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To Get AWS API Stage Variables with a C# dotnet 6 minimal rest api

I am writing this because I could not find how to get the AWS Api Gateway stage variables of a dotnet 6 minimal rest api anywhere on the internet, so please see the below code snipett

August 26, 2022
Enable Http Transient Failure Retries with logging

To enable transient retries in dotnet core, put the following into the startup process. In this case, it went into a WorkerService, so the code is in the Program.cs file. The above code will try for 5 times using a backoff logic that adds some random time to it so that the backoff logic will…

June 8, 2022
Enable WSL2 to access Global Protect VPN Tunnel

To enable Ubuntu via WSL2 to access the Prisma Global Protect VPN Tunnel use the following commands from a Powershell command line with Admin Access: Be sure to check the names above by doing a ipconfig /all Also check this post to if the previous solution does not work. I did do some of the…

March 21, 2022
Dotnet packages I want to use in the future.

Cocona – For when I need easy parameter stuff for a console app. It makes console apps more like minimal api’s GraphQL or Odata or Json api ?? which should I use? Dotnet Test Containers – To Make Docker easier?? Not a dot net package, but an api testing tool – k6

February 18, 2022
Employers Please Change This

I recently changed jobs and the worst part has been the gap in Health Insurance. The insurance with my old job stopped on the last day of employment, and the insurance with the new job won’t start until the 1st of next month, so I have a gap in health insurance of about 1 month.…

April 5, 2021
Example Powershell/Windows Terminal Command setup

Here are some of the PowerShell / Windows terminal commands commands I have set up in my profile. Load fork into current folder. Change to a certain folder I have many of these set up to easily change to my project folders and this main one to go to the root location of all my…

March 15, 2021
Must have applications for software development 2021 Version

I wanted to update my list of must have software for development, mostly to remember what I am currently using. These are listed in no particular order: Visual Studio 2019 (Why don’t they call this VS 2021?) SQL Server Management Studio Jetbrains Resharper Ultimate– I currently don’t use this, but when I did it was…

March 15, 2021
Check table configurations in EF Core 3.1

To check the table configurations for EF Core 3.1, I did the following and it helped identify issues. It iterates all tables in the context and selects one row. If there is an exception, it will catch it and display some related information. It might be helpful to also capture the stack trace.

August 5, 2020
Open plan offices are a BAD idea

I am about to start a job that has an open office plan and I am really dreading this part of the job. Why do you say? 3 reasons: I have been spoiled by having a private office in my last job. It was one of the best experiences working that I have ever had.…

July 27, 2019
What to do when you have been ghosted by a recruiter

I have recently been ghosted by a recruiter from a local company and it is very frustrating. I am sure that I did not get the job, but it would be nice to have a simple answer and some feedback on why they didn’t select me. I feel like the following article blames the candidate,…

July 16, 2019

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