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The simplest ASP.NET Core app that'll serve static content
NOTE: This post is targeting .NET Core / ASP.NET Core 2.0, not 1.x
I have a confession to make, I've not spent much time or energy looking into the ins and outs of .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Entity …
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Link Dump
Another collection of odds and ends, of dubious use to anyone but me, but perhaps of interest!
Proper Dependency injection in Azure Functions on function level with scoped services!
A blog post …
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Loading the "admin" menu on a Core install of Windows Server
This post is mainly (ok, entirely) a reminder to myself that in order to load the "admin menu"
That is available in Windows Server core installs, the command to run is
sconfig
(This post will …
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Storing metadata against Azure Storage Blobs
I've known for a while that you can associate aribitrary metadata with Azure Storage Blobs, docs.microsoft.com has Set and retrieve properties and metadata which gives an example of setting …
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The PowerShell Out-GridView cmdlet
There's a PowerShell cmdlet that I've seen before, but it's never quite lodged itself in my brain sufficiently for me to remember it and use it. It's Out-GridView and it's something that won't be of …
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Using the Azure Storage Emulator
As I'm gearing up to continue my series of posts on the subject of migrating an application to Azure, one of the things that occured to me was that the existing implementation has unit tests. …
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Opserver - several different kinds of cool
A year or so ago I discovered Opserver, a monitoring system/solution built by the guys at Stack Exchange (i.e. those who built Stack Overflow and all its sibling Q&A sites) that can monitor a …
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Installing code to Orchard directly from GitHub
I recently had a question land in the comments on my post about making the PJS.Bootstrap theme work with Orchard 1.10.x, where Abner asked:
I am new to orchard development so please mind the noob …
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Migrating an application to Azure - Part 1: Introduction
Way back in the mists of time (ok, 2011 so not exactly the age of the dinosaur!) I built an employee recognition and reward platform for an FTSE 100 company. Why's that even remotely interesting, I …
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Enabling Social Meta Tags in Orchard
I've been sharing some of the content I've written via LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook - mainly reserving the recipes I've been putting together for Facebook and the more technical / professional …
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Link Dump
Another of those very lazy posts where I'm sharing links to content by other people, other content that I want to be able to refer back to in the future, admittedly!
Using LinqPad to open SQL CE 4.0 …
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Interviewing with Microsoft
As I made reference to in Who you know, versus what you know and My "Hit Refresh" moment, I interviewed with Microsoft a few months ago for an Application Development Manager role. This is a …
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Making my images play nicely with mobile devices
It was pointed out to me earlier today that whilst the carousel on my home page scales and looks right on everything from desktops to mobile phones, the "top-hat" images I've been including in posts …
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Guides to module building in Orchard
Since I added a carousel to my homepage, I've been working towards turning this into an Orchard module so that I can (a) share it with others, and (b) use it as an opportunity to learn how to put …
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It's perfectly okay to say "I don't know, let's research this together."
This tweet:
As a senior engineer or a technical team lead, it's perfectly okay to say "I don't know, let's research this together."
— Celestine Omin (@cyberomin) October 3, 2017
Along with …
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Bootstrapping a carousel onto my homepage
I've been very (very) aware that the homepage of my site is very text heavy, consisting of a list of the most recent blog posts from techy me and cooking me. Over the past couple of weeks I've poked …
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A quick and dirty query to find titles of Orchard blog posts that match criteria in SQL
I noticed earlier today that the number of "structured data" items Googles Webmaster Tools was reporting it had found on my website had dropped. Given that I'm continually adding new recipes (albeit …
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Orchard "shape tracing"
A very quick, and short, post to point to a feature of Orchard called "Shape Tracing" that allows you to work out how a page is composed, and what views you'd need to create (and indeed it will …
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Adding a summary to Orchard blog posts - refining the code
After putting together my post yesterday about adding a Summary field to blog posts, Sébastien Ros dropped a comment pointing out a tidier way to access the Summary property, giving this:
post. …
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Adding a summary to Orchard blog posts
One of the things I like about ths blogs hosted at MSDN is that the blog owner can elect to have something different displayed under each post in a listing, instead of the CMS just taking the first N …
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Who you know, versus what you know
I've recently been reflecting on the past, no bad thing as there's a lot that can be learnt from looking back to what's gone before, after all there's that oft mis-quoted aphorism attributed to …
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Link Dump
Quite how I end up with such an eclectic collection of open tabs, I'll never know, but this mixed bag may be of interest to someone else!
Dumping Git Data from Misconfigured Web Servers
This one's …
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Backing up SVN to Azure Storage
Related posts:
Backing up SQL Server to Azure storage - doing it the long way round
Until such time as I finally get round to the item on my TO DO list that's all about replacing my on-prem SVN …