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The new Angular template syntax
Shorter & Sweeter

Compared to other SPA frameworks, Angular really made it quite cumbersome to do simple things like an if/else to show/hide certain UI parts.

The new syntax is so much more succint, it gets rid of excess html tags, is easier to remember and it doesn’t need to be added to the imports array of a standalone component.

15 Dec 2024
tutorial angular

Testing Internal Methods
Testing internal methods of a class

Typically you want to write tests only for public methods. You want to avoid writing tests for private methods so that when you change the implementation, your tests remain green and you can do that ruthless refactoring without having to worry about introducing new bugs.

8 Dec 2024
testing

Can you reset my mac
Recover your mac without password

A friend got himself a second-hand iMac but couldn’t log in because he didn’t have the Apple Account credentials.

Me with computer science degree as Jessica Jones and relative looking at me to fix their computer as Killgrave meme

1 Dec 2024
tutorial

Database Auditing with EntityFramework and SQL Server
Keep track of what's happening

Keeping track of database changes in SQL Server with EntityFramework, let’s go over your options with sample implementations.

All code with some UnitTests can be found at the Github repository.

26 Oct 2024
tutorial sql

QA TechEvent: SQL Training
Gamification - our internal SQL competition

This month our QA TechEvent was “SQL Training”. Goal was to score most points by solving more and more complex SQL exercises against three datasets: countries of the world, teachers + departments (postgres) and the football worldcups (sql server).

Which country scored the most owngoals? Read on to find out!

Special SQL Skillset Taken meme

3 Oct 2024
sql product fun

Git Hooks with Husky v9
Avoid pushing changes that break the build with githooks and Husky.

typicode/husky : Git hooks made easy 🐶 woof!

8 Sep 2024
git

KISS and Decorators
Decorators: a powerful and often misused design pattern

I picked up a UserStory to make a small adjustment.

The story was simple enough as was the required change but… Looking at the code, how was it supposed to work? It looked like it just.. Shouldn’t…

Took some time but I found out, the behavior of the software was defined in the IOC registration, at startup, with Autofac.

3 Sep 2024
war-story

Frontend Track Setup
Setup your machine for the itenium Frontend Track

Q: How do you install Node?
A: Well, you don’t!

You install NVM (Node Version Manager) because every project uses a different versions and they are not always that compatible!

31 Aug 2024
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