[2023] Sites
Those are the sites mosr visited –data obtained from https://takeout.google.com/?pli=1
Category: dev thoughts
[2023] In Links
| Layoffs in IT | https:/www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/google-to-lay-off-12000-people-memo-from-ceo-sundar-pichai-says.html |
| TypeScript 5.x | https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/typescript-5-3.html |
| Angular v1x | https://angular.dev/ |
| CHAT GPT and others | https://chat.openai.com/ |
| No new VS for MAC | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-for-mac-retirement-announcement/ |
| VSCODE C# DevKit | https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotnettools.csdevkit |
| MSFT OpenJDK21 | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/announcing-microsoft-build-of-openjdk-21/ |
| General Motors API for Cars | https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/12/23914060/gm-uservices-api-software-apps-car-sdv |
| .NET 8 | https://learn.microsoft.com/ro-ro/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotnet-8 |
[2023]Activities
ADCES Presentations
Caching WebAPI : https://ignatandrei.github.io/Presentations/CachingWebAPIprez.html#1
Database2Rest: https://ignatandrei.github.io/Presentations/Database2Restprez.html#1
Polly: https://ignatandrei.github.io/Presentations/pollyprez.html#1
React: https://ignatandrei.github.io/Presentations/reactprez.html#1
SRE with .NET: https://ignatandrei.github.io/Presentations/SRE_with_NETprez.html#1
UsefullEndpoints : https://ignatandrei.github.io/Presentations/UsefullEndpointsprez.html#1
.NET
Core8: https://ignatandrei.github.io/Presentations/Net8WhatsNewprez.html#1
Open Source Software
Nuget Packages
Github Repos
Open Applications
List of (92) Roslyn Source Code Generators with IIncrementalSourceGenerator : List of RSCG | RSCG Examples (ignatandrei.github.io)
DB2Code https://github.com/ignatandrei/queryViewer/
Port Chooser / Registration: https://github.com/ignatandrei/MicroservicesPortChooser
Interests
Roslyn Code Generators https://github.com/ignatandrei/rscg_examples
Blazor Wasm
Open Telemetry
Semantic Kernel
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Bucharest-A-D-C-E-S-Meetup/
Tools used for this
github:
Link https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/overview/explorer
query:
query ContributionGraph {
user(login: “ignatandrei”) {
contributionsCollection(
from: “2023-01-01T00:00:00+00:00”
to: “2023-12-31T00:00:00+00:00”
) {
commitContributionsByRepository(maxRepositories:100){
repository{
nameWithOwner
url
updatedAt
}
}
}
}}
Excel
https://codebeautify.org/json-to-html-converter#
For the 2024
Semantic Kernel / AI
Blockly Automation / Visual API
Book about Design Patterns in .NET Core
Start examples about Cloud Design Patterns with ASPIRE
video course + Book about Roslyn Code Generators
[2020]Activities
ADCES Presentations:
- Various methods of loading plugins in .NET Core
- Docker for Developers
- What’s new in Angular 9
- Ce a fost nou la Build 2020 (Windows Terminal , C# 9 , MAUI)
- ASP.NET Core HealthCheck
- Activity , OpenTelemetry and Jaeger for tracing microservices
- Testing .NET Core WebAPI
- WEB API Best Practices
- .NET 5 What’s new and awesome
You can find those at https://ignatandrei.github.io/Presentations/
Also, finding presenters for ADCES monthly meetings – see https://www.meetup.com/Bucharest-A-D-C-E-S-Meetup/
Also, I am now speaker in https://dotnetfoundation.org/community/speakers/ignat-andrei
Open Source Software
- Skinny Controllers Generator – Generate actions with Roslyn : Source . Blog
- SideCarCLI – run and intercept any (Console ) application : Source. Blog
- HealthCheck for version: Source. Blog
- Covid data – with Bogdan Bobe . Source. Blog . Demo
- WebAPI2CLI . Blog . Source
Books
- Console2SAAS – book with Daniel Tila about transforming Console App to SAAS : Free : https://ignatandrei.github.io/console_to_saas/consoleToSaas.pdf.html . Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08N56SD4D ( with a free consulting gig). Blog
Work
- Passing from monolith to (micro)services.
