Antti K. Koskela is a Finnish Software Developer / Generally Geeky Person working as a Cloud Solutions Architect for Etteplan, living as a hermit in the beautiful Finnish countryside. Koskila.net is his personal professional (i.e. professional, but definitely personal) website.
Okay, let’s drop the third person speech. You can read more about me and stuff I do from here: https://www.koskila.net/antti-koskela/
In addition to this being my personal home page (nowadays, I guess that means a catalogue and links to my other stuff online in different channels, right?), I’m blogging about all kinds of exciting and/or tricky topics.
See a few of my latest blog articles below:
- System.Text.Json.JsonPropertyName not working for CosmosDb in .NET Core/5?
This article explains how to fix an annoying issue with Microsoft’s SDK for CosmosDb v3 – it comes with a Newtonsoft.Json dependency, that most of Microsoft’s recent packages have let go of. With .NET Core 3.1 having shipped with System.Text.Json included, and (mostly) replacing Newtonsoft.Json, it’s kind of the preferred option. However, CosmosDb v3 SDK doesn’t support it and by default requires you to use Newtonsoft.Json to override the property names, if you want to – for example – map entities with PascalCase naming with…Continue reading System.Text.Json.JsonPropertyName not working for CosmosDb in .NET Core/5? - Errors loading an assembly that’s using Microsoft Graph API
Man, do I run into all kinds of issues with the smallest Azure Functions that I develop. And it’s mostly my fault. The silver lining is that you’re here to read this article, so you probably ran into this same stuff. Well – you should be happy to hear this article describes fixes to a couple of issues – let’s see if they help you out as well! The article probably largely applies to any situation where you have a project referencing another project and…Continue reading Errors loading an assembly that’s using Microsoft Graph API - ILogger binding suddely failing for Azure Functions – what to do?
This article explains another fun issue you might run into, when developing Azure Functions in your local environment. It was weird how unclear the few results I could find were, and the issue is just… Very hazy in general. But I was able to track the issue down, and thought I’d document the solution :) It’s for myself, really, because I’m pretty sure I’ll run into this one again. But if you find it useful, good for you! 😉 Problem So what is it, that’s…Continue reading ILogger binding suddely failing for Azure Functions – what to do?
What’s koskila.net about?
The tagline for my blogging efforts has been Solutions are worthless unless shared for quite a while already. That’s to say, since I’ve gotten a lot of help from the community whenever I’ve had issues getting something to work, I like to give something back. This blog is my way of doing that.
Blogging has been a great, lightweight way to sort my thoughts and document weird fixes and findings along the way. And boy, has there been a lot of them! Microsoft’s stack always keeps surprising me – mostly in a positive way, but there’s an occasional bump along the way too.
These are some of the topics I often write about: Azure Active Directory errors, Azure PowerShell errors, terrifying examples about how to open a modal dialog in SharePoint using JavaScript, all kinds of weird new Microsoft Azure -related tidbits of information, a bunch of Visual Studio -related (and other) tips and tricks, and of course the blog’s namesake – SharePoint Problems.
A lot of people seem to struggle with the same issues, as the blog nowadays has some 70 000 visitors monthly. May you find my thoughtful workarounds as useful as I have!
In addition to more technical posts, sometimes I might post about my sessions at different community events, or experiences as an expat living in a foreign country (in 2017, that country was the USA, in 2018 & 2019 Canada). Right before the pandemic, I moved back to Finland to live in the middle of a forest.
Speaking Gigs
Back in the olden days, when the world was not on fire, I used to travel to different events. Now it’s all digital, which is… Not quite the same.
You can also see a list of all my sessions and session materials.
No upcoming engagements. Would love to meet y’all again, after we’ve got a vaccine or something.
Want to learn more? Check out the about me -page, page/post archive, the list of my blog posts (latest first) or contact me! :)
