ImageSharp is a great library for working with images in .NET. It's fast, easy to use, and has a lot of features. In this post, I'll show you how to use ImageSharp with Docker to create a simple image...
Thursday, 01 August 2024 01:00
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Cloud free systems for startups.
First I am NOT saying that the cloud is somehow evil or unnecessary just that for many startups it can be unnecessary / expensice for
either your main or dev / test...
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 13:30
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This is a simple example of how to use GitHub Actions to build and push a docker image to a container registry.
Prerequisites
A docker file exists for the project you want to build and push.
A GitHub...
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 13:30
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Dev models for Web Applications
In my LONG (30 year) history of building web applications there have been many ways to build a web app.
Pure HTML 1990-> - the very first (if you ignore BBS / text...
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 13:30
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Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. With Compose, you use a YAML file to configure your application's services. Then, with a single command, you...
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 13:30
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Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs. It is a highly customizable, low-level CSS framework that gives you all of the building blocks you need to build...
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 13:30
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Found through a comment on Jon Galloway's blog (no relation), this site has a whole bunch of nice little client side controls including a particularly nice calendar control. Anyway, thought I'd post...
Wednesday, 08 September 2010 00:00
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Well, OK I’m over dramatizing it a tad :) As you may have noticed from my last post I’ve started working of some stuff which is outside my comfort zone. I recently joined a company called...
Monday, 16 August 2010 00:00
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Just been reading on Matt Bethers blog on a technique by Már Örlygsson on a great way of doing popups (disclaimer: I know, popups are evil...fall of civilization...STDs etc....), which if you...
Monday, 05 July 2010 00:00
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Just realised how few people use these (quick office poll on the use of Windows-D
to minimise all windows...) So, have a look at this shortcut
key list
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Sunday, 27 June 2010 00:00
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Ok, not a catchy title but it really is what I’ve been up to for the past 3 months. As I wrote before, I’m currently...
Saturday, 17 April 2010 00:00
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CAUTION: When I say hack I mean it…this is in NO WAY production ready…it’s just a sample at this stage. If it causes your dog to explode, don’t blame me!
I thought I’d throw a work in progress online...
Thursday, 25 March 2010 00:00
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When we were adding WebForm routing to ASP.NET 4 Beta 1, we didn’t have a chance to add in a couple of methods which make working with Routes and Web Forms a lot easier!
Note: the code below is...
Sunday, 14 March 2010 00:00
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Just discovered this, a collection of links to amazingly interesting C# projects.
I love the idea of SourceFTP which essentially gives you 'SourceSafe - like' access to FTP - so you can share stuff...
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 00:00
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Messing around with this stuff of late, @TheCodeJunkie requested it so here’s a really simple way to get a location and show a map :). This version uses the W3C Geolocation API on browsers that...
Sunday, 28 February 2010 00:00
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ViewState is a pain…there, I’ve said it! What causes the most pain with ViewState is the fact that people misuse it a lot, leaving it enabled for every control in a page when in fact you only really...
Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:00
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Another interesting item was linked from the Slashdot post on this , so why eactly was IE7 being released again ;-):
JENNINGS: I read an article coming up here on Firefox (Web browser) and its...
Thursday, 08 January 2009 00:00
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The Code Project - Indigo Transactional Web Services using Microsoft WinFX CTP March 2005 - C# WebServices
Very cool stuff…get the feeling that .NET 1.1 was just a prelude
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Wednesday, 07 January 2009 00:00
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Well, I'm finally going to have to wipe my main workstation and reinstall - is it just me or is there always the creeping doubt that you've forgot to back something up? I was just reading a post on...
Thursday, 20 November 2008 00:00
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Well, had a lovely break...now for some code, this will let you 'impersonate' a user - really handy when, for instance, trying to upload a file to a network location...as usual, no idea where I found...
Monday, 06 October 2008 00:00
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