Ken Dale

@kendaleiv
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Jesus follower, husband, father, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, opinions my own.
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New blog post!

Prompt To Benchmark: C# Benchmarking Via GitHub Agent Running .NET In The Cloud

https://kendaleiv.com/prompt-to-benchmark-csharp-benchmarking-via-github-agent-running-dotnet-in-the-cloud/

Prompt To Benchmark: C# Benchmarking Via GitHub Agent Running .NET In The Cloud

When creating a new repository on GitHub you can provide instructions for a GitHub Copilot coding agent to execute. The agent picks up those instructions, does the work in the cloud, and opens a pull request with the results – all from a single prompt at repository creation time.

Ken Dale
New blog post! Making Friends with Reviews: Providing Great Feedback https://kendaleiv.com/making-friends-with-reviews-providing-great-feedback/
Making Friends with Reviews: Providing Great Feedback

Jesus follower, husband, father, software engineer.

Ken Dale

AT TIME ZONE in T-SQL is great for bucketing counts (like daily) while respecting historical offset changes like daylight saving.

Small gotcha: You'll need to map from IANA to Windows Time Zone IDs for Azure SQL if sending IANA time zone via a browser.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/queries/at-time-zone-transact-sql

#sql

AT TIME ZONE (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server

AT TIME ZONE Converts an input date to the corresponding datetimeoffset value in the target time zone.

@khalidabuhakmeh I do not miss filing local taxes.
Anyone else getting lots of emails recently to Activate account?
@khalidabuhakmeh if it could ultimately pay for itself eventually.
@khalidabuhakmeh yikes, makes me wonder if we should be getting a car wash with underbody more frequently when there's salt on the vehicle.
@khalidabuhakmeh Yikes! What happened? Giant pothole?
We completed Mario Party 7 Solo Cruise today. The Bowser level isn't trivial but we prevailed!
Happy New Year! Have a prosperous, healthy, loved, and fun year -- and may we all know Jesus more.