Categories
Alpine
Alpine.js
Apline.js
ASP.NET
ASP.NET Core
Blog
C#
Clearing the smoke
Docker
EasyNMT
Entity Framework
FluentEmail
GitHub Actions
Google Auth
Grafana
HTMX
IHostedService
ImageSharp
Interviewing
introduction
Javascript
Markdown
Mermaid
Microsoft
Moq
Nuget
OpenSearch
Polly
Postgres
Prometheus
Razor
resume
RSS
Seq
Serilog
Tailwind
Umami
Unit Testing
WebAPI
xUnit
Self Hosting Seq for ASP.NET Logging
Seq is an application which lets you view and analyse logs. It's a great tool for debugging and monitoring your application. In this post I'll cover how I set up Seq to log my ASP.NET Core...
Wednesday, 28 August 2024 09:37
//4 minute read
Adding Umami Tracking Client Nuget Package
Now I have the Umami client; I need to package it up and make it available as a Nuget package. This is a pretty simple process but there are a few things to be aware of.
Creating the Nuget...
Wednesday, 28 August 2024 02:00
//4 minute read
Adding Umami Tracking Client Follow Up
In an earlier post I sketched out how a Tracking Client for Umami in C# could work.
Well I've finally had a chance to test it extensively and improve it's operation (yes ANOTHER...
Tuesday, 27 August 2024 02:00
//6 minute read
Background Translations Pt. 3
In previous articles, we have discussed the importance of translation in the context of web applications. We have also explored the use of the EasyNMT library to perform translations in an ASP.NET...
Sunday, 25 August 2024 03:20
//10 minute read
Full Text Searching (Pt 3 - OpenSearch with ASP.NET Core)
In the previous parts of this series we introduced the concept of full text searching and how it can be used to search for text within a database. In this part we will introduce how to use OpenSearch...
Saturday, 24 August 2024 06:40
//8 minute read
Background Translations Pt. 2
In our previous post here we discussed how we can use EasyNMT to translate our .md files into different languages. We also discussed how we can surface this functionality to the user by adding a...
Friday, 23 August 2024 19:52
//8 minute read
Background Translations Pt. 1
So for a while now I've used EasyNMT to translate my .md files into different languages here. I've wanted to 'surface' this so you can all have a play with it too.
See the second part of this series...
Friday, 23 August 2024 05:38
//4 minute read
Ensuring your IHostedService (or IHostedLifecycleService) is a single instance
This is a dumb little article because I was a bit confused about how to ensure that my IHostedService was a single instance. I thought it was a bit more complicated than it actually was. So I thought...
Thursday, 22 August 2024 16:08
//5 minute read
Adding XSRF for JavaScript
When adding the search box in the prior article, we left out a critical security feature: XSRF protection. This article will cover how to add XSRF protection to the search box.
What is XSRF?
XSRF...
Thursday, 22 August 2024 05:30
//2 minute read
Adding Entity Framework for Blog Posts (Pt 6)
Now that I have this blog running using Entity Framework I can add new posts and languages easily. I just add a new markdown file to the project and check it in. The GitHub action triggers and the...
Tuesday, 20 August 2024 05:45
//3 minute read