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June 2021

2021: Quarter 2 Review and Goals Looking Forward to Quarter 3

Thoughts Review

What Does It Mean To Be Productive?

Focus On Outcomes And Not Checking Off a List ✔

My Morning Routine

Sometimes All We Need Is Small Push To Keep Rolling

Important Life Lessons Learned From Running

I Had A Bad Start Today. What Can I Do?

I Don't Like Change. But Here's What I'm Doing About It

Waiting on Spouse Approval To Buy? Try This System

What's Stopping You From Writing Online?

Is it Obvious? Maybe It's Not!

Are You Multitasking Within Your Creation Process?

We Need To Fuel Ourselves To Keep Going, But How?

How To Get More Done? Here Is a Simple Trick That Works

May 2021

Looking To Start A Habit? But It Isn't New Year Yet!

Time's Flying And My Days Are Blank. Is It Really?

Passion Will Get You Started. But Is That Enough?

Bored at Work? Here's What I Did To Make It Fun Again

How To Be Amazingly Good At Asking Questions Online

5 Tips to Make it Impossible to Get Distracted

Book Summary: Write Your Book On The Side by Hassan Osman

Social Media Is Your Best Accountability Partner!

4 Years Since Losing 23 kilos in 6 Months

How Writing Online has Helped Me as A Programmer?

The 5 Productivity Apps I Can't Live Without

The One Thing I Changed About How I Read

What Should I Learn Next?

Capture - The First Step To Creation

How Twitter Changed My Life!

My Writing Sucks

6 Years of The 4 AM Club! Here's How

Hello 'Atomic Essays' World

How to Run and Access DynamoDB Local For Easy Development and Testing

AWS Serverless Dotnet-Core

How To Deploy Web App and Web Job In A Single Pipeline

Azure DevOps Azure

AWS Serverless Refactoring Series: How to Move to Clean Architecture?

AWS Serverless Dotnet-Core

AWS Serverless Refactoring Series: How to Improve the Maintainability of Project

AWS Serverless Dotnet-Core

April 2021

Going Serverless on AWS For The .NET Developer: How To Easily Get Started

AWS Serverless Dotnet-Core

AWS DynamoDB For The .NET Developer: How To Easily Get Started

AWS Dotnet-Core

March 2021

2021: Quarter 1 Review and Goals Looking Forward to Quarter 2

Thoughts Review

How To Protect Your ASP NET Web API Using JWT Authentication

Azure Dotnet-Core

AWS Lambda For The .NET Developer: How To Easily Get Started

AWS Dotnet-Core

Book Summary: Ultralearning by Scott.H. Young

January 2021

Book Summary: Getting Results the Agile Way by J.D. Meier

Why You Should Avoid Command Handlers Calling Other Commands?

December 2020

2020: What Went Well, What Didn't and Goals

Thoughts Review

Understand CORS and Learn How to Enable it for Your ASP NET API

November 2020

How To Automatically Deploy ARM Templates To Azure Cosmos Emulator

How To Create An ARM Template For Cosmos DB

October 2020

Are You Using HttpClient in The Right Way?

ASP.NET Dotnet-Core

How To Improve Your Online Reading - Why I Chose Diigo?

Productivity Tools

August 2020

How To Easily Generate Data For SpecFlow Tests

Testing ASP.NET AutoFixture

June 2020

How To Continuously Deploy Your .NET Core Azure WebJobs

Azure DevOps Azure

Migrating My Blog From Hugo To Gatsby

May 2020

HOW TO: ZIP Multiple CSV Files In ASP.NET

Programming HowTo

Simulate UI Scenarios For Front-End Development

Front-End TypeScript Cypress

My YouTube Setup and Workflow

April 2020

Connect .Net Core To Azure Key Vault In Ten Minutes

Azure Key Vault Dotnet-Core

Getting Started With Cypress: An End-to-End Testing Framework

Testing Cypress TypeScript

Simulating Different Scenarios Using Fake JSON Server API

Testing TypeScript Cypress

Let Azure Manage The Username and Password Of Your SQL Connection String

Azure Managed Service Identity And Local Development

Setting Up Cypress + React App + JSON Server + TypeScript

Cypress TypeScript Testing

Setting Up A Fake REST API Using JSON Server

JavaScript Cypress Testing

Don't Let Entity Framework Fool Your Constructors!

