I grew up playing all the 90s games and I still love them. For quite a sometime I am now using VirtuaNES emulator to do retro gaming on my Windows machine. There are other NES emulators out there but this is the one I have been using now for a while and it has been good so far. To setup VirtuaNES emulator on Windows, download it from here and here ..read more

Terraform is my go-to IAC tool for building my infrastructure in Azure. I usually use Azure DevOps pipeline to execute my terraform plan, but it would be nice to know if I can execute it programmatically or on request basis. Even on request basis you can trigger a CI/CD pipeline to provision the infrastructure but maybe it is too much for a simple project to have. One of the biggest pain points has been the authentication in command line tooling ..read more

Docker Hub or GitHub Container Registry also known as ghcr.io is a go to platform for most of the OSS developers and teams to host their Docker images. These platforms are free for open-source software, but you might need to upgrade from the free plan to use a paid plan so that your docker image is only available for your infrastructure use and not for public use. Azure provides Container Registry service where you can host your Docker images with ease and use the same docker pull and run command to pull and run the container on your machine, or you can also use these images to create containe ..read more

If you have a static website, blog or a react application, here is how you can host them for cheap with Azure Blob Storage. This article focuses on how you can configure Azure Blob Storage to host your static website or react application. Starting with create-react-app Creating a react application is simple with create-react-app and then build the optimized output of the application by running npm run build command. This will publish the optimized version of the react app in the build folder ..read more

Adding or sharing a link with a snapshot of a web page is a very useful feature in Microsoft Teams or in Zoom chat. This gives a user a way to quickly look at the web page snapshot and a small description about the link. Go has an amazing library called chromedp which allows you to perform some amazing tasks like taking screenshot, fill out a form and submit it, send key events, device emulation, script evaluation etc ..read more

In the past decade Marvel has gathered a lot of fan following which eventually lead all the fans to know more about how the Marvel comics universe characters, stories, events are mapped or linked to each other. In 2017 (if I am remembering it correctly), at Microsoft Build event, Microsoft announces Bot framework and did a demo with CosmosDB graph database which uses Gremlin query from Apache TinkerPop. It was a great demo and I was really impressed how they did it but unfortunately I was unable to find the source code for that demo anywhere ..read more

If you are using Google chat on your browser you can see a notification pop-up when a new chat message arrives. I don’t use Google chat or GTalk a lot for communication so I am not very well versed about its over all functionality and coolness. But one thing that always got my attention in the past was the notification that I get on my desktop from Google. This is a very cool feature and my colleagues find it a very important feature of chat as it get their attention immediately ..read more

Awesome Stuff Windows 8.1 sample apps Postman – Chrome based REST client Modern.IE – Testing for IE Visual Studio 2013 for Web developers – Build Webcast – Mads Kristensen Lotaris – A new way to monetize your Windows 8 apps Entensionmethods.net – A site dedicate to Extension Methods cURL for Windows Web Development TypeScript EISK - Employee Info Starter Kit AngularJS and TypeScript Adding Ninject to Web API 20 JavaScript Frameworks: MVVM Templating, Licenses etc One to one chat using ASP ..read more

There are many syntax highlighting plugins available on the web right now. Majority of the sites are using javascript based Syntax Highlighter from Alex Gorbatchev. I am using it for my current blog and BlogEngine.NET has it as a default syntax highlighter. It is good because it has a lot of themes to offer and you can also customize according to the look and feel of your blog or site ..read more

When I heard about Glimpse, I thought it like to be another MiniProfiler like stuff or a combination of MiniProfiler and this. But it seems to be more robust diagnostic tool for developers. Here is my experience with this awesome diagnostic tool. What is Glimpse? Glimpse is a diagnostic tool for ASP.NET applications which let you see detailed diagnostic information of your web application. Glimpse knows everything your server is doing and displays it straight away to you in your browser ..read more