Clint McMahon

Umbraco

Migrating Umbraco sites has become easy

I've completed so many Umbraco migrations over the past year that they've become incredibly easy to execute. Now that I've been doing them for a while, I've created a template that I follow to make the process almost automatic.

Coffee

Developing a Minneapolis Coffee Shop Locator

Over the weekend I had the idea to create a Minneapolis coffee shop locator app. I'm going to call it MPLS Coffee. The idea is simple, the user will open the app and it will show them the all the coffee shops in Minneapolis in a map view

minneapolis

Photos: A walk around Gold Medal Park

Earlier this month I had a few minutes to spare downtown so I decided to take a walk around Gold Medal Park.

Web

What's the difference between 401 and 403 response codes

There's a small but significant difference between 401 and 403 response codes. Both are related to authentication and authorization.

weather

Warm Septembers

The query, visualization and data set below is for the average Minneapolis temperature (combination of high and low temps) for September from the beginning of records until today (2024).

Consulting

How to have effective stand-up meetings to maximize productivity

Stand-up meetings are often mismanaged (or not managed at all) and therefore end up wasting time and killing productivity. If stand ups go too long and drawn out, people will stop paying attention.

Consulting

Tech consultant, freelance developer or contractor...Who am I?

Whenever I meet someone new they inevitably ask "What do you do for a living?" and I never know what to tell people. My best take is to say "I'm a developer that companies hire to develop software, create technology strategies and fix their development issues".

weather

First real heat of the year

There's a heat dome forecast to settle into the upper Midwest tomorrow that will hang around for the next week. Temperatures are expected to be 85F degrees and higher with lows dipping only into the 70s at night. This will be the warmest the summer of 2024 has been so far.

Quickbooks

Quickbooks Payment API

Today I learned how the Quickbooks Payment API system works from the standpoint of the C# Quickbooks API client. The architecture or pattern used to process credit cards is known as Tokenization.

sql server

How to execute multiple SQL Server views in C#

This blog post shows how to return data from multiple SQL Server views in a single database trip with C# WebAPI.

C#

How to reverse engineer a database with Entity Framework Core

Here are the steps to reverse engineer or scaffold your SQL Server database into C# models.

life

Taking meetings from the sidewalk

Today I biked with my son to his summer day camp and instead of rushing into an office to join a meeting after dropping him off, I opened Zoom on my phone and joined my regularly scheduled morning meeting.

OData

How to create a custom bound OData function

Create a custom OData function. Specifically a bound function which is a function that is associated with a specific entity type or entity set.

Coffee

Baratza Encore grind is off

Instead of the red tabs lining up which indicates you put the grinder in correctly, they were on opposite sides of each other. The misaligned grinder was causing the my grinds to be completely off. So instead of a grind size of 20, I was producing a grind of 40.

Azure B2C

How to view all Azure AD B2C users programmatically

This post shows how to get a list of Azure AD B2C users programmatically by using the Graph API client for .Net in a .Net Core (8) MVC web app.

github

Deploy .Net Core app to Azure App Service via Github Actions

Setting up a GitHub Action to deploy a .Net Core web app to Azure App Service from your GitHub repository involves a couple steps. This blog post shows a detailed guide to help you set up a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions.

Umbraco

How to throw an error inside an Umbraco Macro

This is a post about how to throw Umbraco Macro errors or how to turn off the generic error "Error loading Partial View script(....)" when loading Umbraco Macros in your Razor view.

Photos

Playa del Carmen vacation photos

Playa del Carmen vacation photos

weather

Updates to Today's Record High

I updated my climate tracking website, Today's Record High, this week to get better SEO results for users search for what is today's record high.

Consulting

Tech stacks don't really matter

The main theme I got from the post was that languages that are adopted by the majority of developers and businesses tend to stick around. The fact that they stick around means we eventually are left with a lot of languages to choose from.

Transmission On The Radio Playlist Is Back

I created a script that runs every Thursday night at 11pm central time to automatically update a Spotify playlist called Transmission On The Radio. Transmission is a weekly dance party hosted by DJ Jake Rudh in Minneapolis every Wednesday.

Lessons Learned From a Weird Client Call

I had a weird client call. These are the lessons that I learned from having a client call where the person on the other end didn't want to talk about working together.

weather

The warmest winters in Minneapolis to date

It feels like its getting warmer here, so I wanted to show the actual trend to give me a definite answer. The project involved parsing through extensive weather data to track the average temperatures of seasons across years - winter in this case.

Azure B2C

Making a SaaS App

I have the idea to develop an application that allows developers and website administrators to view and edit Azure B2C custom properties and extension attributes.

Upgrading Umbraco 7 to Umbraco 13

This is my journey about updating an Umbraco 7 website to the latest version of Umbraco - which is Umbraco 13 as of today.