##Introduction
In my previous post I detailed how to send emails using FluentEmail and the SMTP Client. However one issue with this is the delay in sending emails. SMTP servers tend to be slow and can...
Wednesday, 07 August 2024 08:15
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This is a fairly simple article but will cover some of the odness of using FluentEmail in ASP.NET Core to send HTML emails I haven't seen elsewhere.
The Problem
Sending HTML mails is itself kinda...
Wednesday, 07 August 2024 00:30
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This just popped up on Facebook, an old image of me in my office at Microsoft.
Office at Microsoft
A long long time ago in a country far, far away I was a lowly PMII at Microsoft. I was working on the...
Tuesday, 06 August 2024 21:30
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NOTE: WORK IN PROGRESS
I've been looking for a simple comment system for my blog that uses Markdown. I couldn't find one that I liked, so I decided to write my own. This is a simple comment system...
Tuesday, 06 August 2024 18:50
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In this app I wanted to add a simpple mechanism of allowing login to add comments (and some admin tasks) to the app. I wanted to use Google Auth for this purpose. I did not want to use the ASP.NET...
Monday, 05 August 2024 08:06
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EasyNMT is a locally installable service that provides a simple interface to a number of machine translation services. In this tutorial, we will use EasyNMT to automatically translate a Markdown file...
Saturday, 03 August 2024 13:30
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Mermaid is a simple diagramming format that takes text-based input and generates diagrams in SVG format. It is a great tool for creating flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts, and more. In this...
Friday, 02 August 2024 20:00
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Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents. Created by John Gruber in 2004, Markdown is now one of the world’s most popular...
Friday, 02 August 2024 17:00
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In this article, I'll show you how to make your ASP.NET Core website a PWA (Progressive Web App).
Prerequisites
It's really pretty simple see...
Thursday, 01 August 2024 11:36
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Using HTMX with ASP.NET Core is a great way to build dynamic web applications with minimal JavaScript. HTMX allows you to update parts of your page without a full page reload, making your application...
Thursday, 01 August 2024 03:42
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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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3 minute read
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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4 minute read
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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7 minute read
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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