ITBLogs.InfoWhether we need a physical office location
Yesterday, I had a chat in a law firm at Southside of Brisbane. I suggested they can provide some initial consultations online. They accepted my suggestions. After the conversation, I found a lot of professional service providers such as Accountants, lawyers, and property valuers, do not require a physical office location. Nowadays, a lot of things can do it online. The customers can make the inquiry online via email or Whatsapp. A lot of face to face meetings can reduce. The professionals can work from home too because they need a computer to work. We can communicate with our colleagues online. There are live chat tools, such as MS teams and slack.
Yes, they still need to meet the people in person. For example, you need to verify your customers' identity or witness their signature. Then we need a sort of co-working space to hire a meeting room. Of course, for colleagues, we need to have some team meeting activities, then we go to a restaurant or a coffee shop for this purpose. Yes, I know if you need to pair up someone for a project, for example, pair programming or brainstorming. That is better to work in the same physical location. Then the co-working space is the solution again. You can hire some hot desks in there.
I think the demand for co-working spaces will be increasing in the current trend, rather than the needs of an office.
The best practice to show or hide the element in Angular
In the past, AngularJS is using "ng-if" to control whether the div is show or hide. That is basic 101. In Angular, the syntax are changed, there are no more "ng-" somethings. Now, that is using somethings more similar with, [hidden]. So you can bind a variable with that to control the visibility of div.
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Angular + Asp.net core identity is not easy, you need some custom claims
In Visual Sutdio 2019, Angular+ .net core identity is nearly done by a single click. But that is not easy if you wish to add extra custom claims. I have tried to used IdentityResource or IProfileService to config the Identity server at Startup.cs. That is not successful. That is easier to build own in this case. Mainly, you need to build login service by yourself.
At this stage, I believe the angular code can be reuse. I just need to config it to use my own login url.
Separating the routes in angular
I don't know why the default .net core angular template all routes in the app.modules.ts like this
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RouterModule.forRoot([ | |
{ path: '', component: HomeComponent, pathMatch: 'full' }, | |
{ path: 'counter', component: CounterComponent }, | |
{ path: 'fetch-data', component: FetchDataComponent }, | |
]) |
If you build more modules, then the codes will become quite unmanageable. This is not clean at all.
I suggest a better practice, to create app.routes.ts.
This like:
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export class AppRoutes { | |
getRoutes() { | |
return [ | |
{ path: '', component: HomeComponent, pathMatch: 'full' }, | |
{ path: 'counter', component: CounterComponent }, | |
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{ path: 'fetch-data', component: FetchDataComponent }, | |
]; | |
} | |
} |
Then in the app.modules.ts, it will import the routes
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let appRoutes = new AppRoutes(); | |
RouterModule.forRoot(appRoutes.getRoutes()) |
This approach is more clear
X Bows Keyboard - The unusal but comfortable keyboard
The X-Bows Keyboard started from the Kickstarter a few years ago. It has an unusual keyboard pattern, and it claimed to balance performance and comfort. That is a very attractive slogan. So, I bought one to test it out for USD$125 (Non-LED backlight version).
I took about two weeks shipped from China to Australia. Firstly, I have to admire their customer support very promptly. They answered my question unless than 24 hours. Secondly, their built quality is excellent; the keyboard feels solid. Thirdly, the pattern of the keyboard is quite unusual. It took me three days to adapt. After I get used to the pattern, the typing is fast, very similar to the standard keyboard. Moreover, it is quite ergonomic; it is a natural hand position.
Besides, the wrist rest is very high quality. I cannot find anyone as comfort as like this one
However, there are some downsides. Firstly, you have to very careful to update the firmware. First times, I did that. I "killed" my keyboard. Please do not worry, after I contacted their support team, and they gave me a software to reflash the ROM. Then it works again. Another downside is the keyword switch is Gateron, not cherry MX. I found the typing experience is a bit less comfortable than cherry.
In general, I love this keyboard.