Author: Michael

  • Bank of America Proxy Solution

    If you need to use the Bank of America Payment APIs, but you do not have fixed IP addresses, please contact me and I can provide a solution for you. I have implemented a solution for this and I can provide it for you also.

  • To Get AWS API Stage Variables with a C# dotnet 6 minimal rest api

    I am writing this because I could not find how to get the AWS Api Gateway stage variables of a dotnet 6 minimal rest api anywhere on the internet, so please see the below code snipett

  • Enable Http Transient Failure Retries with logging

    To enable transient retries in dotnet core, put the following into the startup process. In this case, it went into a WorkerService, so the code is in the Program.cs file. The above code will try for 5 times using a backoff logic that adds some random time to it so that the backoff logic will…

  • Enable WSL2 to access Global Protect VPN Tunnel

    To enable Ubuntu via WSL2 to access the Prisma Global Protect VPN Tunnel use the following commands from a Powershell command line with Admin Access: Be sure to check the names above by doing a ipconfig /all Also check this post to if the previous solution does not work. I did do some of the…

  • Dotnet packages I want to use in the future.

    Cocona – For when I need easy parameter stuff for a console app. It makes console apps more like minimal api’s GraphQL or Odata or Json api ?? which should I use? Dotnet Test Containers – To Make Docker easier?? Not a dot net package, but an api testing tool – k6

  • Employers Please Change This

    I recently changed jobs and the worst part has been the gap in Health Insurance. The insurance with my old job stopped on the last day of employment, and the insurance with the new job won’t start until the 1st of next month, so I have a gap in health insurance of about 1 month.…

  • Example Powershell/Windows Terminal Command setup

    Here are some of the PowerShell / Windows terminal commands commands I have set up in my profile. Load fork into current folder. Change to a certain folder I have many of these set up to easily change to my project folders and this main one to go to the root location of all my…

  • Must have applications for software development 2021 Version

    I wanted to update my list of must have software for development, mostly to remember what I am currently using. These are listed in no particular order: Visual Studio 2019 (Why don’t they call this VS 2021?) SQL Server Management Studio Jetbrains Resharper Ultimate–  I currently don’t use this, but when I did it was…

  • Check table configurations in EF Core 3.1

    To check the table configurations for EF Core 3.1, I did the following and it helped identify issues. It iterates all tables in the context and selects one row. If there is an exception, it will catch it and display some related information. It might be helpful to also capture the stack trace.

  • Open plan offices are a BAD idea

    I am about to start a job that has an open office plan and I am really dreading this part of the job. Why do you say? 3 reasons: I have been spoiled by having a private office in my last job. It was one of the best experiences working that I have ever had.…