Programming Basics

March 2020

DefaultAzureCredential: Unifying How We Get Azure AD Token

Azure Azure Key Vault

Back To Basics: Constructors and Enforcing Invariants

Programming Basics

Generating PDF: .Net Core and Azure Web Application

February 2020

TypeScript: Use Sum Types To Your Advantage When Modelling Data

Azure DevOps Build Release Pipeline For Create React App

Azure DevOps React

December 2019

2019: What Went Well, What Didn't and Goals

Thoughts Review

Dynamically Create Powershell Alias

Setting Up The Windows Terminal

November 2019

Rename SQL Table and Update Naming Conventions for Associated Keys and Constraints

Bullet Journaling: How To Be More Productive With a Pen and Paper System

October 2019

How to Authenticate With Microsoft Graph API Using Managed Service Identity

Azure Dotnet-Core

September 2019

Brisbane To Gold Coast Cycle Challenge, B2GC 2019

Remote Debugging: Azure Virtual Machines With Visual Studio

Azure Programming

August 2019

Cycling To Work: What's in My Bag

Fitness Productivity

Fixed: Jaybird Run - Right Earbud Not Charging

Exercism: A Great Addition To Your Learning Plan

July 2019

Bulk Import CSV Files Into SQL Server Using SQLBulkCopy and CSVHelper

Variable Snapshotting in Azure DevOps When Using Azure Key Vault

Azure DevOps Azure Key Vault

June 2019

Enable History for Azure DevOps Variable Groups Using Azure Key Vault

Azure DevOps Azure Key Vault

Handling Too Many Request Error with Auth0 Using Polly

Azure AD: Restrict Application Access To Users Belonging To A Group

May 2019

How to Authenticate and Authorize Azure Function with Azure Web App Using Managed Service Identity (MSI)

How To Take iOS App Store Screenshots Using Google Chrome For Cordova Applications

April 2019

Code Signing MSI Installer and DLLs in Azure DevOps

Setting Up Dual 4K Monitors - Dell P2715Q and Dell U2718Q

March 2019

Custom Authorization Policy Providers in .Net Core For Checking Multiple Azure AD Security Groups

Azure Dotnet-Core

Tip of the Week: Toggl - A Pomodoro Timer

Productivity Tools

Building Windows Service Installer on Azure Devops

Azure DevOps Azure

February 2019

One Day Trips Around Brisbane

Digital Minimalism: An Experiment To Simplify Online Life

January 2019

Tip of the Week: Squoosh - Make Images Smaller

Windows Service Using Topshelf, Quartz and Autofac

Migrating Octopress To Hugo

December 2018

2018: What Went Well, What Didn't and Goals

Thoughts Review

Query Object Pattern and Entity Framework - Making Readable Queries

Dotnet Programming

Exclude Certain Scripts From Transaction When Using DbUp

.Net Core Web App and Azure AD Security Groups Role Based Access

Azure Dotnet-Core

Azure AD Custom Attributes and Optional Claims from an ASP.Net Application

Azure Dotnet-Core ASP.NET

Setting up DbUp in Azure Pipelines

Azure DevOps Programming

November 2018

Tip of the Week: Azure Pipelines - How to Find Remaining Free Build Minutes?

September 2018

Working Effectively Under Constraints

August 2018

Subresource Integrity (SRI)

Enable Cross-Origin Requests (CORS) in ASP.Net Web API Using CorsOptions

July 2018

HTTP Content Security Policy (CSP)

HTTP Strict Transport Security (STS or HSTS)

Ok I Have Got HTTPS! What Next?

