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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Setting up Your Angular Environment

Pixel by LabCorp Releases At Home Test

LabCorp has released an at-home test for COVID-19. Here are a few important notes about the test:

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Global Azure Virtual 2020

How to Reset a 7th Generation iPod Touch

Hiding Your Background When Working From Home

At this point, nearly everyone who is working remote has had to use Zoom, Microsoft Teams, WebEx, Skype, and others.

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Filtering on Include in EF Core

For years (quite literally 3 years) I’ve been waiting for filtering to be available on includes within Entity Framework, or more specifically, EF Core. Finally, the next preview should have this included. From the pull request, the additional operations to be specified inside Include/ThenInclude are:

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Debugging COVID-19 Data Using Excel

When looking for historical Pennsylvania COVID-19 data, I came across the Covid Tracking website. They cover all states and take historical screen shots of the data. The reason I wanted to get this data was to validate the common statement of “Positive Case Numbers are Decreasing.” The reason I wanted this was because I believe that there is a direct correlation between the positive case numbers and the total number of tests. So, to calculate this out, I went to Microsoft Excel.

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GitHub is Free for Teams

Google's Stadia Gaming Free for Two Months

Since video games allow socializing through the platform, Google has decided to offer their Stadia gaming platform free for the next two months across 14 different countries. Stadia is an online gaming platform that is competing with Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon. Stadia offers both mobile and browser play. You can also use any desktop, laptop, tablet, and Android smartphone. It also supports playing on your TV through a Chromecast Ultra.

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Technology Events in 2020

By now you’ve likely heard that there will be few, if any, in-person technology events between now and July 1, 2020. What you may not have heard is that many are cancelling the events altogether or moving all events in the next twelve months to an online only format. Below you’ll find a partial list of notable tech events in 2020 and their current status as of this post:

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