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Month: October 2020
Create a Positive/Negative bar chart in Excel
In this post I want to explain step by step how to create a positive/negative bar chart in Microsoft Excel. Another interesting post for Excel is here about how to highlight content. If you want to show how multiple units does comparison to each other based on the same criteria clearly, you can use the positive negative bar chart which can display positive and negative development very good as below screenshot shown. Arrange data Supposing the original data displayed as below: Firstly, add some helper columns: Calculate the difference between…
How to highlight specific text in Excel
In Excel, I want to highlight a specific text within a cell to make it outstanding but not the entire cell
Azure DevOps releases AppServices
In this post, I’m going to explain how to create a pipeline and a release in Azure DevOps that releases into AppServices. This is quite important step to go forward a digital transformation in your company to improve and optimize the developer’s process. In the pipeline Azure DevOps builds the solution (projects and tests) and create an artifact. Then, with the release, it publishes the artifact into to a AppService in Azure. Now I show step by step how to create both. Pipeline First, you have to create a New…
What is YAML?
YAML is a human-readable data serialization standard that can be used in conjunction with all programming languages and is often used to write configuration files. Overview The recursive YAML acroynym stands for “YAML Ain’t Markup Language,” denoting it as flexible and data-oriented. In fact, it can be used with nearly any application that needs to store or transmit data. Its flexibility is partially due to the fact that YAML is made up of bits and pieces of other languages. A few examples of these similarities include: Scalars, lists, and associative…
How to avoid a climate disaster
In my book, Bill Gates share what he’s learned from more than a decade of studying climate change with experts and investing in the innovations we’ll need to address it. He hopes to explain the science in a clear and compelling way
Azure Resource naming convention guide
The goal of this post is to offer a simple guide how to generate naming convention for Azure resource, bearing in mind some restrictions from Azure itself. Naming Principals First, I want to give you some generic information about naming in Azure: The naming pattern must support easy application level grouping for show back/charge back billing when required. Constraints: Some resources are constrained by their identifier length, and case sensitivity The convention MUST Describes type of resource in the subscription. Constraints: Some resources must be uniquely named across entire Azure. The establishment…
Implement security workflow with Identity Server
The goal of this post is to implement security workflow with Identity Server 4 and C# among projects and services. With a bunch of examples, I’m going to show, practically, how to do it.
Star Wars Squadrons is an intricate dogfighter
Star Wars: Squadrons is an intricate dogfighter. The space dogfighter does exactly what you want it to do and you expect to get