5 VS Code Extensions To Rocket Productivity

Ruben Hernandez Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Programming Leave a Comment

We all want to write cleaner and faster code. Better code. However, at the same time, we all learn at our own pace, and if you’re like me, discovering new strategies and methods to be more productive can take some time to adapt to and fully adopt. The quickest way I know to improve the coding process is to use effective tools to assist us. Even improving by just 1% is still an improvement!

I’ve assembled a quick unordered list of five great helpers that help me with organization and time and reduce my stress level as a developer. This list will be specific to extensions for VS Code (for the most part).

SQL Server Agent Jobs with Spring Batch

Monitoring SQL Server Agent Jobs with Spring Batch

Josh Green Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java, Modernization, Spring, Spring Batch, SQL, SQL Server Leave a Comment

In this blog post, I will demonstrate a technique to query the status of a SQL Server Agent job that executes the SSIS package. SQL Server Agent scripts are asynchronous in nature. This can make it difficult to make code decisions based on the execution status of a script of this type.

Visual Studio Code Remote - SSH extension

Remote Development With Visual Studio Code Remote – SSH

David Hoffmann Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Programming, Project Management, Tutorial Leave a Comment

Does your personal laptop struggle to keep up with your development needs? Maybe your company is looking for alternatives to continually needing to upgrade their developersโ€™ laptops. Maybe a team of developers would benefit from a powerful remote server versus personal computers?

Today, remote development is even more streamlined than ever with the help of products like Visual Studioโ€™s Remote – SSH extension or with Jetbrains Remote Development. In this blog post, I will give a brief overview of Visual Studioโ€™s Remote – SSH extension and share a mini how-to on using it.

:Has Selector

Exploring the New :has Pseudo Selector and Its Uses

Lawrence Chabela Articles, CSS & HTML, Design, Development Technologies & Tools Leave a Comment

Through the years, we were told a parent selector would be an engineering feat that could not be achieved due to the way browsers render a page and apply computed styles to elements as a stream, one element after the other. When the browser paints a parent and inevitably its children, reevaluating this already-painted DOM to evaluate parents for children containing a particular context would be too expensive of a task.

As the years moved on, we all applied different hacks or strategies, either reworking our DOM to avoid the issue altogether or using various JavaScript techniques to select parents and add CSS classes to use instead. We were just waiting for something to save usโ€ฆ

Blazor Server in .NET 6 - Part 5 HttpClient

Blazor Server in .NET 6 – Part Five

Ryan Flachman .NET, Articles, Blazor, Blazor Server in .NET 6 Series, C#, Development Technologies & Tools, Tutorial Leave a Comment

In the final part of the Blazor Server in .NET 6 blog series, we covered how to use data binding and dropdowns with lists and enums. This included a short introduction to setting up an HttpService, making a get call to the API, and viewing the results as a string. For further clarity, I also included a demonstration on how to add an HttpService that uses the built-in .NET HttpClient class to make calls to the D&D 5e API!

Finally, I presented a way to add a dropdown with the available race options that our character can choose from. That concludes my five-part educational series on Blazor Server in .NET 6. I hope you enjoyed it, and learned a little something you can take with you. Thanks for tuning in!