A Blog About Random Computer Subjects
Introduction This is a continuation of the Scaling Horizontally blog posts that I started earlier (see part 1 and part 2). In those articles I used an MMORPG game as an example program/system to scale horizontally. If you read part 2, you’ll remember my discussion on using Redis to store the active map soldiers. In … Read moreQuerying Redis with Lua
Summary I’m going to change it up a bit by rendering some graphics. In this post I’m going to use the Canvas object in HTML5. In the past I’ve written programs to render graphics in SilverLight and when SVG became part of HTML5, I’ve built software that used SVG. I’ve also written software to use … Read moreWorking with HTML5 Canvas
I’ve discussed using the in-memory database object for Entity Framework in the blog post titled: Dot Net Core In Memory Unit Testing Using xUnit. That was for .Net Core 1.1. Now I’m going to show a larger example of the in-memory database object for .Net Core 2.0. There is only one minor difference in the … Read moreUnit Testing EF Data With Core 2.0
Summary In this blog post, I’m going to introduce the JWT (pronounced “jot”) token concept. I’m going to use the code presented in this article (click here) to demonstrate how a token is created and then I’ll discuss the parts of the token and how it is used. Sample Token Using the article code, I … Read moreJWT Tokens
Introduction If you’ve ever written an API and used it in a real-world application, you’ll discover the need to make changes to enhance your software. The problem with changing an API is that once the interface has been published and used by other applications, the end points cannot be changed. The best way to deal … Read moreVersioning Your APIs
Introduction I’ve discussed using the in-memory Entity Framework unit tests in a previous post (here). In this post, I’m going to demonstrate a simple way to use Moq to unit test a method that uses Entity Framework Core. Setup For this sample, I used the POCOs, context and config files from this project (here). You … Read moreUnit Testing EF Data With Moq
Summary In this post, I’m going to explain a couple techniques and tools that every developer should know. If you are just graduating from college and you are looking for a .Net job, learn these simple techniques and advance your career. If you’re a mid-level to advanced .Net developer and you don’t know these tools … Read moreWhat .Net Developers Should Know about MS SQL and IIS
Story I’ve worked for a lot of different companies. Most of them small. Several of the companies that I have worked for have had some serious growth in their user base. Every company I have worked for seem to follow the same path from start-up to mid-sized company. Start-ups usually staffed by amateur programmers who … Read moreDeploying Software
Summary I’ve shown how to generate POCOs (Plain Old C# Objects) using the scaffold tool for .Net Core 1 in an earlier post. Now I’m going to show how to do it in Visual Studio 2017 with Core 2.0. Install NuGet Packages First, you’ll need to install the right NuGet Packages. I prefer to use … Read moreCreating POCOs in .Net Core 2.0
Summary In this post I’m going to show how you can improve developer productivity by steering developers to use scripts where it makes sense. Setting up IIS As a back-end developer, I spend a lot of time standing up and configuring new APIs. One of the tools I use to reduce the amount of man-hours … Read moreUsing Scripts