Tip of the Week: Kumon Books - Creative Workbooks

TipOW Parenting

Managing Your Postman API Specs

Testing Programming

June 2018

Automated API Testing Using Postman Collection Runner

Tip of the Week: Reading Eggs - Learning To Read Can Be Easy And Fun

TipOW Parenting

Exploring AzureKeyVaultConfigBuilder

Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault As A Connected Service in Visual Studio 2017

Azure Key Vault

Tip of the Week: Prettier - An Opinionated Code Formatter

May 2018

Tip of the Week: Check If You Have Been Hacked!

NDC Security 2018 - Overview and Key Takeaways

Security Programming

Tip of the Week: Authy - Sync Two Factor Authentication Across Devices

HTTPS For Free and Why You Should Care

Blogging Security

February 2018

Share and Inspire

Thoughts Productivity

January 2018

Tip of the Week: Four Finger Swipe Gesture to Switch Between Virtual Machines

Trips for the (Long) Weekend Around Sydney

Setting up Build and Deploy Pipeline for a .NET Core Console Application

Dotnet-Core Programming

Tip of the Week: Text Editing - Convert Text Casing

December 2017

2017: What Went Well, What Didn't and Goals

Thoughts Review

Tip of the Week: Laps in Training Mode - Garmin Watches

Scheduling Recurring Jobs With a Cool-Off Period

Tip of the Week: Postman - Chaining Requests to Speed Up Manual API Tests

October 2017

Tip of the Week: Text Editing - Extract Data

TipOW Productivity

Authenticating with Azure Key Vault Using Managed Service Identity

Azure Key Vault

Tip of the Week: Text Editing - Split or Combine Multiple Lines

TipOW Productivity

Setting up an Electron Application using create-react-app Template

JavaScript React

September 2017

Generating a Large PDF from Website Contents - Merging PDF Files

Tip of the Week: Electronically Sign PDF - No More Printing and Scanning

Tip of the Week: Office Lens - Scan Documents With Your Phone

August 2017

Tip of the Week: The Headphones Rule

TipOW Productivity

Tip of the Week: Visual Studio Dev Essentials

NDC Sydney 2017

Tip of the Week: Learn Touch Typing

Generating a Large PDF from Website Contents - HTML to PDF, Bookmarks and Handling Empty Pages

Tip of the Week: Analyze Your Site Performance

Generating a Large PDF from Website Contents

Programming Design

Tip of the Week: Chocolatey - Install Softwares With Ease

TipOW Productivity

One Day Trips Around Sydney

July 2017

Tip of the Week: Testing Your Website Under Different Bandwidths

Azure Web App Restarting Automatically Due to Overwhelming Change Notification

Azure Programming

Tip of the Week: Hemingway Editor - Improve Your Writing

Signing a PDF File Using Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault

Tip of the Week: Beyond Compare - Compare Files Quick and Easy

Review: Pixel, Phone by Google - Made by Google

Tip of the Week: Grammarly - Improve Your Writing

Left Align Your Code For Better Readability

Programming Productivity

June 2017

Tip of the Week: Fiddler - Free Web Debugging Proxy

Tip of the Week: Using Git Locally in a TFVC Repository

TipOW Productivity Programming

Semantic Comparison: Improve Test Assertions

TDD Testing AutoFixture

Tip of the Week: Spigen - Awesome Phone Cases

TipOW Review Gadgets

Azure Key Vault From Node.js

Azure Key Vault Nodejs JavaScript

Tip of the Week: PNGGauntlet - Smash PNGs for Faster Sites

Setting up Git Credential Manager for Windows with Cmder

Use Tests As A Feedback Tool To Improve Code

TDD Testing AutoFixture

May 2017

Tip of the Week: Paint.net - A Layman's Photoshop

Azure Key Vault From Azure Functions - Certificate Based Authentication

Azure Key Vault Azure

Tip of the Week: Pocket - Don't Miss Out on the Articles That You Want to Read Later

