Hello, I'm   Jason

As previously mentioned, I recently replaced my Surface Book 2 with a Surface Book 3. Along with the Surface Book 3, I ordered a Surface Dock 2. I had not realized when I ordered the Surface Dock 2 that the video ports on the dock are USB-C. The dock lacks any other video port connection. So, I ordered USB-C to Display Port cables in hopes that would work.

I ran into issues with my Surface Book 2 last week. Since I needed to get up and running very quickly, I ordered a new Surface Book 3 from the Microsoft Store. Generally speaking, the Surface Book 3’s price was similar to the Surface Book 2.

Yesterday we made an announcement regarding TechBash 2020 on the TechBash website:

Dapr Runtime v0.8.0 has been released. You can obtain a copy by visiting https://jasong.us/2B1yT3F.

Microsoft just posted a new tutorial outlining the process to publish a Jekyll site to an Azure Static Web App instance.

Over the weekend, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) was updated on my machine. After it was updated, I was prompted to log back into my GitHub account. The first thing I was prompted for was to authorize VS Code to have access to my GitHub account:

Imagine this common developer scenario. You’re developing a new feature and using sprints. You cannot finish everything in a given sprint or your feature needs production testing before you feel comfortable with it. Feature flags help to solve this problem. For years, developers had to build their own structure to solve this. I’ve been involved with at least three separate projects where a SQL table was created that held the feature and a value was assigned to enable/disable a feature. If you use Azure, there’s a better way.

Over the past couple of weeks, the left-hand side of my original Surface Book started to rub on my desk. I found that a bit odd but assumed that the rubber feet may be starting to wear down. However, late last week, I noticed that the base of the machine was separating like the image below:

By default, if you setup publishing of an application to Azure from within Visual Studio 2019, the deployment mode is set to Framework-Dependent. When deploying to Azure, this will be a problem as Azure App Services currently do not support .NET Core 5. So, you’ll need to modify your deployment mode to Self-Contained. You can do this by entering the publish settings and clicking on the pencil icon next to Deployment Mode. A dialogue box will appear allowing you to change the deployment mode to Self-Contained.

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