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Angular project structure and conventions

posted on March 22, 2015 by in angular, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Web

I’m not one to clutch strongly to ideals, or entrench myself in unrelenting philosophies, but I am a creature of habit.  Most of my web applications over the past year have been Angular based and I have certain proclivities to particular structures in my applications.  My IDE of choice has been Visual Studio 2013, so I take advantage of it and .NET to serve up my base structure.

In dealing with VS2013/.NET, there are some base mechanisms of which I take advantage.  The ones I’d like to discuss are .NET bundling and Nuget.

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ASP.NET Identity (Part 2)

posted on March 20, 2015 by in ASP.NET, Security, Web

Ok, when you title a blog post as Part 1, you better follow up with a Part 2. I hadn’t forgotten, but it’s taken a little to come back around to my adventures with ASP.NET Identity.

Where was I? Oh yeah, last time I discussed how to, mostly, get ASP.NET Identity working with a pre-existing security model. This was working fine for me with the v2.1 Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework packages, but when I updated to the v2.2 packages, things broke.

For whatever reason, the Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework v2.2 packages changed the flow. The v2.1 packages, with my modest code modifications, didn’t seem to go back to the local (EF) database to update/create the current user. But, it may have been performing a check for user existence and then doing a upsert. The v2.2 packages, though, broke this paradigm.

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Late night tinkering

posted on March 20, 2015 by in Web

My relationship with Microsoft, and especially Windows, is a love hate relationship. For some inane reason, Microsoft continues to differentiate their server/desktop products.  Yet, the code bases for those products are, in effect identical.

Microsoft’s separation of product lines ultimately hurts consumers.  We wind up with identical products that are artificially limited.

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Angular Request Interceptors

posted on March 19, 2015 by in angular, JavaScript

Request interceptors in Angular are extremely handy.  They are essentially like jQuery’s global settings for $.ajax requests.  There are some not-so-subtle differences and framework tie-ins as well.

One of the simplest things I like to use request interceptors is for displaying an activity indicator.  My favorite activity indicator is spin.js as well.

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Experiences setting up a web (WordPress) site

posted on March 19, 2015 by in Web

As a developer, I often overlook what infrastructure changes are involved in a setting up a production website.  As a user of free services like FreeDNS / DynDNS, I had never even registered a domain.

Over the past few days, that changed.  In deciding to create this blog, I settled on WordPress.  Getting WordPress set-up and running through Microsoft’s Web Platform installer was actually pretty easy.  However, I soon discovered that it was lacking.

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Angular ui-router

posted on March 19, 2015 by in angular, JavaScript

I’ve been asked a few times why would you use the ui-Router instead of the built-in ngRoute.

I, not so succinctly, explained that it was because it allows for states and nested/hierarchical views.

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ASP.NET Identity (Part 1)

posted on March 18, 2015 by in ASP.NET, Security

As anyone familiar with .NET web development is aware, Microsoft has tried to get security right many times.  We’ve gone from its ubiquitous Membership model to its “simple” providers.  Now, the latest, albeit it’s been around for a while, is its Identity framework.

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Welcome..

posted on March 16, 2015 by in Uncategorized

This is my “hello world” first blog post.  My blog will be, mostly, about software development.  But, I am an avid runner, so don’t be surprised if a few posts about running or other random stuff creep in…