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Ricardo Sanchez

Ricardo Sanchez

Seattle

Favorite Visual Studio Code Extensions of 2018

Favorite Visual Studio Code Extensions of 2018

Visual Code is a fantastic code editor, but what really makes it powerful are the extensions available for it. In this post, I share some of my favorite VS Code extensions while using VS Code to develop web applications. * WakaTime – Metrics, insights, and time tracking automatically generated from your programming

Create a NuGet package from a VS project and include all referenced dependencies

It’s been a while since I had to build a NuGet package, a long while. While as a developer I use multiple NuGet packages all the time in my applications, I think I’ve created only a few of my own. Needless to say, I am a total noob

Run code from your code editor

The other day I discovered this useful extension that allows you to run your code from within the Atom editor. The name of the extension is Script Runner, and while there are many other extensions that do this, I really like how this one shows the code results on the

Portability vs. Extra Power - What type of laptop to use when writing code

If you had the option to select a laptop for software development, and the options where between something portable like a very capable ultralight laptop, or a much bigger, and much powerful laptop, which one would you choose? The specific models aren’t important really, as you might be reading

How to find great developers.

In response to those companies, hiring managers, interviewers who keep asking the same question: Where can I find great developers? A developer becomes a “great developer” when the company, team, resources, projects, recognition, etc., are compatible with that person. Under that logic, I believe any programmer can be great if

Cloudy days

It’s been cloudy in the city of Austin for a few weeks now, and while this isn’t uncommon for this time of the year, it has been impactful for me as it reminds me of the type of weather we’ll find in Seattle. Why is this impactful

What can you do with Azure Functions? Here's one example.

Last week I attended a tech conference where I learned about Azure Functions. This new service from Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform, is something that got me interested. Microsoft is promoting this new service as a server-less option for simple APIs, triggers, notifications, and anything that you can think of