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 - this is common in startups when they run out of money,…
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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 as an experienced developer however it's not always the…
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 Applications. This is not a complete guide to logging;…
You may noticed my frantic frequency of posts (I was at two a day for a while month!) has slowed down of late so I thought I'd give a quick update. NOTE: Translation seems to have broken along the way, when I get a chance I'll fix that. Why the Slowdown? I…
In this site I use Hightlight.js to render code snippets client side. I like this as it keeps my server side code clean and simple. However, I wanted to add a copy button to each code snippet so that users could easily copy the code to their clipboard. This is…
It seems like everyone has a version of this code, I first came across this approach from Filip W and recently my old colleague Phil Haack has his version. Just for completion this is how I do it. Why? The why is to make it easier to work with configuration.…
In part 1 of this series I showed you how I created a new Newsletter Subscription page. In this part I'll cover how I restructured the solution to allow for sharing of Services and Models between the Website project (Mostlylucid) and the Scheduler Service…
While perusing other people's blogs I noticed a lot of them have a subscription service which allows users to sign up to have an email sent to them weekly with the posts from that blog. I decided to implement my own version of this and share how I did it.…
In a previous post I detailed how I added Grafana to my docker-compose to provide insights into performance for this site. As I have Umami on here AND self host the database for that in this post I'l cover how I added new panels to view the data in Grafana.…
IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A DEVELOPER / LEADER PLEASE CONTACT ME I've been a freelance developer for more than a decade now (since I left Microsoft really). For the most part it's been perfect for me. I love to work remotely; I'm deaf so offices aren't a great…
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