Have you ever wanted to do something within the context of Microsoft products and wondered how can I do it via APIs or programmatically? I have been in far too many situations where performing a simple task like forwarding multiple calendar events to my colleague which can’t be done via the Outlook UI has bothered me, hence leveraging the power of Microsoft Graph APIs heavily in even in my day to day tasks.
Apr 18, 2024
4 minSo, I’ve decided to write again and since I haven’t had time for quite a while, my blog was still using Gatsby v2. At first it didn’t seem like a big change, but little did I know what was I getting myself into.
Apr 13, 20242 minI’ve contributed to the development community in many ways, be it speaking at conferences, writing technical blog posts, getting involved in conferences as volunteer or part of the crew, or helping with Hackatons and Open Hacks. However, writing a book has been in my todo list for quite a while, and honestly, I’ve been afraid to start due to various reasons, mainly because I heard how much time and energy you need to put into it.
Regardless, I set it as a goal in 2021 and after a few months working on it, voila, it’s now listed on Amazon to be published early next year. I am so excited about it and thought to share my experience and how I reached this milestone.
Dec 02, 20215 minLast year I backed up the Crowbits project on Kickstarter because I saw a potential for kids to learn so much by assembling these kits especially that it could be integrated with lego’s.
At the moment you can purchase the kits from the Elecrow’s website. And just worth mentioning that this post is not sponsored, nor do I have any association with the team or any money from sharing these links is in play.
Jul 19, 20211 minApplication registration, service principal, system-assigned managed identity, user-assigned managed identity, Enterprise Application, these are just a few concepts in Microsoft Identity Platform which helps businesses protect their applications and provide authentication and authorization using Azure Active Directory (aka AAD).
There are many scenarios which can be covered using these concepts and although Microsoft has a ton of documentation around these, people get confused simply because of sheer amount of information to digest. So the point of these series is to get people to understand these concepts and apply them in their products developed on top of Azure AD without having to get information overload. In this post we will cover the basics.
Jul 02, 20214 minIf you have deployed a resource in Microsoft Azure as part of your CI/CD pipeline you have probably worked with ARM templates. These templates can be used to automate your resource deployment to Azure and help you to have consistent environments whether it’s for testing, development or production purposes. However, there are some shortcomings when it comes to complex environments especially when you have many resources and the dependency between them makes the templates to be either super busy, very complex, or unreadable.
For that Microsoft has introduced Bicep which is designed to overcome these issues and help you with your infrastructure as code setup.
May 10, 20218 minAzure Functions is one of the the serverless services in Azure which allows you to run your business logic without worrying about where it’s running and how it scales. But it being serverless is not the highlight of this amazing service, the way it’s designed which allows you to leverage a very diverse set of triggers and input/output bindings without writing much code is to me the best of the best. So in this article I’ve decided to take you on a journey with a few of the common triggers and bindings and show you how to set them up quickly and without writing any unnecessary code.
Mar 29, 20216 minPlaywright is one of the recently released end to end testing frameworks which enables fast, reliable and capable automation and is cross platform. I really like it, but since it’s very easy to setup and the community around it is super cool, I like it even more.
In this article I want to show you how you can write some tests for any Vue.js application which is using Auth0 as an identity provider. However, this could be used with any other provider too, since it covers the basics and makes you ready to write tests which cover different scenarios and user interactions.
Feb 07, 20218 minAzure Cosmos DB is one of the foundational services in Azure, which provides high availability, global scale and an impressive performance. However, it could be a bit costly for developers to spin up an instance during their development especially if they don’t know some of the basics such as what should be the partition key, what throughput they should select and so on that much.
The Azure Cosmos DB Emulator is a service provided by Microsoft which allows you to emulate the Cosmos DB Service locally for development purposes. In addition, no matter whether you’re using Azure CosmosDB or not, at some point you might have to test some sort of DocumentDB locally.
Dec 15, 20203 minIf you have ever tried to add responsiveness to your web application you would know it’s difficult or at least takes a while to get it right. As progressive web apps (PWAs) are the first class citizens on many devices with the ability to get installed, it’s even more important to make sure user’s have the best experience possible. But technology advances in a much faster pace. We have now foldable devices like the shiny new Microsoft Surface Duo which add more complexity to this equation.
Dec 07, 20208 min
