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Bye Bye Cusdis I have been using a commenting system called Cusdis in this blog for a year now. Cusdis is an open-source, lightweight, and created with a privacy focus.  Now I started to consider other commenting systems because I have had random errors it and issues, especially with spamming.

Iterations during the years The first iteration (2018): Headless CMS + Azure App Service I started blogging over four years ago and then I decided to use a Headless CMS solution for content creation and create the frontend layer by myself. Basically, the setup contained an ASP.NET Core application which

I have hosted this blog in Azure App Service (B1 Tier) for a few years now. This App Service has been worked in my Azure Subscription (Visual Studio subscription). Visual Studio subscription provides monthly Azure credits which can be utilized for testing Azure services. Visual Studio Enterprise provides Azure credits

I studied for AZ-202 Azure Developer transition certification in March. I had earlier completed the 70-532 certification so I was able to go AZ-202 (transition) certification exam. AZ-202 covered the following topics: Develop for cloud storage * Develop solutions that use file storage * Develop solutions that use a relational database Create

This blog post shows how I uploaded FIT and GPX exercise files to Strava via a custom web application. My first plan was to parse FIT files and then upload exercise data to the Strava (create activity API). I implemented the first application version of that using the FastFitParser (C#

A few years ago I bought a Garmin wrist device. Before that, I have used Suunto devices for many years. When I made the device switch all my exercise data stayed with the Suunto services (Movescount and SportsTracker). Currently, I'm synchronizing all exercise data of course to the

This blog post covers: How to implement a small ASP.NET Core application that redirects users to the PHR Sandbox server and retrieves access tokens from the PHR endpoint. This application is used to demonstrate OAuth 2 authorization code flow. Before creating this application read my previous blog post about

This blog post handles how to create a new application client to the PHR Sandbox environment via self-service portal. Create an admin user First, you have to create an admin user for the self-service portal. Admin users can be created via this site. Admin users can create new application clients

I recently familiarized myself with the Omatietovaranto (Finnish Personal Health Record) data repository service and web interfaces in a work project. Omatietovaranto (PHR) is a centralized national location for health and well-being data that is produced or measured in applications or devices. Measurable data (observations) can be steps, activity, weight,

A few months ago I got a task to create a simple participant registration system (personal project). People are registering for the running event via this system. This blog post contains information on how this system was built. I'm interested in investigating new technologies so I decided to