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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Aug 27

Working on the final part of my Azure for Developers course series. This one will focus on Entra ID & automation. So many scenarios to choose from! If there's anything you always wanted to know about Entra ID and/or you'd like to see in such a course, now would be a good time to let me know ;-)

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Jul 7

New course out now on Dometrain: Cloud Architecture in Azure. I really enjoyed making this one (and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!). I hope you'll like it as well. 30% OFF this summer! dometrain.com/course/from-...

From Zero to Hero: Cloud Architecture in Azure

Master Cloud Architecture in Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.

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Gui Ferreira @guiferreira.me · Jun 5

Watched a senior dev spend 3 days testing code that took 2 hours to write.
Why? He wrote it backwards.

Most C# devs do.

I did too—until I learned to write code that wants to be tested.

I packed 15 years of lessons into a 4h course.
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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Jun 4

I don't like short, concise texts. I prefer writing long texts, with lots of additional words for context and nuance. Less is more? No, MORE IS MORE :-) Turns out that in the age of AI, that's not a good trait to have; each token costs money.

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Dan Clarke @danclarke.com · Apr 30

I'm excited to announce that my 4th #Dometrain course has just gone live! 🥳 This is on the amazing #dotnet Aspire!! It covers everything you need to know and includes all the latest 9.2 goodness!
It's the last day of the birthday sale! Get 40% off with this link... dometrain.com/course/getti...

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Apr 22

Happy to announce that my latest Pluralsight course, "Secure Authorization for C# Applications", went live! Enjoy :) app.pluralsight.com/library/cour...

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Apr 7

Very happy to announce my latest Dometrain course went live! Want to learn how to use AI to increase your productivity when developing? This deep dive follow-up to my AI getting started course is what you need :) Enjoy, and get 40% off with code "EARLYBDAY40"!

Deep Dive: Boosting Developer Productivity with AI

Deep dive into Artificial Intelligence to improve developer productivity

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Apr 2

For Dometrain, an AI deep dive should be released soon. Next one is on Cloud Architecture, really enjoying creating that one :) For PS, it's one about access control. After that, likely more Azure courses (doing a lot of Azure stuff as a consultant these days) & a lot of updates to .NET 10 :-)

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Mar 21

Been using GitHub Copilot with Claude Sonnet 3.7 as LLM lately. It's amazing how much better and more reliable that is than GPT4o.

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Mar 19

This one will be on Dometrain

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Mar 18

Currently creating a course on cloud architecture. Fun stuff! :-) Also, always nice to write a course on something you also do for clients: it's a good idea to revisit your own thought process from time to time, question it and adjust where needed. Writing it down works toward that.

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Feb 26

Not by me. There's as good as always non-competes in course contracts: I can't make what I make for Pluralsight for Dometrain, and vice versa; which I think makes sense, pretty normal in our area of work. BUT: I do happen to know security courses are underway for Dometrain - just not by me :-)

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Feb 25

Very happy to announce that my latest Pluralsight course, ASP.NET Core Web API Authentication Playbook, went live! Hope you'll like it :) app.pluralsight.com/library/cour... #api #jwt #authentication #aspnetcore

Sign In | Pluralsight

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Feb 24

PONG. In the tab bar. Just 240 tabs needed. Fascinating. Useless, but fascinating :) github.com/nolenroyalty...

GitHub - nolenroyalty/faviconic: what if you could run games in your tab bar?

what if you could run games in your tab bar? Contribute to nolenroyalty/faviconic development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Feb 19

Sure, feel free to send me a mail at [email protected] :)

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Nico Vermeir @nicovermeir.bsky.social · Feb 17

The @techorama.bsky.social NL call for papers is open! Submit your session now!

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Techorama 2025 Netherlands : Call for Speakers

Techorama is a yearly international technology conference focusing on Microsoft technologies which started in Belgium in 2014. In 2018, Techorama had ...

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Damien Bowden @damienbod.com · Feb 17

Blogged: Customizing a single client sign-in using parameters in Duende IdentityServer

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#aspnetcore #dotnet #identity #duende #oauth #openidconnect

Customizing a single client sign-in using parameters in Duende IdentityServer

This post looks at customizing the sign-in UI and the sign-in options in an ASP.NET Core application using Duende IdentityServer and ASP.NET Core Identity. There are multiple ways of changing the l…

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Feb 5

I made something :) A sample GitHub Copilot AI agent that uses RAG (retrieval augmented generation) prompting to ensure the LLM answers take existing code/coding guidelines into account. Enjoy! github.com/KevinDockx/M... #ai #llm #github #copilot @github.com

GitHub - KevinDockx/Marvin.RAGPromptingAgent: A sample GitHub Copilot AI agent that uses RAG (retrieval augmented generation) prompting to ensure the LLM answers take existing code/coding guidelines i...

A sample GitHub Copilot AI agent that uses RAG (retrieval augmented generation) prompting to ensure the LLM answers take existing code/coding guidelines into account. - KevinDockx/Marvin.RAGPrompti...

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Jan 30

Figured it out - expect some code soon :)

Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Jan 30

Trying to write an example AI Agent (packaged in a GitHub Copilot extension). The idea is to end up with an RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) example that'll use parts of my own repos as coding guidelines. Not sure how well this will go, but if I figure it out I'll share it on my GitHub :-)

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Jan 29

homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in a grassy field .

ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in a grassy field .

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Jan 29

Discovery of the day: Dev Tunnels. I seem to have missed the existence of this for over a year or so. Woops. VERY convenient when you need to expose whatever you're debugging/running on localhost to the outside world. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet...

Dev tunnels in Visual Studio 2022

Learn how to use dev tunnels in Visual Studio with ASPNET Core apps.

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Jan 29

One of the books I just keep coming back to, year after year: Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards & Neal Ford. A must-read for every architect, even if you already have years of experience. #softwarearchitecture

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Jan 24

You know, back in the days before agile, when we still did that ;-) Fascinating.

I'm not into the "AI WILL REPLACE EVERYTHING"-hype - seen too many hypes in the tech sector for that -, but the fact that it can be a very powerful productivity tool is undeniable.

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Kevin Dockx @kevindockx.bsky.social · Jan 24

Next to that, I gave context by referencing existing files. I asked for small things, and I did that step by step. The result of this prompt was almost exactly what I needed, and if you look at it, what's in the prompt isn't that different from what I used to write in a technical analysis.

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