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TDD and BDD -style automated testing Javascript in Visual Studio
JavaScript

TDD and BDD -style automated testing Javascript in Visual Studio

At NForza we take code quality and testing seriously. So when we need to build a front-end application with JavaScript we als want to test it. And because we use Visual Studio for

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Javascript as Universal Language on the Microsoft Platform
Speaking

Javascript as Universal Language on the Microsoft Platform

On April, 16th I did a session on Javascript on the Microsoft Platform during the Microsoft Techdays 2014 event. You can watch it here (it's in Dutch, sorry): Channel 9 Video Slides are

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OneNote 2013 trouble: OneNote needs a password to sync this notebook.
OneNote

OneNote 2013 trouble: OneNote needs a password to sync this notebook.

This morning when I opened OneNote 2013 on my development machine I got this warning: When I tried to click, there is no action... Trying to login again, no result... WTF! This is

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The next version of JavaScript: ES6 Harmony
JavaScript

The next version of JavaScript: ES6 Harmony

I was reading up on the next version of Javascript, called by several names: ES6 (EcmaScript 6), ES.next, Harmony etc. The official name is EcmaScript 6 or ES6 for short. It offeres

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Managing JavaScript Complexity
JavaScript

Managing JavaScript Complexity

During my visit at QCon San Francisco I visited mainly talks about HTML5/JavaScript (and some team/culture related) topics. One of the best JavaScript talks was by Jarrod Overson. You can find

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NPM: trouble in paradise with SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN

Tonight I was going to give the mean stack a try on my MacBook Pro, when I ran into these kind of problems trying to install some packages with npm. npm http GET

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Single page webapplications

Single page webapplications

Here are the slides from my mini-workshop on Single Page Webapplications. Single page webapplications from Ronald Harmsen

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Securing your API with tokens
JavaScript

Securing your API with tokens

At the moment I'm building a SPA where I (ofcourse) need authentication to my api. The most common way to do this is through sessions with cookies, but this might get ugly on

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JavaScript tooling: Yeoman
JavaScript

JavaScript tooling: Yeoman

While preparing for a new workshop on single page webapps (SPA) I came across these brilliant video's about yeoman. I love Yeoman because it helps you create and maintain a structure for your

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Another view on building (mobile) SPA's
JavaScript

Another view on building (mobile) SPA's

During my visit to the QCon 2013 in San Francisco, I attended a very nice session about how LinkedIn is doing their single page (mobile) applications. As the recording came online recently I

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JavaScript

Tips on SPA's

When looking for best practices I came across this nice blogpost: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/important-considerations-when-building-single-page-web-apps--net-29356 And this one: http://ozkatz.github.io/8-ways-to-make-your-single-page-web-app-faster.html

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Javascript everywhere
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Javascript everywhere

As a developer with very strong roots in .NET and especially C# I was very excited when Microsoft brought Silverlight (first versions where called Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere) to the market. This could

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Resuscitated my blog with a ghost

Today I decided to start blogging again, after being away from it for a year. Last year I focused on a lot on finishing projects and less on new technology. A new blogging

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