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An Auto-Update Partial Updater with Alpine.js and HTMX

Alpine.js ASP.NET Core HTMX Javascript

So in what's becoming a series, in a work project I wanted to add the ability for a partial to auto-update on a given timescale. Here's how I did it using Alpine.js and HTMX. Requirements So I wanted...

Wednesday, 23 April 2025 19:30

7 minute read

Using SweetAlert2 for HTMX Loading indicators (hx-indicator)

HTMX Javascript

On a work project I've been using and abusing HTMX to build an admin UI. As part of this I'm using the lovely SweetAlert2 Javascript library for my confirmation dialogs. It works great but I also...

Monday, 21 April 2025 20:05

13 minute read

Showing Toast and Swapping Content with HTMX (And ASP.NET Core)

ASP.NET Core HTMX

HTMX is a great library for making your web applications more dynamic and responsive. In this post, I'll show you how to use HTMX to show a toast notification and swap content on the page. One of the...

Saturday, 12 April 2025 13:33

8 minute read

A Paging View Component ASP.NET Core Tag Helper (Part 2, PageSize)

ASP.NET Core PagingTagHelper TagHelper

As part of my ongoing sage with my paging tag helper I have now separated out PageSize into its own tag helper. This is to make the tag helper more flexible and to allow for more complex paging...

Tuesday, 25 March 2025 22:12

7 minute read

An Apology about my Nuget Package

ASP.NET PagingTagHelper Random

Well I've been playing with a nuget package for doing paging stuff in ASP.NET and well I never thought there'd be 1.7k downloads. I thoght not making a 1.0 version would make it clear that it was a...

Thursday, 20 March 2025 21:30

1 minute read

A Paging View Component ASP.NET Core Tag Helper (Part 1.1, kinda sorta...A Flippy Tag Helper)

ASP.NET Core PagingTagHelper TagHelper

So while building out a project I originally built the paging tag helper for I also cam across ANOTHER need. A way to easily build sorting functionality for a table of results with HtMX...

Monday, 17 March 2025 22:12

7 minute read

A Paging View Component ASP.NET Core Tag Helper (Part 1 the Bare-Bones)

ASP.NET Core PagingTagHelper TagHelper

A work project the other day necessitated implementing paging form results. My go-to paging tag helper has always been the pagination Tag Helper by Darrel O'Neill as I wrote about here however for...

Tuesday, 11 March 2025 17:12

14 minute read

When Your Customers Don't Pay; on time or AT ALL (a contractor's life pt. 2)

Freelancing

In my previous post I spoke about the difficulties of being a contractor and how sometimes you can be left high and dry when a customer doesn't pay. This can happen for a few reasons; They CANNOT pay...

Tuesday, 12 November 2024 06:30

11 minute read

Working on Legacy Codebases (or a contractor's life)

Legacy Code

As a freelance developer one of the skill-sets you need to learn quickly is how to work on existing codebases effectively. I've been lucky to have built a bunch of from--scratch systems; this is a JOY...

Wednesday, 06 November 2024 22:30

17 minute read

On Logging in ASP.NET Applications (Part 1...probably)

ASP.NET C# Logging Serilog

Logging is OF COURSE a critical part of applications however I often see it misunderstood / misused in ASP.NET applications. This is part post and part manifesto on how to effectively log in ASP.NET...

Sunday, 27 October 2024 17:00

10 minute read

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