Year: 2020

Happy 2020! I can’t think of a better way to welcome in the new decade than taking control of your technical and personal life through hard data. https://gideonwolfe.com/posts/sysadmin/tig/advanced/

Newton’s third law of motion states that, for every force, there is an equal but opposite force. It’s easily understood by sitting in a chair. Gravity pulls you down, but the chair pushes you up. If gravity were weak, sitting on the chair might bounce you up like a beach ball. https://www.investopedia.com/stock-sellers-are-finally-showing-up-5069955

I have been experimenting with Azure in my spare time, trying to better understand this cloud service and how I can use it for data projects. My employer is considering building some applications here, so I want to be prepared. https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/creating-a-serverless-database-in-azure

Plugins and integrations are a big part of what makes WordPress such a powerful system. Getting plugins to work together smoothly isn’t always possible, though. AutomatorWP aims to solve that problem, using a simple ‘trigger’ and ‘action’ system that lets you automate WordPress tasks. https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/wordpress/automate-wordpress

What’s wrong with this picture? Look at the names: Datasets like this seem to work perfectly well and are often built by professional BI developers but these names are a mess – and this can cause a lot of problems later on. https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2020/06/28/naming-tables-columns-and-measures-in-power-bi/

If the Skills section on your Resume states Python, R, SQL, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and you’re wondering why you get REJECTED every time, you should keep reading. There are millions seeking a job in Data Science and the opportunities are limited. https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-build-an-effective-data-science-portfolio-56d19b885aa8

If you are a web developer who is constantly searching for tutorials on YouTube, you’ve definitely come across Traversy Media, Dev Ed, The Net Ninja and some other cool instructors creating awesome content for web developers. However, there are a few more you probably didn’t know about. https://dev.to/ryandsouza13/10-web-development-youtube-channels-you-probably-didn-t-know-about-4o37

On This Page… No silly gimmicks. This collection of home automation ideas will actually make your home more enjoyable for you and your guests. https://www.technicallywizardry.com/100-home-automation-ideas-tutorials/

I was helping a client this past week to calculate the total business hours between a start date/time and an end date/time, taking into account the working days, public holidays and non-working weekends, etc. https://exceleratorbi.com.au/calculating-business-hours-using-dax/

In this post, we will see how to create JWT authentication in ASP.NET Core Web API application. We will store the user credentials in SQL server database. We will use Entity framework code first approach to perform database operations. https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/authentication-and-authorization-in-asp-net-core-web-api-with-json-web-tokens/