When building a web application, designers and developers have many choices. The URL structure of a web application seems to be an often overlooked and underappreciated detail. In my view, if an application adopts semantic URLs, it enables some user behaviors which lead to product value and increased/extended adoption. But what exactly is a Semantic URL?
A friend of mine needed some legacy code, written in VB6, ported to work in C# (.NET 6 / Core). This code used several Visual Basic functions that have equivalents in C#, but those versions didn’t yield the same output given the same input. Using the Microsoft.VisualBasic package got the code closer to working, but still wasn’t 100% what was needed. It turns out that package is used for porting VB.Net code, not legacy VB6 or earlier code.
Some methods had fairly close equivalents in C#, others were way off the mark due to string encoding differences.
A lot of searching and unit testing later, I came up with this class of functions that allowed the legacy code to be ported with fairly minimal changes. My goal was to copy + paste VB6 code and make as few a changes as possible. Here are the methods covered:
/ operator so output is the same as Visual Basic 6 would have produced)In a previous post, I wrote about how I moved this blog to Hugo. Since then, I’ve been receiving notifications from GitHub’s Dependabot about dependencies needing to be addressed… in the Gemfile and Gemfile.lock. These are two files that don’t exist in the repo or any branches.
I got tired of the emails and large yellow banner at the top of the repo. Time to hunt for a fix.
These are my notes while configuring Kubuntu 21.10 to my liking after first install. Mainly for my own future reference on other distribution installs.
Interested in getting started with Node.js and TypeScript? Let’s jump right in.
This post will contain whatever handy information I come across for utilizing the SharePoint REST APIs with Microsoft Flow.
Next in this series on the SharePoint Framework are extensions. According to docs.microsoft.com, SPFx Extensions allow for the customization of multiple facets of the SharePoint experience. I’ll focus on differences I made while following the online tutorial and my observations on capabilities and impacts of SPFx Application Customizer extensions.
So, you have multiple projects and one or more of them have dependencies (or just plain don’t work) on certain versions of node? What to do? Node Version Manager (NVM) allows you to install and switch between them “with ease” (quotes added as I’m writing this blog post as I get it installed for the first time myself… lets see just how easy it is!).
Today I decided that it was time I learned how to build SharePoint Framework (SPFx) webparts. Easy enough right? Find the right tutorial online, follow instrucitons, hello world! Let’s get started.