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