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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.The…… Continue reading Employers Please Change This

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. Function loadFork { c:\users\<user account>\AppData\Local\Fork\fork.exe $pwd } Set-Alias -Name fork -Value loadFork Change to a certain folder I have many of these set up to easily change to my project folders and…… Continue reading Example Powershell/Windows Terminal Command setup

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 StudioJetbrains Resharper Ultimate- I currently don’t use this, but when I did it was great. Scooter…… Continue reading Must have applications for software development 2021 Version

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. public string…… Continue reading Check table configurations in EF Core 3.1

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.…… Continue reading Open plan offices are a BAD idea

What to do when you have been ghosted by a recruiter

I have recently been ghosted by a recruiter from a local company and it is very frustrating. I am sure that I did not get the job, but it would be nice to have a simple answer and some feedback on why they didn’t select me. I feel like the following article blames the candidate,…… Continue reading What to do when you have been ghosted by a recruiter

Proper case a string using RegEx in Javascript, except for words in parenthesis

Today I had to find a way to proper case a string, except anything that is in parenthesis. That sounds like a mouthful, so to clarify, I wanted to turn “JAVASCRIPT ROCKS (JS)” into “Javascript Rocks (JS)”, so I created a regular expression to do this task in an Adobe LiveCycle form. this.rawValue = this.rawValue.replace(/(?!\w*\))(\w\S*)/g, function(txt){…… Continue reading Proper case a string using RegEx in Javascript, except for words in parenthesis

Must have applications for development

I recently had to re-install ALL of the applications that I use at work when they gave me a new Windows 7 based computer, so I thought I would list out the apps that I HAVE to have to operate. These are listed in no particular order: Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Express Visual Studio 2012 -…… Continue reading Must have applications for development

Hire Remotely

As I wrote in my post Working From Home, I loved working remotely and I wish more companies would hire remote workers. I felt I was much more productive, I felt I was healthier and I just read an article from one of my favorite programmers called “Hire Remotely”. If you have a company, please…… Continue reading Hire Remotely

Adding a solution to TFS without adding the NuGet packages.

I was adding a project that I just completed to TFS source control and noticed that it wanted to add the packages to source control also, but I didn’t want that because you are not supposed to add the NuGet packages. They can be re-downloaded and installed during the build process for anyone that does…… Continue reading Adding a solution to TFS without adding the NuGet packages.