The VIC20 reborn in the UK, 35 years after Commodore announced and launched the Commodore C64 for the masses
The VIC20 reborn in the UK
Author: Enrico
My greatest passion is technology. I am interested in multiple fields and I have a lot of experience in software design and development. I started professional development when I was 6 years. Today I am a strong full-stack .NET developer (C#, Xamarin, Azure)
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
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Azure DevOps releases AppServices
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What is YAML?
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How to avoid a climate disaster
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Azure Resource naming convention guide
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Getting started with R
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Xcode becomes vector for new Mac malware attack
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Apple has finally met its Fortnite match
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Test our code with json
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Quantum Computing: solutions that fly
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SSL Encryption
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Using Git Flow with GitKraken and Azure DevOps
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How to add music to iPhone
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Application Insights: select and filter
Azure Application Insights has a specific language and syntax for select and filter data different from Structured Query Language (SQL). In this post, I am going to compare Analytics query language to SQL with examples for selection and filtration. First, navigate to analytics page of any Application Insights App by clicking Logs tab in the overview page of the app. Then, analytics tab opens a new editor window that you can type your query in it. Now, in the query editor we are going to write our queries using the…