Jason N. Gaylord
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I live with my family in the rolling hills of Northeastern Pennsylvania. I'm a web developer by trade, but have broad experience in various business areas. Want to know more about me?

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Moving JasonGaylord.com to GitHub Pages

Over the past several weeks I’ve hinted that I may move my website, JasonGaylord.com, over to GitHub Pages. I wanted to do this for a few reasons. The biggest reason was to focus more on delivering content and posts and less on the way something looked and how it worked. CloudScribe is a great .NET Core CMS that offers a lot of flexibility in a full featured website. However, that’s not the needs of my personal site.

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Scheduling GitHub Pages Posts for Future Dates

I’ve been searching all over the web trying to find a way that I could schedule posts for future dates on GitHub pages. I have a tendency of writing content well in advance and scheduling the content to be released for future dates. I was struggling to find a sound solution for this. Searching online directed me to:

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Announcing the SpaacedOut Jekyll Theme

For the past several weeks I’ve been working on my first Jekyll theme called SpaacedOut. Jekyll themes are also used by GitHub Pages as GitHub Pages are actually a Jekyll site under the hood. The theme is responsive and contains a basic look and feel with a menu on the left in a desktop view and the menu collapsed, but available as a slide out, in a mobile view. This will give you an idea of what the theme looks like:

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Static Site Generators

I’ve been experimenting with Jekyll and GitHub Pages lately. Jekyll is a Ruby-based generator that uses the Liquid template langue to generate the static content. Ruby is not my most fluent language as I typically develop in C#. Did you know that there are static site generators for other languages? Jamstack has put together a website called StaticGen that lists the various static generators and their language. For .NET and C#, there are 7 different static generators, DocFX being the most popular as it’s Microsoft sponsored. But, there are others. Visit their site to filter based on what languages you lean towards. I’m interested in hearing which generators you prefer and what interesting ways you are using them.

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Use Vanilla JavaScript to Set Link Targets in Container

There are times where using a full JavaScript framework simply does not make sense. In these cases, you’ll need to use traditional, vanilla JavaScript to enumerate through the DOM. With ES6, the for…each loop is no longer valid. So, you’ll need to use a for…of loop. Let’s assume we have a div with a class of page-content. We may want to look for all links within that container and set the target of those links to a new tab. We can accomplish this like so:

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GitHub Pages Dependencies and Versions

Jekyll 4.0 was released on August 20, 2019. However, GitHub pages does not natively support 4.0 today. They currently support only version 3.8.5 today. There are ways to pre-compile you application using Jekyll 4 and deploy the contents to the gh-pages branch of your GitHub pages application. One way you can accomplish this is by using a GitHub action such as the one built by Bryan Schuetz. GitHub also limits the dependencies they support out of the box. So, if you’d like to use jekyll-admin, for example, you’ll have to pre-compile. I recommend that before starting to use GitHub Pages with Jekyll, you are certain you are aligning your dependencies with those found on GitHub Pages. The site https://pages.github.com/versions/ will help you with this.

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One Week Remains for TechBash Call For Speakers

There is now just 1 week remaining for the Call for Speakers for TechBash 2020. TechBash is an event geared towards web and software development, DevOps, and cloud technologies. We continue to feature speakers from a very diverse skillset and background. To submit for the event, you can visit the link over at Sessionize by visiting https://jasong.us/tb20cfp.

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Software Architecture Virtual Conference

Come learn from Microsoft Regional Directors, Microsoft MVPs, TechBash organizers, and authors as you learn about software architecture and methodologies. The event takes place on Friday, June 5th, 2020 from 10am-4pm ET. To register, visit  https://www.2020twenty.net/softwarearchitecture/.

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Microsoft Build Registration Open

You can now register for Microsoft Build 2020. Microsoft Build takes place starting May 19th, 2020 at 8am Pacific and ends 48 hours later at May 21st, 2020 at 8am Pacific. You can register or login now by visiting: https://register.build.microsoft.com/

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CSS Tip: Use the Correct Viewport Size

Last night, I ran into an issue with a container that was not expanding to full height. I could not understand why it wasn’t expanding properly. After tearing it down and rebuilding it by copying the CSS rules from my original, I noticed the height property. I had set the value for height to 100vw. Sometimes, when looking at something so simple in DevTools, it’s very easy to overlook typos. Be sure to double-check your values. In case you’re not sure what 100vw equates to, this is 100% of the viewport width, not height. I corrected the value to 100vh and of course it is now working as expected.

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