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AZ-202 (AZ-203?) passed: Microsoft Azure Developer Certification Transition

Feb 9, 2019

A while back I posted about passing the 70-777 Cosmos DB beta exam. Last year I also received voucers to try the new role-based Azure certification exams. Since I have already passed the original 70-532 for developers, I decided to take on the new AZ-202 transition beta exam. Well I

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Awesome Northwind

Akos Nagy

Feb 5, 2019

Whenever I give a talk at a meetup or teach at a course or just want to try a demo about a data driven technology, my biggest problem (and the biggest nag) is always to get some real(istic) sample data. Thankfully there are sample databases available on the internet

Updating the LinqPad CosmosDB datacontext driver - again

Akos Nagy

Feb 3, 2019

A while back I have received an issue in the Github repo of my LinqPad CosmosDB datacontext driver. After fixing that issue, the same individual also suggested a new feature. After fixing the bug, I have decided to take on this small enchancement. And now you can go ahead and

Updating the LinqPad CosmosDB datacontext driver

Akos Nagy

Jan 16, 2019

A while back I've created a data context driver for LinqPad so you can connect to your Azure CosmosDB databases as well. I'm very happy to see that it has caught on and a lot of you have at least downloaded it (and hopfully you are

Repository and unit of work ARE useful

Akos Nagy

Nov 20, 2018

The repository and unit of work design patterns are useful. This is a statement that I can get behind in any debate when this topic comes up. Don't worry, I'm not dogmatic, I have a couple of really good arguments (IMHO) as to why. But I&

Software design

Memento design pattern done (almost) right

Akos Nagy

Nov 13, 2018

I regularly teach courses on basic object-oriented design patterns. Over the years I have come to realize that not every pattern is equally useful or equally well-thought out. One of the most common examples of patterns that have become more like anti-patterns over the years is the Singleton pattern. But

Next level serverless apps with Azure Blobs

Akos Nagy

Nov 6, 2018

I've always been a huge advocate for (and fan of :) ) serverless apps. People often misjudge the concept: serverless doesn't mean that there is no server. I mean, what else would serve requests for the relatively primitive client side? There is a server. Maybe there is even

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Stackoverflow adventures: Creating custom Ghost helpers using apps

Akos Nagy

Oct 31, 2018

If you follow my blog, you might have read my previous posts about creating Handlebars helpers and adding it to Ghost to extend the platform's functionality. Those features were quite heavy-weight and the only way I could make it work was to dig deep into Ghost and integrate

MS 70-777: Implementing Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Solutions Beta passed

Akos Nagy

Oct 27, 2018

A while back I received a voucher code that I could use to try the new – and then still beta – exam 70-777: Implementing Azure Cosmos DB Solutions. Since I do use Cosmos DB quite often (you can read my other Cosmos DB posts here, or check out the LinqPad Cosmos

Azure CosmosDb

Creating a most popular posts page with a custom ghost helper to download Google Analytics data

Akos Nagy

Oct 15, 2018

TL;DR I have created a custom Handlebars helper for Ghost to download the most viewed posts from Google Analytics. If you are only interested in using the helper, check out the Github repo and its wiki. The blog post below goes into a bit more detail on my motivation

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