Tip of the Week: Feedly - One Stop Reading Place

TipOW Productivity

How to Start New Habits That Stick

Thoughts Productivity

Tip of the Week: Password Manager - Get One If you Haven't Already

Todoist Template Transformer - Transform Tasks to 'X' Days From Now

Tools FSharp Productivity

Tip of the Week: Visual Studio Task List - Keep Track of Your TODO Comments

TipOW Productivity

Azure Key Vault From Azure Functions

Azure Key Vault Azure

April 2017

Tip of the Week: IF This Then That (IFTTT) - Connect Your Services

Tip of the Week: f.lux - Make it Easy For Your Eyes

TipOW Productivity

How I Included Scrum and Pomodoro Technique in My Morning Routine

Refactoring to Composite Pattern

Refactoring Programming

Tip of the Week: Buffer - Smarter Social Sharing

TipOW Productivity

Tip of the Week: AutoFixture - Make Your Unit Tests Robust

TipOW Testing AutoFixture TDD

Type in Your Native Indian Language - Setting up Indic Keyboard on Your Android Phone

How I Went From Couch to Half Marathon in Twelve Weeks

Fitness Thoughts Productivity

March 2017

Tip of the Week: Improved Code Navigation in Visual Studio 2017

TipOW Productivity

Tip of the Week: Rescue Time - Track Your Time

TipOW Productivity

The Problems with Known Exceptions and Ignoring It

Programming Thoughts

Tip of the Week: Tomighty - A Pomodoro Timer

TipOW Productivity

Learnings from The Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Course

Tip of the Week: Track Current File in Visual Studio Solution Explorer

TipOW Productivity

Populating Data for Tests

TDD Testing AutoFixture

Tip of the Week: Switching Subscriptions Under Same Azure Account to Access Key Vaults

TipOW Azure Key Vault

Manage Certificates in Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault

February 2017

Azure Key Vault Talk at Sydney Alt.Net

Azure Key Vault Speaking

Tip of the Week: Todoist: Manage your To-Do List

TipOW Productivity

Three Day Trip to Coffs Harbour from Sydney

Tip of the Week: Screenshots with Snagit

Tip of the Week: Moving Selected Lines in Visual Studio

Defensive Coding

How I Lost 13 Kilos in One and Half Months

Fitness Productivity

Tip of the Week: Quick Launch in Visual Studio

TipOW Programming

Avoid State Mutation

January 2017

Tip of the Week: Cmder - Portable Console Emulator for Windows

TipOW Productivity

Recording My First Screencast

Productivity Thoughts

Tip of the Week: Finding Keyboard Shortcuts on Websites

TipOW Productivity

Tip of the Week: Productivity Noise with Noisli

TipOW Productivity

Simulating delays in HTTP Calls For Manual Tests

Tip of the Week: Paste Without Formatting

TipOW Productivity

Making Code Reviews Effective

Programming Thoughts

Self-help Books

December 2016

2016: What Went Well, What Didn't and Goals

Thoughts Review

Make Your Code Contracts Stronger

Solve the Business Problem, Don't Mimic The Process

Thoughts Programming

Expiry Notification for Azure Key Vault Keys and Secrets

Azure Key Vault

November 2016

Accessing Azure Key Vault From Azure Runbook

Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault: Digital Signatures and Offline Verification

Azure Key Vault

Staying in the Learning Loop

Productivity Thoughts

Managing Key Vault Through Azure Portal

Azure Key Vault

October 2016

Maintaining a Blogging Schedule

Blogging Productivity

Review: Six Months and Counting - Logitech MX Master

Review Productivity Gadgets

Staying Productive Offline

Productivity Gadgets

Introducing Code Formatting into a Large Code Base

September 2016

Introduce Tests when Fixing Bugs

Refactoring TDD Testing

Keeping Sensitive Configuration Data Out of Source Control

Programming Azure Key Vault

Automatic Deployment of Future Posts With Octopress

Blogging Productivity

Continuos Delivery of Octopress Blog Using TravisCI and Docker

Blogging Productivity

August 2016

Data Hotfix : Things to Remember

My Morning Routine

Thoughts Productivity

Automated Deployment of AsmSpy to Chocolatey Using AppVeyor

Open Source Tools

July 2016

Finding a Job Abroad

Refactoring to Improve Readability - Separating Business Language and Programming Language Semantics

