Fun with AI AI tools like ChatGPT are evolving rapidly, and their creative capabilities are nothing short of amazing. Recently, I decided to test its image generation features with a fun and quirky prompt. The results? A personalized action figure concept that blew my mind! Let me walk you through the process and share...
Automating repetitive tasks is one of the best ways to save time and focus on what matters most. In this blog, I’ll show you how I used AI with .NET to automate the creation of social media posts for my blog. By leveraging my blog’s RSS feed, OpenAI, and Semantic Kernel, I was able to generate engaging posts...
Recently, I worked on merging two separate projects into one. Each project had its own Git repository, and I wanted to combine them into a single repository while preserving the commit history. Initially, I copied the code from one project, pasted it into the other, and committed the changes. If anyone needed...
I have been reading The Pragmatic Programmer and I have to say it is a fantastic book. It is full of great advice and tips for programmers. I highly recommend it to anyone who is a programmer at any level. Lots of the advice is common sense and things I already do, but there are also lots of things I know in the back...
While at NDC London I heard a great talk by Matt Burke about exceptions. I will share some of the points here. The talk was based in part on the blog post Vexing Exceptions by Eric Lippert. It defined four types of exceptions: Fatal Exceptions Boneheaded Exceptions Vexing Exceptions Exogenous Exceptions Fatal...
I was lucky enough to hear Mads Torgersen (The Lead Designer of the C# language) speak at NDC London about some of the plans the team has for the next version of C#. Many of these new features are in the preview stage, and can be enabled by using the c# preview flag in your csproj file. The C# team welcomes feedback on...
I have just come home from volunteering at NDC London. It was a great experience and I learned a lot. I met some great people and had a lot of fun. I can’t wait to go back next year. You may have heard of NDC London before. It is a conference for software developers. It is held in London every year and attracts people...
Grafana is an open-source analytics and monitoring platform that allows you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics data. It is a popular tool for monitoring systems, applications, and services in real-time. In this post, I will guide you through setting up Grafana in Docker to monitor a simple .NET API. Setting...
A few weeks ago I talked about .Net Aspire , well lets take a look at how we can use it with Elasticsearch. Elastic search is a powerful search engine that can be used to index and search data. It is built on top of Lucene and provides a powerful way to search through your data. Aspire allows dependencies like...
Managing dependencies in .NET projects can become complex, especially when dealing with multiple projects that share common packages. NuGet Central Package Management (CPM) is a feature that simplifies this process by allowing you to manage package versions centrally. What is NuGet Central Package Management? NuGet...