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