It has been a bit quiet that last couple of months, because I was busy finishing up with the danish patent and trademark office, where we finally went live with a new case management system. It has been a very long process for the organisation, so it was a big milestone to get the new system along with all the smaller services for working with patents live.

Now I have moved on to my next adventure, where I will work as a tech lead for Trifork eHealth. So it is a new domain for me, but I look forward to learning more about the health industry. More...

As my last video recommendation from Build this time around I will recommend taking a look at Jeff Burtoft talking about PWA’s on Windows. To me it is one of those topics where I mostly end up picking parts that are suited for what I am building, without going into everything under the umbrella. In that way, this talk suits me very well, because Jeff dives into the fairly few essentials they believe are required for a web app to be considered progressive.

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Continuing through the most important talks at Build I have come to the .NET overview and roadmap talk with the two Scotts, Hanselman and Hunter. They had a good combination of things I heard was coming, but also completely new stuff. It was well known that they are working on SignalR for .NET core, and one of the first demoes was running a SignalR app via Azure, which was really cool, and makes using and scaling SignalR a lot easier.

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Along the same line as the TypeScript talk, Mads Thorgersen and Dustin Campbell did a great talk about the future of C#, opening with some statistics that show how loved and widely used the language really is. Even though I am very much in love with F#, I am also quite happy doing my work in C#, as I have been for 14 years, so it is nice to see innovation in the language continue, and especially that they keep on drawing inspiration from F#.

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So Build is well underway, and I finally got around to diving into some of the talks that are online. One of my early favorites is Anders Hejlsbergs talk on news in TypeScript.  Anders gives a good run through of the TypeScript typesystem, starting with the basics and covering why it is so different from other type systems, and in many ways ground breaking work even for a language designer like him. More...

I just came home from the 25th MVP Summit and as always it has been a blast. As I ended up tweeting, "tech by day and beer by night, what's not to like".

Sadly I am not allowed to write much about the tech, because it is still confidential, but it should be safe to say that things are continuing to move fast with ASP.NETCore, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code and of course Azure, which have been my main areas of interest.

Another year has flown by, and it has been quite a change of pace for me. With my daughter being born last year, I have had to prioritise more than ever. Not really a surprise, but when you are going into it you don’t really know what will be possible. Looking back it has definitely changed my every day life for the better, although I have had to cut down on some spare time activities.

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Recently I ran into a task that I had encountered less than a year ago with another client. In both cases the client was using Bootstrap CSS for their grid layout, but didn’t have much need for the Bootstrap JavaScript bits. After a while the need for type ahead functionality arose, so the first time around we agreed to include the Bootstrap JavaScript so we could use the Bootstrap Typeahead plugin.

However having to include jQuery, Bootstrap JavaScript and a plugin, which still required me to make some tweeks to work properly, didn’t sit well with me. So the second time around I opted to implement type ahead on my own. More...

I recently worked on a long running migration project, where we needed to ensure that some of the sql migration scripts were only called once per entity that was migrated, in a threadsafe manner. I looked to the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace, but none of the classes were really a good match. Basically what I needed was the ability to run a part of the migration that was identified by key, but ensure that it would only run once, although different parent strategies might try and run it.

I recently started a new project, based on my own medicine of not using a framework, but building a simple architecture, that can grow and change freely based on needs as they arise. It is coming along very nicely, and has allowed us to have a pretty clean architecture.

For this project we chose to base the solution on TypeScript, and use handlebars for views along with a few other small libraries. As a clientside build tool we wanted to use webpack, because it is fast, has a lot of plugins that we can use, and is well suited for working with css modules. More...