Coding With David

  I have mentioned in several previous posts that I have a long list of Blazor applications that I want to build.   I did a self-driven analysis of the structure and hurdles of all the different applications I have written and the applications I have planned to develop.   I found patterns to slow starts.   My new goal is to eliminate the built-in excuses for not even starting these new projects by building a design system. From my analysis, I found out I get stuck on several decision hurdles:                1.        Colors        2.        Layout        3.        Authentication        4.          Database Use        5.        User Controls        6.   ...

 One of the great things I like about the software development profession is that you can never learn everything and there's always something new to learn.  I started thinking that I needed to keep track of the new things I learned.  I decided I'm going to start posting every time I have three or four new things that I have learned.  I normally have a goal trying to learn at least one new thing per day, some days it's hard some days it's easy to get more than a few.  I have multiple sources that I use to learn new fun and exciting things from social media, blogs, virtual conferences, YouTube and news do company events.  For this week I have learned how to make the background of an image transparent, how to get a color palette from an image, and that there is a difference in Blazor JSON serialization.  Transparent Image To be able to make an image with a transparent background you need a software package that will remove the background color.  Ther...