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As part of my new COVID-19 application I've been writing, I had to import statistics from a data source. The COVID Tracking Project maintains daily records of various statistics regarding the pandemic for each state and at a nation level. It publishes this data as an API and also as a set of CSV files.
In web applications, it can be necessary to have tasks that run on start up of an application. In older ASP.Net, this was not as clear cut how to accomplish. In ASP.Net Core there is a clear pattern established through the IHostedService interface to make this a breeze.
Part of the look and feel of building a web application is determining what icons to use. There are so many great standalone icon libraries available today. Many design frameworks and languages offer their own icon libraries.
Ever wanted to animate an HTML element as it becomes visible on a webpage? Often, I've seen others make cool animations that trigger when scrolled into view on a website page. For example, sliding text in from the right when the page scrolls in, or making text fade in when it scrolls into view.
I've been watching a few pluralsight courses on CSS transitions lately. I've been observing other sites and have noticed a lot of little transitions that improve the overall feel of the site. Things like rotating elements, fading in text, or motion to provide simple animations can add a new level interactivity.
Over the past year or so, I've been trying to write more technical blogs on this webpage. Mainly, I'm trying to improve my communication skills and document some of the various side projects I've been working on in my free time. I used a static site generator named Hugo to build this site.
In my previous post, I described setting up an Angular application for authentication to a Microsoft Account using Microsoft's MSAL library. In this post, I will describe connecting to a Microsoft Graph API utilizing the sign in from the MSAL library. Angular has a helper class that can be utilized to make API calls to external services.
The first blog in this series is going to describe authenticating as a registered application in Azure Active Directory with Microsoft's MSAL package in Angular. To see all blogs related to my Raspberry Pi calendar application, check out the project page. There are a lot of great things about using an identity service: The application will be integrating with a specific identity provider (Azure Active Directory).
A few months ago, I built a Raspberry Pi Kiosk that acted as a nameplate. Since then, a lot has changed in the world. I've been working from home full time, so COVID-19 has rendered my nameplate useless.
Over the past year, I've been experimenting with various technologies for building web applications. It is fun hosting them somewhere so other people can see them and writing blog articles about them. In the past web hosting cost money, not a lot of money, but enough to defer me from putting applications on the web.
