Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
Azure Functions do not have an out-of-the-box caching mechanism. For caching, the recommended way would be to use a distributed cache like Azure Cache or Redis. These services each come with their price tag and might be too robust for the cache you want to create or need. For Azure Function created with C#, you can use the good old memory cache.
Read moreFor a long time, I loved using Postman for API testing. Ever since the Chrome apps got deprecated, the experience was not the same anymore. Since then, I have been using Charles, Insomnia, and some other tools. This week I discovered an experimental feature in Microsoft Edge which allows you to edit and replay API calls from within the browser.
Read moreSince version 85 of Chrome, the default referrer policy has changed from no-referrer-when-downgrade to strict-origin-when-cross-origin. This change might have a significant impact on your SharePoint Framework solutions when they rely on the referrer header (or better, the referer header with a single “r”). What is the referrer header? Whenever your browser does an API call, the referrer header gets used to indicate the page’s origin from where it was performed.
Read moreSince the beginning of 2013, I have been using the same blog theme with a couple of small changes that I did over the years. Most of the time, I would change the primary colors, but that was all. Why would you change something which works fine? When I moved from WordPress to a static site, at first, I thought it would be an excellent time to redo the design, but the migration took a bit longer, so I just ported the design to Hugo.
Read moreDuring the Corona crisis, Luise Freese and I was chatting about conferences and stickers. Nobody can get stickers these days, as all conferences are now virtual. That brought us to the crazy idea of opening our sticker store on which we want to sell stickers created for IT/Tech/DEV people. Info the store is called Pimp Your Own Device and is available at: http://pimpyourowndevice.
Read moreOn the first of September 2020, the PnP team organized its first virtual conference. The conference had lots of great sessions, and I am sure you would have had a hard time picking the sessions you wanted to follow. You know what they say, choosing is losing. Actually, that is not true.
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