As I’ve worked with JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node backends over the last year, there was always a point in the project when I wonder “This would be way better in C# and .NET 6”. When proposed to various teams, the...
In the past, when I’ve needed a user-defined rules engine in .NET, I’ve explored writing a custom domain specific language using the Irony language implementation kit. But mostly, I’ve used SpringFramework.NET which includes an awesome expression evaluation engine. The expression...
According to Wikipedia, .NET will be celebrating it’s 21st birthday this year on February 14, 2022. It’s been around for so long that I think many myths and misunderstandings about .NET from the early days persist. In celebration of .NET...
If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I have a thing for browser and test automation. Previously, I’ve spent quite a bit of time with both LeapWork and Taiko+Gauge from Thoughtworks. (One of my favorite pieces...
If you’re trying to simulate drag and drop of files in Playwright for testing, you’ll need to use page.dispatchEvent to accomplish this. There is a short note on how to do this in the docs:
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// Note you can only create DataTransfer in Chromium and Firefox const dataTransfer = await page.evaluateHandle(() => new DataTransfer()); await page.dispatchEvent('#source', 'dragstart', { dataTransfer }); |
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It’s the year 2022. You’re building a new web API from the ground up. Which approach should you pick for building your API? gRPC? GraphQL? REST? Some would make the case that it’s time to put REST…out to rest, but...
As a software engineer, I am a self-described minimalist. My goal is generally to seek the simplest possible technology and architectural solution with the least amount of moving parts to build, maintain, and extend. Often times, this manifests as solutions...
It has been interesting as I’ve shifted out of .NET ecosystem which I’ve worked with on the server side (and some stints of desktop client/tooling work) since the beta versions just before the first release. In the era before ASP.NET,...
Previously, we’ve deployed our Dapr Hello World project to both AWS and Azure. This time, we’re going to deploy to Google GKE. Step 1: Get Google Cloud Set up Start by following the instructions here to get your Google Cloud...
If you missed it, this was my Azure serverless conference session available on Channel9!