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In my last post about the Daily Parker's new blog engine, I explained why I built this and what it's for. This post will give you an overview of the app's basic structure; that is, the physical building blocks that make the blog happen.

I've spent about four hours doing a shit ton of A-B tests and a lot of Internet searching to figure out why I kept getting a specific error. The app is a .NET Core 6 WebAssembly, and the app registration is set for "any organization," meaning anyone with a Microsoft ID (work, school, or XBox) can authenticate with the app. The error began when I added a client certificate. The relevant section appSettings.config file looks like this: { "AzureAD": { "Instance": "https://logon.microsoftonline.com"...

I've spent today alternately upgrading my code base for my real job to .NET 6.0, and preparing for the Apollo Chorus performances of Händel's Messiah on December 11th and 12th. Cassie, for her part, enjoys when I work from home, even if we haven't spent a lot of time outside today because (a) I've had a lot to do and (b) it rained from 11am to just about now. So, as I wait for the .NET 6 update to build and deploy on our dev/test CI/CD instance (I think I set the new environments on our app services...

Yep, one of these posts. Alaska is having its warmest summer ever, and by a lot. Ronald Reagan had not-nice things to say about Africans in a phone call to Richard Nixon. Chicago's new LED street lights could increase the incidence of mosquito-borne illnesses. (Which, by the way, have ended civilizations.) You can run Ruby on Rails natively in the next update to Windows 10. Broadway producer Hal Prince has died at 91. Back to coding...

If only it weren't another beautiful early-summer day in Chicago, I might spend some time indoors reading these articles: On the 40th anniversary of the Flight 191 disaster in Chicago, Ask the Pilot draws comparisons between the troubles of the DC-10 and the 737-MAX. Does ride-sharing increase traffic congestion? Uh, yeah. Duh. Yesterday was the Chicago El's 127th birthday. Scott Hanselman remarks on "clever little C# features" that make him happy. A 68-year old survey, the Public Policy Mood estimate...

Just an historical note: as of today, I've been working with Microsoft .NET for 17 years. The first time I picked it up was 10 September 2001, which, if you think about it, is a very easy date to remember.

I've finally gotten around to extending the historical weather feature in Weather Now. Now, you can get any archival report that the system has, back to 2013. (I have many more archival reports from before then but they're not online.) For example, here's the last time I arrived in London, or the time I took an amazing photo in Hermosa Beach, Calif. I don't know why it took me so long to code this feature. It only took about 4 hours, including testing. And it also led me to fix a bug that has been in...

It's been a busy news day: The Post's Robert Kagan says everything will not be all right. Andrew Sullivan asks, "did Trump just stop Brexit?" TPM has a rundown on Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross's chicanery. A state board in Michigan controls, to some extent, the water levels in Lakes Michigan and Huron. There was also an article on tuple equality in C# 7.3 that, while interesting to me, probably isn't interesting to many other people.

A little Tuesday morning randomness for you: Millions of people who voted for President Trump have discovered that his policies are horrible for them. As only one example, MSNBC looks at the devastation immigration changes have caused to the crab industry in Hoopers Island, Md. Microsoft's Raymond Chen explains why the technology for compressing Windows folders hasn't changed since 2000. An artist has put up a Divvy-style "Chicago Gun Share Program" exhibit in Daley Plaza. (I'll try to get a photo this...

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, The Daily Parker will participate in this year's Blogging A-to-Z Challenge. Today's the official Theme Reveal day. My topic will be: Programming Concepts using Microsoft C# .NET. My topics will include: Compilers vs Interpreters Generics Human factors (and errors) LINQ Polymorphism ...and will finish with a real-world practical example on April 30th. I will also keep up my annoying political and Parker posts through April. And, full disclosure, many of the 26 A-to-Z...

Via Bruce Schneier, a British reporter requested her data dossier from Tinder. As with so many other things in life, she was shocked, but not surprised: The dating app has 800 pages of information on me, and probably on you too if you are also one of its 50 million users. In March I asked Tinder to grant me access to my personal data. Every European citizen is allowed to do so under EU data protection law, yet very few actually do, according to Tinder. With the help of privacy activist Paul-Olivier...

(This is a cross-post with my employer's blog.) I'm the newest team member at DevMynd, and so far, the only one with a Windows PC. Since we do most of our work in Ruby on Rails, and since everyone else has Macs, this presents a challenge. If I wanted to do this the easy way, I'd simply run Rails on Windows natively. But I decided instead to do it the hard way and use Linux and BASH. First, I had a couple of free days to get up to speed last week giving me some time to experiment. Second, I figured that...