Refactoring Programming

Protect Yourself Against Line Ending Issues when Using Environment.Newline to Split Text

Dotnet Programming

Web Application Occasionally Throwing 'Could not Load File or Assembly or one of its Dependencies' Exception

June 2016

Own Your URLs; Nothing Else Really Matters

Blogging Thoughts

Could Not Load Assembly msshrtmi.dll?

Life Learnings After Being a Parent

Parenting Thoughts

Managing Azure Key Vault using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates

Azure Key Vault

May 2016

Managing Azure Key Vault over the REST API

Azure Key Vault

Make it Easy for the New Person Joining the Team - Have a Project Ramp up Plan

Thoughts Programming

ReactJS: Setting up the Environment

JavaScript React

Disable NuGet Package Restore for a .Net Poject

April 2016

Checking in Package Dependencies into Source Control

Programming Thoughts

git checkout TFS

Productivity Programming

CLAL - Command Line Application Launcher

Refactoring to Improve Testability: Extracting Dependencies

Testing TDD Refactoring

March 2016

Refactoring Test Code: Removing Constructor Dependency

Testing TDD Refactoring

Refactoring to Improve Testability: Removing Unnecessary Dependencies

Testing TDD Refactoring

Being Explicit About Time when Handling Multiple Timezone

Programming Design

PFX Certificate in Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault

Developer Learnings from the IKEA Experience

Programming Thoughts

Thinking Beyond Primitive Values: Value Objects

Design Programming

Using Fiddler to help in Manual Testing

Automated ClickOnce Deployment of a WPF Application using Appveyor

Getting Started With Freelancing Jobs Online

Thoughts Productivity

February 2016

Using Azure Key Vault from a Java Application

Azure Key Vault

How the Deprecation of Switch AzureMode Affects Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault

Setting up AutoHotkey to Speed up Trivial Tasks

Productivity Tools

January 2016

Optimizing Octopress Workflow for New Posts

Productivity Blogging

Organizing Tests into Test Suites for Visual Studio

Testing Productivity

Language Agnostic Books For Every Developer 2

Books Programming Thoughts

December 2015

Learning TypeScript: Setting up the Environment

TypeScript JavaScript

October 2015

Managing User Permissions for Key Vault

Azure Key Vault

Tools that I use

Tools Productivity

MSDN Magazine Article on Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault

June 2015

Managing Azure AD Application for Key Vault

Azure Azure Key Vault

May 2015

When your Architecture Screams Technology!

Design Programming

April 2015

Azure Key Vault in a Real World Application

Azure Azure Key Vault

Is Code Coverage a Lie?

March 2015

Moving Sensitive Information from Configuration File to Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault Azure

Authenticating a Client Application with Azure Key Vault

Azure Azure Key Vault

January 2015

Getting Started with Azure Key Vault

Azure Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault and Powershell Module Version

