Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
For a training project I was working on, I needed to be able to intercept some API calls for some audit logging. To do this, I decided to use Microsoft’s Dev Proxy tool, which you use to simulate, mock, and test APIs. As the Dev Proxy did not have the functionality I needed out of the box, I decided to develop a custom plugin with the help of Waldek Mastykarz.
Read moreIn the previous posts, I explained using the Microsoft’s Dev Proxy in a GitHub Actions workflow on a macOS and Ubuntu virtual machine. One thing I noticed is that the Dev Proxy installation fails in some runs. Show image Failed to install the Dev Proxy A way to solve this issue is by caching the Dev Proxy, and another benefit is that it speeds up your workflow.
Read moreIn my previous blog post, I explained how you could use the Microsoft’s Dev Proxy in a GitHub Actions workflow on a macOS runner. In this blog post, I will show you how to use the Dev Proxy in your GitHub Actions workflow on an Ubuntu runner. info You can read how to configure it on a macOS runner in the Using Dev Proxy in your GitHub Actions workflow on a macOS runner article.
Read moreLately, I have been working with the Microsoft’s Dev Proxy, a tool for API simulation, mocking, and testing. One of the things I wanted to try was to use the Dev Proxy in a GitHub Actions workflow so that I could use it in combination with Playwright to test my solutions with mocked APIs.
Read moreRunning background services on GitHub Actions can be helpful when you want to run some tests. For instance, start up the local server before running the tests. In my case, I was testing out Dev Proxy on GitHub Actions to see if I could use it in combination with Playwright to provide my mocks for my tests.
Read moreThe Azure AI Translator service has a new synchronous API in preview. The nice thing about this API is that it does not require any Azure Storage account to be set up to which you typically need to upload the files to be translated. Instead, you can just send the document to be translated directly to the API and you will get the translated document back.
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