2021 mid-year review and progress

funkysi1701@gmail.com (funkysi1701) — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 20:00:45 +0000

We are over halfway through 2021, let’s have a quick look at some things I have done this year:

Deployed a new version of the Pre Qualification questionnaire website for my employers
Passed Azure Fundamentals Exam
Mongo DB Atlas - experimented with using it for auditing my application
SonarCloud - tried to improve the quality of my code
Azure DevOps API -> built an application to show builds and releases from my Azure DevOps organisation, code is on github
Experimented with replacing SQL Agent Jobs with Azure Functions, ended up abandoning this project but was a great learning experience
Played with MS Graph - displaying profile pic from Azure AD but I am the only one in my org with a photo so abandoned this as well
Added a captch to a website to reduce spam
Charted my Gas and Electricity usage using the Octopus Energy API
Charted various metrics from services I use, eg twitter followers, github commits, blog posts published
Started learning react, easily connected it with Azure AD
Integrated my employers project management system with a postcode API and google maps so can see where in the country different projects are located
Tested dotnet 6 preview and the latest Visual Studio 2022 preview
I was made redundant and got a new job
Wrote my first piece of dotnet code to run on a Raspberry Pi
Kept cost of Azure down, by removing unused services, refactoring and optimizing existing services.

Wow, I have done loads this year, what is next?

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