We are over halfway through 2021, let’s have a quick look at some things I have done this year:
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Deployed a new version of the Pre Qualification questionnaire website for my employers
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Passed Azure Fundamentals Exam
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Mongo DB Atlas - experimented with using it for auditing my application
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SonarCloud - tried to improve the quality of my code
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Azure DevOps API -> built an application to show builds and releases from my Azure DevOps organisation, code is on github
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Experimented with replacing SQL Agent Jobs with Azure Functions, ended up abandoning this project but was a great learning experience
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Played with MS Graph - displaying profile pic from Azure AD but I am the only one in my org with a photo so abandoned this as well
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Added a captch to a website to reduce spam
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Charted my Gas and Electricity usage using the Octopus Energy API
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Charted various metrics from services I use, eg twitter followers, github commits, blog posts published
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Started learning react, easily connected it with Azure AD
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Integrated my employers project management system with a postcode API and google maps so can see where in the country different projects are located
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Tested dotnet 6 preview and the latest Visual Studio 2022 preview
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I was made redundant and got a new job
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Wrote my first piece of dotnet code to run on a Raspberry Pi
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Kept cost of Azure down, by removing unused services, refactoring and optimizing existing services.
Wow, I have done loads this year, what is next?
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