We are over halfway through 2021, let's have a quick look at some things I have done this year:

• Deployed a new version of the Pre Qualification questionnaire website for my employers

• Passed Azure Fundamentals Exam

• Mongo DB Atlas - experimented with using it for auditing my application

• SonarCloud - tried to improve the quality of my code

• Azure DevOps API -> built an application to show builds and releases from my Azure DevOps organisation, code is on github

• Experimented with replacing SQL Agent Jobs with Azure Functions, ended up abandoning this project but was a great learning experience

• Played with MS Graph - displaying profile pic from Azure AD but I am the only one in my org with a photo so abandoned this as well

• Added a captch to a website to reduce spam

• Charted my Gas and Electricity usage using the Octopus Energy API

• Charted various metrics from services I use, eg twitter followers, github commits, blog posts published

• Started learning react, easily connected it with Azure AD

• Integrated my employers project management system with a postcode API and google maps so can see where in the country different projects are located

• Tested dotnet 6 preview and the latest Visual Studio 2022 preview

• I was made redundant and got a new job

• Wrote my first piece of dotnet code to run on a Raspberry Pi

• Kept cost of Azure down, by removing unused services, refactoring and optimizing existing services.

Wow, I have done loads this year, what is next?