How to mint Salesforce CDP access token
Salesforce offers a super cool metadata-driven platform that businesses shape to their needs. Anything a user can do in the UI, a developer can also do via the API. This is great for you as …
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GMK NucBox TPM 2.0 Firmware Upgrade
GMK pleasantly surprised their customers recently when they released a firmware upgrade for the NucBox device making it compatible with Windows 11. I covered this device in my previous post, which didn’t have a TPM …
How to do Scrum right, 5-minute crash course
The agile development methodology is nothing new these days. Since its inception in the spring of 2000, it has proliferated through the industry like a wildfire through the dry brush. Every one of us has …
Coding in React.js – JavaScript, actions, state, and localization
React.js is a developer-friendly framework for building interactive web applications. It takes the rich and verbose world of DOM and JavaScript runtime available in the modern browsers and packages it in easy-to-understand rules. No wonder …
Protect the home network with your own PKI certification authority using OpenSSL
Most home computer networks are not secure. At best, wireless networks are protected with a password. However, once the computer joins the network, a moderately skilled hacker can sniff most of the traffic, with the …
How async tasks work in .NET
When I was writing my previous post Should I Task.Wait() or await Task? I was slowly coming to the realization that it builds on a layer of abstraction some of us are not familiar with. …
Should I Task.Wait() or await Task?
CLR offers an excellent construct for parallel programming – a task. Instead of dealing with threads, developers only have to break their code into small parallelizable units of work, and magic happens behind the scenes. …
How to free disk space in C:\Windows\Installer
The technique we will be covering in this post applies to all Windows devices however an inspiration for this post came from a low powered Windows device Surface RT. One day Windows told me it …
ARM vs Terraform
Infrastructure as code is a powerful concept. More and more companies are transitioning from imperative scripts to declarative models. If you are an IT guy or avid DevOps in one of those companies you might …
How to coordinate SQL database schema update with application
Nearly every application developer on planet Earth that has a web service and a database, has faced this problem. How to upgrade a database and an application that expects a specific database schema in such …