- Going to the DevOps route .
- Coordinating the Romanian Farm for EA.
Software Year 2019 in review
This is what impressed me in 2019
- On 8 January https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/
- On 21 January https://java.com/en/download/release_notice.jsp : Public updates for Oracle Java SE 8 released after January 2019 will not be available for business, commercial or production use without a commercial license.
- On 8 February Ie default browser
- On 12 February https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows95-v20-lets-you-play-doom-wolfenstein-3d-and-more/
- On 7 March Microsoft Calculator implementation
- On 13 March https://send.firefox.com/
- On 29 March https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/future-through-software-developers-red-hat-key
- On 3 April https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes
- On 18 May https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/microsoft-open-sources-algorithm-that-gives-bing-some-of-its-smarts/
- On 23 May https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/launching-today-free-wolfram-engine-for-developers/
- On 24 May Photo to OCR to Excel
- On 2 June https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-3-5/
- On 2 June https://blog.angular.io/version-8-of-angular-smaller-bundles-cli-apis-and-alignment-with-the-ecosystem-af0261112a27
- On 7 June https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/05/microsoft-and-oracle-link-up-their-clouds/
- On 11 June UIPath – with CoreWF
- On 11 June CoreWCF – community : https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/06/WCF-Decision/
- On 12 June Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal
- On 24 June https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-from-35/
- On 25 July Oracle EF Core
- On 5 August https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-will-disable-vbscript-in-internet-explorer-11-from-this-month/
- On 2 September https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/appdev/dotnet/odtvscodequickstart.html
- On 11 September https://www.zdnet.com/article/java-finally-goes-all-in-on-open-source-with-the-release-of-jakarta-ee-8/
- On 14 October https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
- On 9 November TypeScript 3.7
- On 11 December https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/Microsoft-Teams-is-now-available-on-Linux/ba-p/1056267
- On 11 December .NET Core 3.1
What I have done in 2019–and goals for 2020
In 2019
- I have learned
- .NET Core – up to the version 3.1
- Angular- up to the version 8.0
- Docker – up to the 19.3
- TypeScript –up to 3.7
- JavaScript frameworks for backend and mono-repo
- I have started
- To learn Azure
- InfoValutar – https://github.com/ignatandrei/InfoValutar
- Bingo – https://github.com/alexandru360/PresentationBingoCards/ with Alex Badita
- Coordinating automation work at the office ( I am TD at EA )
- Written this blog and series about
- Migrating from MVC 1.0 to .NET Core and Azure : http://msprogrammer.serviciipeweb.ro/category/exchange-rates/
- Creating mono – repo for JavaScript – backend and frontend: http://msprogrammer.serviciipeweb.ro/category/bingo/
- Become an MVP again https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/4025203?fullName=Ignat%20Andrei
- Organizing 12 ADCES meetings – Bucharest meetup about .NET and programming technologies : https://www.meetup.com/Bucharest-A-D-C-E-S-Meetup/
- Speaking at various conferences about .NET Core and Angular – see my previous MVP track
For 2020 I want
- Keep learning new versions of .NET Core / Angular / TypeScript / Docker
- Start learn AI / ML so I can be proficient ( starting point my InfoValutar)
- Finish migrating InfoValutar to Azure
- Continuing ADCES
- Continuing blogging ( this blog!)
- Speak at conferences
- Doing good work at the office
- Starting again the video series about tools in 5 minutes – maybe separating in C# and general programming tools ?
- Become MVP again
Basically, the same thing as for this year.
Intermezzo–options for loading multiple providers of data – part 10
We have 2 national banks – and we gather exchange rates from there. What if we want to add more banks -or let other programmers to add their dll’s to our software to just display the exchange rates from other banks ?
