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Porting Cron Expression Descriptor to .NET Core
Last year, an issue was opened on my cron-expression-descriptor project asking about support for .NET Core. It took me a year to finally get it done (mostly because of laziness) and I would like to share the process of porting it.
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Testing class-style Vue.js components with Mocha and TypeScript
While working on my Koa / Vue.js SPA Template, I had a bit of trouble testing my class-style Vue.js components with Mocha. I eventually figured it out but there were quite a few moving pieces and it felt messy. So, I worked to simplify the process and eventually came up with a pattern I am quite happy with. I extracted the...
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Koa / Vue.js SPA Template
A few months back, I tackled building an ASP.NET Core / React SPA template. Then, wanting to play with Vue.js, I created another template with the same ASP.NET Core backend but switched out the frontend with Vue.js. Those templates were fun to build and I learned quite a few things along the way.
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Updates to my ASP.NET Core / React SPA Template
A few months back, I threw together an ASP.NET Core / React SPA template (and blogged about it here) in the process of learning both ASP.NET Core and React. The initial plan was to just come up with something simple enough to learn some things and then move along. Although the final result was a simple “Hello World” page, ther...
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Running Heroku CLI from Heroku Scheduler
The Heroku Scheduler is a simple and handy add-on for any Heroku application, to run recurring commands. I recently had the need to run a Heroku CLI command from within the Scheduler itself. Why would you need to do such a thing? In my case, at YNAB, we have an app pipeline which includes a staging app for our marketing site. We don’t want this staging app running all the time for various reasons, i...
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