I'm Tomas Restrepo — a software developer in Colombia and Chief Architect at CData. I build developer tools and write about what I learn doing it.
In my previous two posts, I covered how kondex builds its index and how you can query it. There’s one part I haven’t talked about yet, though: an index is not very useful if the LLM never thinks of using it. In this …
In my last post, I introduced kondex, a declaration indexing tool I wrote for our team. Today, I’d like to spend some time going over how to use the index to navigate the code base. Note: kondex will automatically detect …
It’s been a very long time since I’ve written on this blog, but wanted to pick this up again, and thought tools would be an excellent topic. Like most people in the Software Industry, I’ve been spending increasing …
Azure Files is an excellent service, providing file-system (SMB) based storage on the cloud. It has been very useful for us together with Azure Kubernetes Service. Functionality-wise, I have no complaints. While there …
I spent some time the last two days figuring out how to correctly import X.509 certificates into an Azure Key Vault instance using the API (through the Microsoft.Azure.KeyVault NuGet package), and ran into a few issues. …
It’s no secret I’m a big fan of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. Getting started with ARM templates is hard, but well worth the effort, and make it significantly easier to have reproduceable, consistent …
Rainbow braces, keyword colouring and text obfuscation for Visual Studio. Over 200K downloads.
A declaration indexing tool that helps language models find their way around a codebase.
A unit testing library for BizTalk Server pipelines, plus the Application Insights WCF SDK.