Halldor Stefansson

Book Reviews, Summaries & Notes

Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson: Notes

Notes from the book "Ask Your Developer". What drives developers and how can you make them successful?

Application Programming Interface

How an HTTP Request Travels the Internet

What happens when a request goes from a client to a server.

Application Programming Interface

How to Design REST API Guidelines for Your Team (For the First Time)

Short story on how to design API guidelines for a company in 10 steps and with little experience

Application Programming Interface

How I Customized The Swagger UI In ASP.NET Core

Steps and examples of how the Swagger UI can be changed within .NET Core. Updating the route, replacing logo and changing colour

Cloud Software Development

Using SQLite in .NET Core Azure Web App

A short demonstration on how I use SQLite for a simple .NET Core API hosted in an Azure Web App.

Application Programming Interface

Building My First API From Scratch

Short story on how I found an API project to build. Using .NET Core with a clean architecture API design, versioning and unit tests

Cloud Software Development

Building a Personal Dashboard With .NET Core & Raspberry Pi

The steps and resources I used to build a .NET Core app to display weather, time and calendar information on a Raspberry Pi

Cloud Software Development

Moving My Static Site To Azure Storage, Saving Time & Money

Short story on how and why I moved my site to use Azure Storage, freeing me from maintenance work and saving money

Cloud Software Development

Creating an Automatic Newsletter With Azure Functions

Short story on I how to use Azure Functions to scrape a website daily and send an automatic newsletter

Cloud Software Development

How I Set Up Linux Web Server & Deployed My Static Site

Steps and resources necessary to set up a Linux (Ubuntu 18.04) webserver on DigitalOcean to host a simple site

Book Reviews, Summaries & Notes

Book summary: Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

Summary of the book Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark about artificial intelligence. Answering questions like what it is and what could happen in the future.

Cloud Software Development

Setting Up a Dropbox Alternative on Raspberry Pi

Steps needed to set up a Raspberry Pi to install and use Syncthing, a Dropbox or Google Drive alternative