How I increased my WordPress site’s performance from 31 to 92 in less than 2 hours

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I admit it; I am completely new to SEO and web page optimization. SEO and SEM (Search Engine Marketing) are valuable skills for every (wannabe) solopreneur/enterpreneur. As an engineer, I tend only to build and… keep building. The problem is that building a product is nice but not enough if no one knows about it. This is where SEO comes into play.

Atomic Habits - Summary and Notes

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I read a lot of self-help books. In order to make the most of them and possibly apply some of their recommendations/guidance, you have to take some notes for future reference. Starting from this book, I will do that in public in case these notes prove useful for someone else as well.

How to clone an sql database on the same server

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Although this should be straight forward, it took me some time to find an easy way to do it. Finally found it on Stack Overflow, therefore, I am documenting it here for (my) future reference.

Building a mobile app for the COVID-19 lockdown using Flutter

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This post is about a mobile app I developed called 13033 using Google's Flutter for simplifying the process of registering your movement when leaving your house during the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece.

How to migrate a local MongoDB database to the cloud for free

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Migrating a local MongoDB database to the cloud for free

Centralized & Structured .NET Logging with Serilog & Seq Part 2

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2nd part of presenting two open-source tools that can help you introduce a centralized and structured logging mechanism in your .NET application really quickly

Centralized & Structured .NET Logging with Serilog & Seq Part 1

.NET serilog seq logging monitoring

1st part of presenting two open-source tools that can help you introduce a centralized and structured logging mechanism in your .NET application really quickly

Book Review - Don't make me think

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An easy-to-read book with a wide target audience covering the core aspects of web usability, describing the complete process of usability testing and providing stimulation for further reading.

Soft skills matter

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Normal people go out, normal people meet new people.
I am (trying to be) normal too, so I go out and meet new people read more...

Binding an ItemsSource to an Enum

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This rather quick post is about enabling an Enum to be set as the ItemsSource of a ComboBox, ListBox etc. You read more...

MVVM Command disabling scope for asynchronous operations

MVVM C# WPF async Command

Introduction

One of the must-have features of all modern applications is constant UI responsiveness. The user interface should never freeze and stay responsive no read more...

An animated WPF flowchart

WPF XAML flowchart animation

Introduction

There was recently a need to create an animated flowchart in order to depict the transition between the states of a workflow. This read more...

The WPF talk on dotnetConf 2015

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Summary of main points about WPF, as presented during the last dotnetConf.

The joy of revisiting old code

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What happens to you when you look at old code of yours? When I say old, I do not mean code you wrote last week. read more...

A Pageable and Sortable WPF DataGrid

WPF DataGrid Tutorial Paging Sorting

Introduction

There was recently a need for a WPF DataGrid paging and sorting functionality in a project I am currently working on. The goal read more...

Trying out a different approach

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The Occasion

About a month ago, I stumbled across an ad about an event that would take place in Hamburg at the end of read more...

Rewriting history with Git

Git Version Control Productivity Rebase Merge Squash

How many times have you wished you could…

• Change or add something in the code you just committed?
• Merge small commits in your project read more...

Keeping a consistent coding style with StyleCop

StyleCop CodingStyle VisualStudio

A post about the use of StyleCop to ensure that your coding style remains consistent.

Web Api OData Endpoint for multiple databases with the same schema

OData Web Api EntityFramework Unity Tutorial

This post describes the development of an Web Api OData Endpoint for multiple databases that share the same schema.