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Unlocking Angular Potential: Provide Root Services That Listen to Routing Events

Lets create a global singleton that listens to router events in Angular. Is it a good idea? Let’s find out.

December 12, 2024 · (updated December 14, 2024) · 5 min · 1050 words · Mart de Graaf
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Bicep Template Spec Latest

When using template specs in your organization you should think about how you want to handle the versioning of these template specs. Read it in this blog post.

December 2, 2024 · (updated December 3, 2024) · 4 min · 645 words · Mart de Graaf
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Make Github Copilot a Habit

Now with the capabilities of AI, we code on steroids. Let’s make it a habit to use it the right way.

September 30, 2024 · (updated October 30, 2024) · 3 min · 558 words · Mart de Graaf
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Marts Cheatsheet

Get the most out of tooling using Mart’s cheatsheet.

September 30, 2024 · (updated December 12, 2024) · 2 min · 391 words · Mart de Graaf
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Apply Ip Restrictions Application Firewall

In this blog post, I’ll show you how to restrict access by IP addresses and domain names to your backend services using a Web Application Firewall (WAF) policy. We’ll create a Bicep file, where I’ll introduce the first custom type that I have deployed to production!

May 21, 2024 · (updated May 24, 2024) · 6 min · 1139 words · Mart de Graaf
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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 12, 2024) · 3 min · 633 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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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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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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Duplicate Logging Azure Application Insights

Save troubles and money fixing duplicate logging in your Azure Application Insights, and Log Analytics Workspace.

November 4, 2022 · (updated June 12, 2024) · 4 min · 704 words · Mart de Graaf
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Add project properties for consuming apps to a NuGet package

This article explains how to add consuming project properties to a NuGet package. Those project properties will be used in the consuming apps.

October 19, 2022 · (updated November 25, 2022) · 2 min · 223 words · Mart de Graaf