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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
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
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 Super Simple Comment System with Markdown
NOTE: WORK IN PROGRESS
I've been looking for a simple comment system for my blog that uses Markdown. I couldn't find one that I liked, so I decided to write my own. This is a simple comment system...
Tuesday, 06 August 2024 18:50
//2 minute read
Adding Google Auth without ASP.NET Identity Database
In this app I wanted to add a simpple mechanism of allowing login to add comments (and some admin tasks) to the app. I wanted to use Google Auth for this purpose. I did not want to use the ASP.NET...
Monday, 05 August 2024 08:06
//6 minute read
Using Markdown for Blogging
Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents. Created by John Gruber in 2004, Markdown is now one of the world’s most popular...
Friday, 02 August 2024 17:00
//11 minute read
Making your ASP.NET Core Website a PWA
In this article, I'll show you how to make your ASP.NET Core website a PWA (Progressive Web App).
Prerequisites
It's really pretty simple see...
Thursday, 01 August 2024 11:36
//Less than a minute