Software Engineer @ 4Dotnet

Blogging about Azure, .NET, Git and architecture.
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Productivity Guilt

Have you ever felt guilty for not being productive? I have. Let’s talk about it.

April 26, 2024 · (updated May 3, 2024) · 3 min · 578 words · Mart de Graaf
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Angular Relative Navigation

Learn how to navigate to a route relative to the current route in Angular. This is useful when you have a wizard-like flow in your application.

April 25, 2024 · (updated May 3, 2024) · 2 min · 298 words · Mart de Graaf
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Migrating Classic Azure DevOps Releases to YAML Pipelines

Migrate your classic releases to YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps with our comprehensive guide. Streamline your deployment process today!

April 17, 2024 · (updated May 2, 2024) · 4 min · 843 words · Mart de Graaf
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Foreach repository push files and create a pull request

Automate repetitive tasks using code, even when it is in code.

April 17, 2024 · (updated May 2, 2024) · 3 min · 625 words · Mart de Graaf
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Getting started with Azure OpenAI

AI is happening. How can you make sure your organization benefits from AI?

October 26, 2023 · 12 min · 2345 words · Mart de Graaf
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Learn how to verify the biggest costs of your Log Analytics workspace

Many companies have a huge money bill for application logging. In this blog post, I will show you how to get in control of your Application Insights costs.

September 4, 2023 · 5 min · 895 words · Mart de Graaf
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Golden Tips To Leave Companies Without A Nasty Smell

Leave no technical debt, clean up after yourself when leaving a company. The first impression is just as important as the last impression.

August 10, 2023 · (updated May 2, 2024) · 7 min · 1341 words · Mart de Graaf
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Efficiently use Outlook Rules to Delete Azure DevOps Email Clutter

Are you also annoyed by the number of emails generated by Azure DevOps? Learn how I fixed email overdose using an Outlook rule.

June 1, 2023 · (updated May 2, 2024) · 2 min · 382 words · Mart de Graaf
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Efficiently Git Clone All Repositories from Azure DevOps using PowerShell: A Step-by-Step Guide

Learn how to efficiently clone all Git repos in Azure DevOps with our comprehensive consulting guide. Streamline your development workflow today!

May 15, 2023 · (updated May 2, 2024) · 6 min · 1240 words · Mart de Graaf
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Replacing Your Projects and Namespaces Using Bire

We all sometimes want to rename projects and or namespaces but VS makes it hard, why can’t we just take one command to replace all? We can with bire.

January 26, 2023 · (updated January 27, 2023) · 3 min · 435 words · Mart de Graaf
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Beat your excuses and start blogging

How to start with your blog. The main focus should be content, starting and moving forward.

November 21, 2022 · (updated November 25, 2022) · 4 min · 754 words · Mart de Graaf
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Eat that frog! - Book review by a developer

This year I read and listened to ‘Eat that frog!’ by Brian Tracy. I tried to apply these principles to my daily life. 💡 This article will be updated when I find new takeaways. Summary Eat that frog is a practical book on how to “get more of the important things done today”. It focuses on doing key tasks first and procrastinating the unimportant tasks. The author gives 21 principles for getting more things done faster:...

November 21, 2022 · 5 min · Mart de Graaf