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“Coding the Coal Region” is a project sponsored by the Greater Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce, W/B Connect, codelicious, The Institute, and PennState Wilkes-Barre. The project’s purpose is to increase the computer programming skills in Northeast PA by providing students with access to curriculum, training, and certification modules to meet the immediate workforce needs of the computer programming industry. The group offers FREE online, instructor-lead courses to students in grades 6-12 that attend schools in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

Google I/O is back for 2021 and will take place virtually from May 18-20. The I/O conference is free for everyone to attend. Connect with developers from around the world at this year’s virtual Google I/O for thoughtful discussions, hands-on learning with Google experts, and a first look at Google’s latest developer products.

The TechBash 2021 Call for Speakers (CFP) is now open. Talk submissions can be submitted for standard sessions or full-day workshops through June 4th, 2021.

I have a Power Automate flow (old Microsoft Flow) that uses the Slack connector to take the contents of an email that meets certain criteria and post the contents to a Slack channel. It was working most of the time. However, on occasion, some runs would fail.

This is one of those tips that many developers forget about. If you use Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, you can set the default database that is selected on login. You can also set the color of the tabs in SSMS for that connection. Any changes you make will be saved for future connections to the server. To do this, choose the Options >> button on the login screen:

Microsoft has announced that the full session and speaker lineup is live for their 2nd virtual Microsoft Ignite conference. Hear from Satya Nadella, Alex Kipman, Mitra Azizirad, Scott Guthrie, Erin Chapple, Scott Hanselman and so many more. Personalize your schedule today by visiting myignite.microsoft.com/home. Not registered yet? You can register at register.ignite.microsoft.com.

Last week I talked about updating a website to .NET 5. In that same application, I had a need to use a value generated at build time in the release so that my appsettings.json file would be updated appropriately. An example of why you may need this is to set the last modified meta tag based on the build:

Last month, I blogged about Comcast imposing fees if you use more than the 1.2TB data threshold within a given month.

Last week, I was updating an application from .NET Core 1.1.2 to .NET 5. One of the errors I noticed when building the application was: InvalidOperationException: Unable to resolve service for type 'Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.IHttpContextAccessor'.

Amazon just released three new concept products to market if they reach their pre-order goals by March 19, 2021 at 8:59am PT. There are three products that are in concept right now.