Add custom icons to MudBlazor
Blazor comes with a large library of icons using Material UI, which you can use as standalone icons, or as part of other components like icon buttons, but sometimes you want to use an image which doesn't come included.
There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - Leon Bambrick (@secretGeek)
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Developer Compendium: Functions
Article covering some of the practices and conventions involved in the definition and structure of functions.
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Introduction to request validation in Express.js
A guide detailing the meaning and purpose of request validation in regards to API endpoints, followed by a practical example using Express.js and the express-validator package, built using a project structure aimed at ensuring separation of concerns.
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Introduction to API testing using Postman
Learn how to manage a collection of API endpoints, store variables, switch environments, handle authentication, create requests, and test responses.
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Handling list comparisons in .NET with IEqualityComparer
Compare specific properties between two lists without the need to duplicate foreach blocks, or complicate classes with comparison logic.
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Developer Compendium: Naming
Article covering some of the practices and conventions involved in the naming of things like variables and functions.
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Developer Compendium: Introduction
An introduction to the Developer Compendium series of articles, which aims to discuss some of the key concepts, best practices, and conventions to help developers build amazing software.
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Use AWS CDK to build cloud services into your .NET solutions
Learn how to use the AWS CDK to create resources using your favourite programming language. In the example provided, we'll create the resources required to configure SNS to send an email from a simple website contact form using .NET and JavaScript.
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Use VPC Endpoints to allow communication between resources
Learn how to allow resources from within a VPC to communicate with global resources. We'll go through how to get a Lambda function which interacts with a database in the same VPC to communicate with a service outside the VPC, in this case, by retrieving a connection string stored in Secrets Manager.
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Manage app credentials with AWS Secrets Manager
Learn how to securely store and retrieve application credentials using AWS Secrets Manager via the console and CLI tool.
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Umbraco: Nested Content
Create a social links component in Umbraco. We'll make use of a custom Dropdown, Document Type, Composition and Nested Content, each using a variety of property types.
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Send GitHub Action workflow failure notifications to Slack
Get notified in Slack when your workflows fail, so you can act them promptly.
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Send messages to Slack with a custom workspace app
A look at the options available for sending messages to a Slack workspace, followed by a simple example sending a message to a channel using a Slack app, the Node.js SDK, and only a few lines of code.
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Introduction to Testing with xUnit and NSubstitute
Bolster confidence in the functionality of your application with unit and integration tests, using the popular xUnit package for writing test cases, and NSubstitute for mocking dependency behaviour.
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Diagnosing a vehicle which won't start
Diagnosing a petrol or diesel engine vehicle which won't start by checking the FACTS; fuel, air, compression, timing and spark.
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Register a domain and secure your site with a free SSL certificate
Following on from the previous article which tackles setting up and configuring a LAMP stack WordPress instance, we will now look at registering a domain and securing the website with a free SSL certificate provided by Let's Encrypt.
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Host a .NET website and database on AWS EC2
Configure an AWS EC2 instance and launch an Umbraco/.NET website, backed by an SQL Server Express database and secure with a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate using win-acme.
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Configure and customise the Umbraco Rich Text Editor
Umbraco implements the TinyMCE library for the Rich Text Editor. Many of these features can be customised to your needs, and additional features which are unavailable by default can be enabled manually in the appsettings. We'll look at adding code blocks with syntax highlighting using PrismJS, automatic table of contents, and table element customisation.
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Create a Todo app using Blazor WASM, Auth0 and Contentful
Create a Todo app using Blazor WASM supported by a hosted API in the backend, which handles authentication using Auth0, and performs CRUD operations on data managed by Contentful.
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Create and distribute packages using Github Packages
Create a NuGet package and host it on a public or private Github repository for use with multiple applications.
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Set up a WordPress website in AWS using the LAMP stack
Set up a WordPress website, hosted on an AWS EC2 instance, using the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) stack.
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Host a Blazor WASM app on AWS using S3 and CloudFront
Blazor WASM applications, like many other popular SPAs, run entirely in the browser, meaning you could host an application using nothing more than static storage, saving money on compute power and eliminating the need to run a server 24/7.
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Add AWS CloudWatch logging to your .NET application
Add CloudWatch logging to your .NET Core application.