Option 1: HardCode all the list
var l = new List<IExchangeRates[]>
{
new GetFirstBank()),
new GetSecondBank()),
};
Option 2: Reading from some config file the list of classes – letting DevOps to modify the config file
var l = new List<IExchangeRates[]>;
foreach(var line in File.ReadAllLines(“myListOfExchangeRates.txt”){
IExchangeRates r= Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetType(line)) as IExchangeRates ;
l.Add ( r );
}
Option 3: Reflection – in the current assembly or in all assemblies to load the classes that implements the interface to load the data
var typeToFound = typeof(IExchangeRates);
Assembly a = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
var types = a.GetTypes()
.Where(it=>it.IsPublic)
.Where(it => it.GetInterface(typeToFound.FullName)!=null)
.ToArray();
foreach(var t in types)
{
recognizes.Add(Activator.CreateInstance(t)as IExchangeRates);
}
Option4 Load as plugins
use the library from https://github.com/natemcmaster/DotNetCorePlugins/blob/master/samples/hello-world/HostApp/Program.cs and there are 2 lines , basically:
var loader = new LoadExchangeProviders("plugins");
var exchange = loader.LoadExchangeProviders().ToArray();
Infovalutar
And one hour passes...(This is the result of 1 hour per day auto-challenge as a full cycle developer for an exchange rates application)
( You can see the sources at https://github.com/ignatandrei/InfoValutar/ )
Intermezzo–program based on experience–part 9
This post will be somewhat related to https://www.smart-jokes.org/programmer-evolution.html – but it makes total sense for me.
Let’s take what we achieved until now: We have 2 national banks – and we gather exchange rates from there. What if we want to add more banks -or let other programmers to add their dll’s to our software to just display the exchange rates from other banks ?
Let’s say now that the requirements are to to display the exchange rates for 2 national banks into a console program . The manager says that later we may add other banks to load exchange rates . I will try to explain some differences how the code is created, depending on the experience.
Junior programmer: – all the code inside
int Main(){
// code for load and display the first bank exchange rates
// code for load and display the second bank exchange rates
}
Internship programmer: – create classes
//create 2 classes ( first bank, second bank ) and a Load method
int Main(){
var firstBank = new FirstBank();
var data = firstBank.Load();
DisplayData(data);
//same for second bank
}
Seasoned Programmer: – creates interfaces
//add to the 2 classes an interface , loading into a list, loading data for all the list, display
int Main(){
var l = new List<IExchangeRates[]>;
{
new GetFirstBank()),
new GetSecondBank()),
};
foreach(var rates in l){
var data= rates.Load();
DisplayData(data);
}
Until now, it is business as usual. But, from now on, there are many things that can be done , depending on programmer experience and will to do things ( until some error arrives and there is an official task for it) :
- How to handle errors ( Polly ? )
- How to load different libraries that contains our interface ( writing code that loads directly a list with all classes / DI / reflection / config files / plugin loader )
- Think about performance ( loading data in parallel / caching )
- Add Tests + code coverage
- CI / CD
( if I do miss something, please put on comments)
What is my point here ? Is that I expect any programmer to go very fast to the level of Seasoned Programmer. But , after that, the knowledge of each programmer is relevant about how he does the points above ( or, if he does not …)
Infovalutar
And one hour passes...(This is the result of 1 hour per day auto-challenge as a full cycle developer for an exchange rates application)
( You can see the sources at https://github.com/ignatandrei/InfoValutar/ )
My take on battles in IT
First battle : VBScript vs JavaScript. Both were scripting on the browser. VBScript loose because NetScape did not implement it.
Second battle: Microsoft vs Java. Starts with a Microsoft Java implementation – then C# takes over.
Third battle: MVC vs Silvelight . MVC wons – Silvelight does not work against Chrome.
Fourth battle : Desktop vs Mobile+Web – Web wins by large , And with Electron + Cordova , web wins back
Now there are
- WebAssembly vs Web. I bet on Web.
- Odata vs GraphQL . I bet on GraphQL . OData was too linked to EF ( although now can work without)
- DataScience: Python vs R . I hope to win either ML.NET, either JavaScript.
What are the battles that you observe ?
Happy new year
It was a good year. I have realized those open source applications
- Kinect anti theft: http://kinectantitheft.codeplex.com/
- MVC Clearer data : http://clearer.codeplex.com/
- MVC Browser History: https://github.com/ignatandrei/MVCbrowserHistory
-
Hackhaton Team Net: https://github.com/alexandru360/WinDeskMobileSms
and I have been featured on the first page on www.asp.net
I wish you a good year on 2013!