PowerToys Run is a quick launcher for Windows. It is open-source and modular for additional plugins. Official plugins include: Calculator Unit Converter Value Generator Windows Search At the time of writing, there are 20 plugins out of the box. If you think the official plugins are not enough, you can write our own. The easiest way to get started is…
Henrik Lau Eriksson
https://conductofcode.io/ · 10 posts · history since 2017 · active
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26 Mar 2023
At my current client, Nordic Leisure Travel Group , we have a large number of web tests that automates some of the QA effort. The tests are written in Selenium and Playwright. They run on a schedule in Jenkins and we get reports on email. They take quite some time to run. Unfortunately some of the tests are a bit…
29 Dec 2019
About a year ago I was experimenting with local functions and reflection, to improve my unit tests and the way to write BDD specs. I had been using Machine.Specifications and Machine.Fakes for years. MSpec has served me well, but the lack of async support made me look for alternatives. The experiment with local functions in tests led to the release…
1 Nov 2018
I felt the need to create my own URL Shortener. I ended up with a template repository for making URL Shorteners with Jekyll and GitHub Pages. Introducing Jekyll URL Shortener - A template repository for making URL Shorteners with #Jekyll and #GitHubPageshttps://t.co/u9iutTiG2O@jekyllrb @github — Henrik Lau Eriksson (@hlaueriksson) November 1, 2018 The source code and documentation can be found here:…
31 Jul 2017
I was attending a conference six months ago and listened to a talk about quality. During the talk, I was introduced to EARS — Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax. This way of writing requirements struck a chord with me, given my prior experience reading and writing requirement specifications. When doing agile development, we write User Stories and define Acceptance Criteria.…
30 Jun 2017
Content for the modern web development architecture: Headless CMS = Content Management System for JAMstack sites This blog post covers: Netlify CMS for a JAMstack site built with Hugo + jQuery + Azure Functions This blog post is part of a series: Building a JAMstack site with Hugo and Azure Functions Managing content for a JAMstack site with Netlify CMS…
31 May 2017
Modern web development architecture: Static site generators + JavaScript + Serverless = JAMstack This blog post covers: Hugo + jQuery + Azure Functions = JAMstack This blog post is part of a series: Building a JAMstack site with Hugo and Azure Functions (this post) Managing content for a JAMstack site with Netlify CMS The example used in this blog post…
30 Apr 2017
I set out to learn about Azure Functions and this is the knowledge I have gathered so far. To have something to work with, I decided to migrate the ASP.NET Core Web API for “My latest online activities” to Azure Functions. As background, refer to these related blog posts: Getting started with React Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio Team Services…
31 Mar 2017
How to create a ASP.NET Core Web API, secure it with JSON Web Tokens and explore it with Swagger UI and Postman. You can view the example code in this post at https://github.com/hlaueriksson/ConductOfCode ASP.NET Core Web API I installed the new Visual Studio 2017 and created a new ASP.NET Core Web Application. Then I added these dependencies: Swagger with Swashbuckle.AspNetCore…
28 Feb 2017
I had reason to revisit the automocked base class from a previous blog post. I am working with another code base and have new opportunities for automocking. We have a lot of internal classes. Approximately 30% of the classes are marked as internal. The old approach did not work anymore. With an internal subject, I got this error: Inconsistent accessibility:…