The Monsters Weekly - Episode 125 - Using SignalR in a Background Service

In today’s episode, Monster Dave expands on the Hosted Services example from Episode #123 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp-8mA8EiJg) by using SignalR to update clients in real time.

SignalR Core Docs - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/tutorials/signalr

The Monsters Weekly - Episode 124 - Dev Containers

DevContainers can be used in VS Code to make environments easily reproducible for multiple developers.

Azure Camp 2019

Simon is running the 2019 Azure camp for Calgary and this post is all about it.

The Monsters Weekly - Episode 122 - Playing with Pulumi

Let’s look at the interesting new Infrastructure as Code solution that is Pulumi for deploying a container to Azure Container Instances

Using NodaTime with Dapper

After my recent misadventures attempting to use Noda Time with Entity Framework Core, I decided to see what it would take to use Dapper in a the same scenario.

Using Noda Time with Entity Framework Core

Noda Time is a fantastic date/time library for .NET. I started using it recently and it really simplified the logic around handling dates. Unfortunately, I ran in to some problems with using Noda Time together with Entity Framework Core.

Optimistic Concurrency Tracking with Dapper and SQL Server

This is a part of a series of blog posts on data access with Dapper. In today's post, we explore optimistic checks to ensure 2 users can't accidentally overwrite each other's updates to a particular row of data.

Managing Database Transactions in Dapper

This is a part of a series of blog posts on data access with Dapper. In today's post, we explore a more complex write operation that requires us to manage a database transaction.

Basic Insert Update and Delete with Dapper

This is a part of a series of blog posts on data access with Dapper. In today's post, we explore how easy it is to perform basic Insert, Update and Delete operations.