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ASP.NET Core Caching with HTMX
Caching is an important technique to both improve user experience by loading content faster and to reduce the load on your server. In this article I'll show you how to use the built-in caching...
Monday, 12 August 2024 00:50
//4 minute read
Adding Entity Framework for Blog Posts (Part 1, Setting up the Database)
Buckle in because this will be a long one!
You can see parts 2 and 3 here and here.
Introduction
While I've been happy with my file based approach to blogging, as an excercise I decided to move to...
Sunday, 11 August 2024 04:53
//6 minute read
Using Docker Compose for Development Dependencies
When developing software traditionally we'd spin up a database, a message queue, a cache, and maybe a few other services. This can be a pain to manage, especially if you're working on multiple...
Friday, 09 August 2024 17:17
//3 minute read
Adding Paging with HTMX and ASP.NET Core with TagHelper
Now that I have a bunch of blog posts the home page was getting rather length so I decided to add a paging mechanism for blog posts.
This goes along with adding full caching for blog posts to make...
Friday, 09 August 2024 12:50
//3 minute read
Using Umami for Local Analytics
One of the things that annoyed me about my current setup was having to use Google Analytics to get visitor data (what little there is of it ??). So I wanted to find something I could self-host that...
Thursday, 08 August 2024 15:53
//5 minute read
Guid format string from a string input extension.
Small Posts FTW
Small but potentially useful solution to a problem I was having. Namely, how to generate a GUID from a string input where the Guid is always valid but unique for any given input...
Wednesday, 07 August 2024 17:17
//1 minute read
Adding a RSS feed with ASP.NET Core
RSS (and Atom) is still the only widely adopted format for syndicating content. It's a simple XML format that can be consumed by a wide range of feed readers. In this post, I'll show you how to add an...
Wednesday, 07 August 2024 13:53
//3 minute read
Adding Background Sending for Emails
##Introduction
In my previous post I detailed how to send emails using FluentEmail and the SMTP Client. However one issue with this is the delay in sending emails. SMTP servers tend to be slow and can...
Wednesday, 07 August 2024 08:15
//4 minute read
Sending HTML Emails from ASP.NET Core with FluentEmail
This is a fairly simple article but will cover some of the odness of using FluentEmail in ASP.NET Core to send HTML emails I haven't seen elsewhere.
The Problem
Sending HTML mails is itself kinda...
Wednesday, 07 August 2024 00:30
//5 minute read
A Blast from the past
This just popped up on Facebook, an old image of me in my office at Microsoft.
Office at Microsoft
A long long time ago in a country far, far away I was a lowly PMII at Microsoft. I was working on the...
Tuesday, 06 August 2024 21:30
//2 minute read