Part 1 Once again I find myself writing to you after many months have passed. Time goes by so quickly.Many of you might have wondered where I went and what I am up to lately and this post is to give all my readers a quick update as well as to what is coming. The…
DetailsOver the past few years web technologies have progressed significantly. With the introduction of HTM5 and ECMAScript 5/6 (JavaScript) we have seen quite a few interesting new features being introduces such as web workers, web sockets, XMLHttpRequest2, Geolocation and the file api.Todays post is primarily regarding XMLHttpRequest2 and the file api. I have spent quite…
DetailsThis post is about something you don’t see every day anymore. You know, the kindness and old school values you only see in movies.It’s a bit of an unusual post considering most of my posts is about something technology related. Yesterday just as I were about to order my Saturday morning coffee, on the way…
DetailsThis post is about preparing videos for uploading to Azure media service and not so much about media services itself. Since December I have been working on a solution that involves Azure media services. To my surprise it’s actually a lot easier to work with than I imagined, the biggest thing for me was to…
DetailsDuring the last week I was asked to write a windows service, something I have done quite a few times in my career, but this time when I tried to install my service on a test PC it broke with the error “system.invalidoperationexception: unable to get installer types”. The funning thing is that it is…
DetailsFollow my previous post about Web API here is a little bit more on Help Pages and an interesting thing that isn’t mentioned anywhere. For a complete guide on how to enable help pages you can read the post on: http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/getting-started-with-aspnet-web-api/creating-api-help-pages One thing that I have noticed with Web API is that when you are using HttpResponseMessage as…
DetailsToday’s blog post is about ASP.Net Web API. I will demonstrate 2 architectural patterns that I have identified in my experience, the pros and cons of each as well as how your API can be self-documenting using Help Pages. What is Web API? Web API is a standard way of implementing REST services using Microsoft…
DetailsDear blog followers happy 2016, or as we say in SA happy 20, 6 and 1 This blog follows my usual new year kick off blog and I hope that I will be able to bring more interesting blogs and apps in 2016. 2015 in review. 2015 was focused on productivity apps to help developers…
DetailsI always want to post more frequently on my blog, but it seems lately that the only time I get to posting is when I have a new productivity tool to share.Today I want to share a new tool that I created to maintain databases by running multiple batch scripts against it. Sql Batch script…
DetailsTo all my avid readers, I bring to you my Enterprise Framework and POCO generator. This is the next product in my suite of open cross platform apps that makes your life so much better. The POCO generator is an open cross platform tool that can be used to generate your Complete data access entity…
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