Azure Azure Key Vault

IsRegistered on Unity Container for Generic Type

Dependency Injection

Testing Multiple Implementations of same Interface

IoC Registration by Convention

Dotnet Dependency Injection

Language Agnostic Books For Every Developer

Books Programming Thoughts

November 2014

Using Repository Pattern for Abstracting Data Access from a Cache and Data Store

Design Programming

Not All That Returns JSON is RESTful: Understanding HATEOAS

October 2014

Configuring Unity Container: Comparing Code and Xml Configuration Side by Side

Dotnet Dependency Injection

September 2014

ASP.NET Web API and External Login - Authenticating with Social Networks

ASP.NET Web Api

August 2014

Waking up Early is All About Waking up to an Alarm

Static Generator is All a Blog Needs - Moving to Octopress

yo ko - A Yeoman Generator For KnockoutJS

July 2014

KnockoutJS For XAML Developers

June 2014

Thanks to Everyone Who Attended Our Talk at Microsoft India, Hyderabad

Speaking Windows 8 Windows Phone

May 2014

Azure Web Sites: Moving Wordpress to Cloud

April 2014

Windows Phone Series: Image Caching Library - JetImageLoader

Open Source Windows Phone

March 2014

Review: Two Months and Counting - Android and Nexus 5

Windows Phone Series: Bing Maps and Turn-by-Turn Navigation

Getting Started with PhoneGap: Developing for Windows Phone and Android

Android PhoneGap Windows Phone XPlat

Setting up the Development Environment for PhoneGap on Android

Android PhoneGap XPlat

February 2014

Staying Organized: Finding a system to manage it all

Productivity Tools

Thanks to Everyone Who Attended My First Public Talk At C#Corner Hyderabad UG

Speaking Windows Phone

January 2014

Windows Phone Series – Incremental Loading multiple data sources inside a Pivot

Windows Phone Series – Using UCWA to connect to Lync Server

MVVM – A Windows Phone Scenario – Part 2

September 2013

Get started with your blog

Thoughts Blogging

Photography - Learning to Click

August 2013

Converting a PDF for your Kindle

Giveaway : Get a license of your choice from Syncfusion

Windows Phone Series – Jump Lists

Windows Phone WP7

HTTP – A Short Dive

July 2013

MVVM – A Windows phone scenario

April 2013

Windows Phone Series – MVVM and ApplicationBar

Dotnet Windows Phone WP7

Windows Phone Series – Preloading Content

Dotnet Windows Phone WP7

MVVM – Does it really matter?

Dotnet Thoughts Windows 8 Windows Phone WP7 WPF

March 2013

Windows Phone Series – Incremental Loading

Dotnet Windows Phone WP7

January 2013

What made me choose : Vanguard UP-Rise 45

Gadgets Photography Review

Windows 8 Series – Drop Down Button

Dotnet Windows 8

October 2012

Windows 8 Series - Incremental Loading

Dotnet REST Windows 8

Windows 8 Series - Exploring OAuth: c# and 500px

Dotnet Windows 8

August 2012

Getting Started with ASP.NET Web Api

Dotnet ASP.NET REST

July 2012

WCF to ASP.NET Web API

Dotnet ASP.NET WCF

January 2012

WPF Expander trigger on IsExpanded to change the header

June 2011

Venturing out

REST...after a long time

March 2011

Finally!!!!!!

February 2011

Stars Do Count!!!!

WCF Simplified

January 2011

DataTemplate Vs Code Behind

Kick Start WPF

December 2010

An enterprise IT project experience

The wait is not over!!!!!

November 2010

Attachments in email - a new way

WP7 Application Model

...Retrospect

October 2010

C# google image search

September 2010

Callbacks in WCF

August 2010

Replace ‘Introduce Local Extension’ With ‘Extension Methods’

TDD and Refactoring

Refactoring TDD

July 2010

Seek the problem, Not the Solution

Hero or a Cheat????

Synchronize SQL Server database objects

June 2010

Role Based Access Control

March 2010

Not Able to “Start Debugging” in Visual Studio

Dotnet Programming Tools

January 2010

The Building block

A newbie to WF

the Nokia Monster

HP DV4

October 2009

Do Stars Count????

September 2009

Ebook Or Hard Copy

Deleting Multiple Selected Items in WPF

August 2009

WPF Certification !!!!!

SolidColorBrush List from Brushes

Scrolling a Disabled Listbox in WPF

June 2009

FxCop Custom Naming Rules