Nick Proud, Author at Automation Mission

Hot Reload in Server-Side Blazor

July 23, 2020 By Nick Proud

At the time of writing this post, without third-party plug-ins, server-side Blazor doesn’t have native support for hot-reload. I was kind of spoiled with this […]

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.NET C# How-To

Restricting Access To MVC Views

July 14, 2020 By Nick Proud

There are so many different mechanisms for authentication and for claims verification in .NET for MVC applications with ASP.NET Identity, JSON Web Tokens, and Azure […]

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Data How-To RPA

‘SQLizing’ Excel Spreadsheets with ThinkAutomation.

June 26, 2020 By Nick Proud

I Have the Power! (To Query) In a business-administrative context, we often refer to spreadsheets as databases. It could be a database of customers or […]

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Career Industry Soft Skills

Writing code for an audience

June 18, 2020 By Nick Proud

It seems like the most unnatural thing for many programmers; this notion of ‘live coding.’ The very idea that we would choose to opt-in to […]

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AI

How to extract text inside an image without writing any code.

March 2, 2020 By Nick Proud

In the modern-day battle to transfer our information from paper to the digital realm, OCR (Optical Character Recognition) has become essential to the smooth running […]

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.NET C# How-To

Clean up your .NET with the Dispose Pattern

February 15, 2020 By Nick Proud

In the managed-code world of .NET, we can be sometimes spoiled by the seamless intervention of Garbage Collection which quite happily waits until our objects […]

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.NET C# Industry Product UX

Tracking Customer Usage in Your Software – Getting Started

February 7, 2020 By Nick Proud

You’re thinking of changing a feature or adding a new one to your app, but you don’t know how important it is to implement it. […]

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Devops Industry Soft Skills

Continuous Integration Should NEVER be rushed

November 24, 2019 By Nick Proud

Continuous integration is a wonderful thing. The historical process of moving code around from person to person in various different version control systems before running […]

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C IoT Networking

How to Make an IoT Network-Uptime Alarm

August 17, 2019 By Nick Proud

For those of who manage multiple network-attached devices, website or servers, it’s important to know when they are down as soon as possible. Whether you […]

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.NET C# Industry

The New Golden Age of .NET is Upon Us.

July 31, 2019 By Nick Proud

One framework to rule them all. Is it a good thing? Is it dangerous, or is it the best thing to happen to Software Developers […]

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