Hello, I'm   Jason

The Wall Street Journal has just posted that Amazon has chosen the two city combination of Long Island City, NY and Crystal City, Virginia as the two city second headquarters. This confirms the story that The New York Times reported last week. As Amazon continues with their development, it will be interesting to see when these locations will open and what roles will be located in each location. It’s anticipated that the new headquarters will bring over 50,000 new jobs to the two areas combined.

If you are doing any scripting or integrating using GUIDs and/or resource names, you may want to pay attention. Azure is changing the GUIDs and resource names for several service types on December 1st. Here is a list of what’s known so far:

At TechBash 2018, Stephen Bohlen talked about AI with Microsoft Cognitive Services. Watch the talk on the TechBash YouTube video to know more.

Yesterday, I started heading down the path to create a Twitter ViewComponent. As I mentioned, when redesigning my website I wanted to show a list of recent tweets that I’ve made on the homepage.

When redesigning my website, I wanted to show a list of recent tweets that I’ve made on the homepage. Rather than creating something that cannot be reused on other sites, I decided to take advantage of view components in ASP.NET Core. View components can be used similar to a partial in that it can render a chunk of the user interface, but it can also contain business logic.

Have you ever wanted to show when a blog post or tweet was last updated in a similar fashion to other social media posts? A few year’s ago I had borrowed a function that mostly handled this, updated the logic, and converted it to an extension method. Feel free to modify it over at GitHub and provide feedback:

At TechBash 2018, Richard Taylor talked about raising the value of unit tests. Watch the talk on the TechBash YouTube video to know more.

At TechBash 2018, Microsoft’s Paul Yuknewicz talked about five Azure services every developer should know. Watch the talk on the TechBash YouTube video to know more.

If you’re using a custom package manage, such as JFrog, Verdaccio, or Azure Artifacts, you’ll notice that each includes an upstream feed allowing you to cache publicly available npmjs.org packages. However, you may prefer to use the public feed for public packages assuring that you have the latest versions. In this case, you’ll want to scope your NPM repository. In a lot of cases, you’ll have a username and password accompanying the custom NPM feed. So, I recommend referencing the repository in an .npmrc within the project and storing your credentials in an .npmrc file in your default user bin (in Windows, this is usually %userprofile%)

In an earlier post, I blogged about using an Azure Logic App to distribute a link to an RSS feed item. One of the actions I had identified was to send a tweet to followers of mine.  However, late on Friday I had tweaked my Logic App to show more information. As a result, I started running into errors in my Logic App like the following: