blog
My blog of techy stuff, ranging around SQL (SQL Server, that is), C# and .net, JavaScript and a smattering of stuff about the Orchard CMS (that powers my site) as I get more familiar with it. There's the occasional non-technical post when something is of interest to me that I feel is worth sharing, but they should be few and far between
-
Making the PJS.Bootstrap theme work with Orchard 1.10.x
The PJS.Bootstrap theme, along with several other themes and modules doesn't work when combined with Orchard 1.10.x, with the orchard-debug-YYYY-MM-DD.log files generated in ~/App_Data/Logs …
-
Using SQL Server CLR to add "earliest" and "latest" aggregate functions
Whilst there are undoubtedly very funky ways to achieve the same result, many moons ago I wrote a couple of SQL CLR aggregate functions for retrieving the earliest and latest values for a given …
-
Using MiniProfiler with a hybrid asp.net Web Forms / MVC application - Part 3
Previous parts:
Part 1 - Installing MiniProfiler and showing the UI
Part 2 - Hooking MiniProfiler into an MVC controller
Controlling when MiniProfiler is visible
More often than not, you won' …
-
Using MiniProfiler with a hybrid asp.net Web Forms / MVC application - Part 2
Part 1 covered creating a hybrid ASP.NET WebForms / MVC project, adding MiniProfiler to the project, showing MiniProfiler output on the WebForms page and adding an event to the MiniProfiler output. …
-
Using MiniProfiler with a hybrid asp.net Web Forms / MVC application - Part 1
If you've got an application, like we have, that uses asp.net Web Forms for the UI components and MVC (5) for the endpoints that are used by JavaScript to retrieve/save data, it's still posible to …
-
2017-08 update for Windows 10 Anniversary Update ("1607") breaks WSUS
NOTE: Microsoft appear to have resolved this issue with a new update for Windows 10, see here for details.
We've discovered that (now listed as a known issue in the Windows 10 Update History) the …
-
[Non-Tech] Usable instructions for descaling Sage "the Oracle" coffee machine
Totally non-techy post ahead:
The instructions in the provided manual for the Sage "by heston blumenthal" the Oracle cofee machine that are supposed to guide you through de-scaling the machine are …
-
Adding the "msvalidate.01" tag required by bing to Orchard
In order to validate my ownership for Bing Webmaster Tools, I need to add the tag
<meta name="msvalidate.01" content="CA6A83218C1ED72C9E6EF7298BA5549D" />
to the markup for my homepage.
After a …
-
Using postMessage to implement an inter-frame API
One of the products I work on allows users to host individual web pages inside frames within it. Whilst working on a proof-of-concept a while ago, I stumbled acros the postMessage method which …
-
A standardised warning banner in Orchard
In the posts I've written about creating a certificate authority and SSL certificates for use in a Dev/Test environment (part 1, part 2), I wanted to have a standard banner at the top of them that …