CosmosDb components are a pain to test. There's almost a 1/2 dozen objects to fake and configure to be able to get back the object you want to then do work on for the test. This can be abstracted from the test and hide the complexity in…
It's been a month... SIGH oh well. I'm bad at this. What have I been doing? Lots of ... stuff? OK; not much. Let's check my MtgDiscovery.com git history and see if anything interesting is going on there... Nope. Not a lot. Probably would…
Last post I mentioned about swapping the DB for some data. Well... I've done it. Mostly done it. I've got code written for it. I still need to get the IaC set up for the DB and connection strings... blah blah... I got the code ... some…
I have to rework a huge piece of my site (MtgDiscover.com) for collecting magic cards. Specifically, the cosmos document for my collection got to big. So I need to switch to Azure SQL. I have 4 queries that run against my collection document. They are very basic. Any additional…
Abstracting the OS - The pain felt of not listening to my own practices. I'm trying to shift my website to run on a linux app service plan instead of windows. It'll save me $40+ per month, so... worth it. That's 4 extra boxes…
Working on my Magic: The Gathering site (mtgdiscovery.com) I have to tweak it to hand a new(er) style of foil on the card; "Etched". The data feed I've been using has it different than foil or non-foil. SO... That was fun. Note: I'…
My latest focus at work has been performance related issues. Not my performance, I'm awesome. I have a shirt that says so. Code performance. Sheesh. The team I'm on owns the eventing system that other teams use. I'd recognized and have finally gotten addressed…
A huge fucking question. I know I normally focus on OO stuff... and I wish I had more OO crap to ponder... but there's nothing really sticking in head recently... soo... other shit. I want to try and go weekly... I'm gonna slip to monthly though.…
