posted on July 13, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, Web
Over the weekend, I attended Codestock. One of the sessions that I attended dealt with a subject I had wrestled with myself: eliminating string literals.
While the session focused on HtmlHelper extensions for MVC, I have used the same techniques for building general LINQ expressions, queries, and other useful aspects.
posted on July 7, 2015 by long2know in Web
Earlier today, I was messing with displaying forms within a dialog.
The basic view was split into a 2-column layout with some information on the left and then the actual form elements on the right. My form happens to have a textarea in it. Additionally, the left-hand column can expand to some predefined max-height with a scroll-bar applied. This works well, but it creates a visual problem in that the left-hand column can be taller than the right-hand column and its form elements.
posted on June 22, 2015 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, MVC, Web
After my brief primer (Part 1) of the things I’m looking to accomplish with Angular in what I consider a large-scale application, I’ve had a week or so to toss around ideas and get a solid foundation.
To recap, I want this application to avoid becoming an unruly, behemoth that is unmanageable. I want core, reusable components to be separated from core functionality. That is to say, I want loose coupling. The application should have hooks, navigation, and what not that is self-aware while allowing multiple developers to create their own discrete set of functional areas. In that vein, or to that end, I want “areas” to be independent for the most part and, as such, developers should be able to work on the individual functional areas without stepping all over each other’s code, or worrying much about breaking other parts of the application.
posted on June 16, 2015 by long2know in Web
Earlier today, I was playing around with a web application that I’m working on, and I was reminded that it needs to play nicely with mobile platforms.
So, a colleague of mine reminded me of a handy feature in the Chrome dev tools that I had somehow missed previously, and thought it was worth sharing.
posted on June 12, 2015 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, JavaScript, MVC, Web
This week, my team and I have embarked on a new large scale application. It’s predominately your typical web multi-tier web application with business logic, security, CRUD, and what not.
However, it’s also going to be an Angular Single Page App (SPA). Thinking about the structure of this application, in terms functional blocks and project/solution layout is pivotal in the design and engineering process.
posted on May 27, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, OWIN, Security, Web
With my previous endeavors using OWIN Middleware for an SSO Authentication system, I used DotNetOpenAuth as the client to make the OAuth Authorization Code grant flow. However, after a bit of research, I’ve learned that hooking into the OWIN Middleware can completely eliminate the need to use DotNetOpenAuth.
Additionally, eliminating DotNetOpenAuth and its dependencies makes creating a Nuget reusable package for the applications that I intended to use with the SSO/OAuth2 mechanism much simpler.
posted on May 15, 2015 by long2know in Microsoft, Testing, Web
Earlier today, after a system outage, I was sent a W3C IIS Log to take a look at.
After staring at this log for a few minutes in Notepad2, my eyes started to glaze over. Basically, staring at system or IIS logs with a text editor is useless if there are tons of events or requests.
I knew there are plenty of parsing tools out there for log analysis, and I had used some before. Unfortunately, I had none of these tools installed on my laptop. Googling quick lead me to a Microsoft tool called ‘LogParser’ that I had never heard of before.
posted on May 13, 2015 by long2know in JavaScript, Microsoft, Web
After Ignite, and especially after viewing the the latest features of VS2015 RC, ASP.NET 5.0, and .NET Core 5.0, my interest in Node.js was finally piqued. Admittedly, I had mostly ignored Node.js up to this point. As a primarily Angular/JavaScript developer, the aspect of using JavaScript for server-side is becoming increasing appealing.
Let me preface this by stating that I’m a noob when it comes to node. This really is my first time diving into its feature set.
For a brief history, Node.js is a runtime environment that uses the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine to execute JavaScript on a server. This also provides web hosting and other niceties to run both console apps and web-hosting apps. Spinning up, for example, an API through Node becomes a pretty straight-forward and powerful capability.
posted on May 8, 2015 by long2know in Microsoft, Web
Microsoft Ignite is coming to a close and it’s been a whirlwind week for me.
Overall, the material presented adhered to Microsoft’s agenda of touting Azure, its cloud, and IaaS/PaaS products. Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service are interesting, in and of themselves, but I find that most aren’t ready to jump in with both feet.
posted on April 24, 2015 by long2know in Security, Web
I’ve really enjoyed running WordPress. However, there are a few features that plugin authors overlook or don’t consider. One such problem that I ran into was with the Social Login plugin that I use.
This is a great plugin (Social Login), but it was not loading profile images over HTTPS. While this may not seem like a big deal, it did make it so that a browser would report an issue with my site. This was a bit of a show stopper for me after the effort I put into getting certs/https/etc set up.
Fortunately, thanks to the flexibility of WordPress, and PHP in general, it wasn’t too terribly hard to fix.
