Hello, I'm   Jason

Coming this week is Pluralsight Live. Pluralsight Live is a free, virtual event that will allow you to hear from technologists and business leaders about the latest trends. The event kicks off on Tuesday, October 13th and goes through Friday, October 16th.

Yesterday I posted about connecting to the Bitly API to export links using Postman. Today I’ll expand on that a bit more and use C# to not only connect to Bitly, but generate a JSON file that includes all of the history (up to 150,000 links).

I’ve been using Bitly as my URL shortener for years and I’ll likely never switch. The service works great and I love the metrics that are produced. However, there’s no great way to have a backup of your links unless you pay for a higher version.

In this tutorial, we’re going to create a project that supports SpecFlow, nUnit, and .NET Core. To get started, we’ll create a new .NET Core project with nUnit support. To do this, create a folder where the project should be created and run the following .NET CLI command:

In a post yesterday, Microsoft announced that Bing will now be called Microsoft Bing. While they did not announce anything new, the icon is changing to a flat green icon to a new blue icon with some depth in the icon itself. In addition, the new homepage continues to have the search bar, but also includes the ability to scroll and pull up news for your organization as well as news from around the world. If you use Office 365, I’d definitely recommend checking out the refined homepage:

Over the past several months I’ve put together several hacks to optimize your experience within GitHub. Here are some of the most popular articles:

Coming October 15th-16th is a virtual .NET conference brought to you by C# Corner. You’ll hear from Joseph Guadagno, Matthew Groves, Mahesh Chand and several others. You can learn more by visiting their website at www.2020twenty.net/dotnet/ or following @CSharpCorner on Twitter.

Earlier this week, GitHub has officially released Code scanning alerts. To get started, visit the repository that you’d like to enable alerts on. In my case, I’m going to get started with the repository I created in yesterday’s post.

There are many reasons you may need a website scraper. One of the biggest reasons I use website scrapers is to prevent me from visiting a site to look for something on a regular basis and losing the time spent on that site. For instance, when COVID-19 first hit, I visited the stats page on the Pennsylvania Department of Health each day. Another instance may be to watch for a sale item during Amazon’s Prime Day.

We’re continuing to add more available roles. Previously, I mentioned that we’re hiring full stack developers as well as .NET developers. In addition to these roles, I’m now also looking for a business analyst that has commercial Property and Casualty experience.