When you think about Datadog, you are very often thinking about charts. Which visualisations will bring forth insights from your metrics. What actionable information can you present on your wallboards. What you might not be thinking about is the humble subject of Datadog notes. You can add notes to your dashboard using the Edit Dashboard […]
If you attempt to create a user in SQL Server and get the following error: You can only create a user with a password in a contained database You probably didn’t quite configure your database as you intended. You can use the script below to fix it up (substitute DatabaseNameHere with your actual database name. […]
If you are working on an older application that has a lot of logic inside of the SQL database in jobs, procedures, and functions – you may find that your job schedules cause a repeating wave of SQL compilation peaks. If you suspect jobs may be the cause, you can use a query to find […]
This is a little gold nugget that is coming in C# 8 – implicitly scoped using statements. On a simple level, it means that when you consume an IDisposable class your previously explicitly scoped using statements: using (var connection = GetConnection()) { // Use the connection, it will be disposed of at the end } […]
IntelliCode brings AI-assisted power-ups to your auto-completion. It has been in preview within Visual Studio for some time (you can read about Visual Studio IntelliCode here) – but it has now landed in Visual Studio Code, which is exceptionally handy if you’re a TypeScript programmer like me. So what is IntelliCode? It’s a simple VSCode […]
It is pretty common to want to hydrate a class from a JSON value obtained in a service. If you just parse the JSON you get the properties, but not the behaviours that you expect. As this is a reasonably common problem to solve, it is worthing doing it just once. The following function will […]
I have been working out how to create a TypeScript NotFunction type for a while, in response to a Stack Overflow question. With the arrival of conditional types, I think there may be a way. It’s not perfect – but it does work. The type works by taking all possible types and converting the type […]
The C# 8.0 announcement included a note on default implementations of interface members. If you’ve been programming for long enough, this might make you a little nervous at first thanks to the hangovers of multiple inheritance. Before you chuck out this idea, though, let’s look at it from a different perspective. I’m going to talk […]
Here is a quick disambiguation between Traits vs Mixins for programmers. Mixins are now fairly well known. You can use mixins to add shared methods to your classes without inheriting from the class they live in. It’s an increasingly popular technique for sharing and extending code. Instead of inheriting from a single parent, you can […]
There is an emerging theme of videos and articles aimed at millennials, telling them that they need to stay in jobs longer and learn “grit and perseverance”. This is the modern equivalent of the patronising change management book “Who Moved My Cheese”, which is handed out by lazy managers when they are performing radom acts […]