Thoughts on software development and other random topics
I recently ran into an issue where we were hosting css, fonts and image files on a single site so that other sites on the intranet could access and use those shared resources. We had already enabled CORS in the web.config using: <system.webServer> <httpProtocol> <customHeaders> <add name=”Access-Control-Allow-Origin” value=”*” /> </customHeaders> </httpProtocol> </system.webServer> Plus we reset […]
Developers sometimes use the Cache property in a HttpContext to store data across sessions. This is so that you don’t have pull static data from a data store over and over and just pull it once and store it in the HttpContext. If you do unit testing for your Controllers, then you’ll eventually run into […]
Recently I had to sort out how to create a HTTPS binding for a site hosted on IIS version 7.5 on a Windows 2008R2 Server. To do this, I had to have the Certificate installed already and the Website already up and running. Courtesy of the content in these links at the bottom of the […]
Our dev team here has learned a lot over the years courtesy of our partners at ThoughtWorks: Test Driven Development Continuous Integration Agile Development Processes and lots of other good stuff! Today I wanted to talk about Cake (http://cakebuild.net/) which is the C# “equivalent” of Rake, which we’ve been using for years here. Rake has […]
I installed the preview version of dotnet core 2.0 while at Build 2017 and my Mac didn’t like it very much (running OS X 10.1.6). Thankfully the guys manning the Github project have a script to remove all the versions, which allows me to then re-install the correct version. The script can be found here: […]
VS Code aka @code has been a FANTASTIC addition in the race for awesome text editor + IDE for everything. Thanks to the fact that it was built on Electron it works pretty much everywhere! I’m a C# developer but I use a Mac Powerbook for my personal usage. It’s not the most affordable or […]
As long time Microsoft developer, since 2002 when .Net Framework 1.0 made it’s debut, I’ve been fairly happy with where .Net was going. It seemed like it would correct a lot of the issues that Java seemed to have at the time and looked like a platform that had a lot of promise. Steve Ballmer […]