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...
In the last article I showed you how to set up a full text search using the built in full text search capabilities of Postgres. While I exposed a search api I didn't have a way to actually use it...
Searching for content is a critical part of any content heavy website. It enhances discoverability and user experience. In this post I'll cover how I added full text searching for this site
Next parts...
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...
In a previous post we added a client for fetching Umami analytics data. In this post we will add a client for sending tracking data to Umami from a C# application.
Umami is a lightweight analytics...
One thing I thought it would be fun to add is a way to look at the markdown for the articles on the site with a live rendering of the markdown. This is a simple markdown editor that uses SimpleMDE and...
See parts 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 for the previous steps.
Introduction
In previous parts we covered how to set up the database, how our controllers and views are structured, how our services worked, and...
See parts 1 and 2 and 3 for the previous steps.
Introduction
In previous parts we covered how to set up the database, how our controllers and views are structured, and how our services worked. In this...
In any web application it's important to handle errors gracefully. This is especially true in a production environment where you want to provide a good user experience and not expose any sensitive...
You can find all the source code for the blog posts on GitHub
Parts 1 & 2 of the series on adding Entity Framework to a .NET Core project.
Part 1 can be found here.
Part 2 can be found...
You can find all the source code for the blog posts on GitHub
Part 2 of the series on adding Entity Framework to a .NET Core project.
Part 1 can be found here.
Introduction
In the previous post, we...
Imtroduction
In this post, I will show you how to create a C# client for the Umami reporting API. This is a simple example that demonstrates how to authenticate with the API and retrieve data from...
ImageSharp is a powerful image processing library that allows you to manipulate images in a variety of ways. ImageSharp.Web is an extension of ImageSharp that provides additional functionality for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
