Managing Azure Key Vault over the REST API Members Public

Creating and managing Azure Key Vault was mostly supported through PowerShell cmdlets initially, but there are multiple ways of achieving this now - REST API, PowerShell, CLI or ARM templates. In this post, we will look into how we can use the REST API to create and manage a Key

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Azure Key Vault

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

Recently I was in a discussion with my friend/colleague on conducting a few ramp up sessions for the new hires in our team. The discussion went as below, Me: We should hold a few sessions to make the new guys in team more comfortable Friend: It's too

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Thoughts

ReactJS: Setting up the Environment Members Public

This post helps setting up the development environment for React on VS Code using Browserify and Gulp I have been playing around with React for the past few days and liking the one way binding and immutability concept that it puts forward. The component-based approach and having all related code

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
JavaScript

Disable NuGet Package Restore for a .Net Poject Members Public

If you have decided on Checking in Package Dependencies into Source Control for an existing project that uses Nuget Packages then this post is for you When using NuGet package references that are not included in the source control, these packages gets restored during build time. There are multiple ways

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Programming

Checking in Package Dependencies into Source Control Members Public

This post looks into why we should include packages in the source control and not resolve it via configuration files at build time. Over the past few years, Package Managers have gained an important role in the way software gets developed. There is an increasing number of package managers catering

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Programming

git checkout TFS Members Public

It's been a year since using Git as my mainstream version control system and I am loving it! Before Git, I had used Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) for a very long time and was so used to it that I found Git a bit complex and overwhelming

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Productivity

CLAL - Command Line Application Launcher Members Public

CLAL (Command Line Application Launcher) is a desktop application to launch any (currently supports only SQL Server Management Studio - ssms) command line application. It helps manage different configurations with which a command line application can be launched - such as different connection strings to various databases. ** Install the latest

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Tools

Refactoring to Improve Testability: Extracting Dependencies Members Public

In the earlier post, Removing Unnecessary Dependencies, we saw how having an unnecessary dependency hinders testability. In this post we will see just the opposite of that - extracting functionality out of a class and creating another class to separate responsibilities, making it easier to test and adhere to Single

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Testing