SignalR is a technology that allows you to write bi-directional communication between a server and a client. This can lead to some pretty cool interactions, such as a live-updating dashboard on a website, or the ability to communicate requests to a server without building HTTP endpoints. SignalR does a lot of heavy lifting behind the … [Read more…]
Every now and again I find it necessary to set up the request body manually (as opposed to using the [FromBody] tag). In the controller you can read from the request body easily enough: via GIPHY Testing How do you test this? Normally I would just create a controller, call the method, and check the … [Read more…]
Suppose you have some data that comes from a web server somewhere. But, it doesn’t change – so we really only need to fetch it once, and then store the result for easy access (maybe its an Enum that you map to a list of key/value pairs). We can do this easily enough in a … [Read more…]
I hate magic things. In programming, I mean. I try to avoid magic strings and magic numbers as much as possible because I can barely remember the thing I typed five seconds ago, let alone something that you have to maybe type five hours from now. So, I tend to use a lot of enums … [Read more…]
Have you ever wanted to have a web server to just return 200 OK no matter what it is fed? Basically, a web server to just say: No matter what? Recently I was working on a solution that was logging to a server that I didn’t have access to because I wasn’t inside of the … [Read more…]
How many times have you wanted to check the IIS Request Logs to see if anything is going wrong, only to find a bunch of arbitrarily named W3SVx folders because you have more than one website running? And then you open the folder, but all of the log files are also arbitrarily named? And then … [Read more…]
I haven’t done a lot of SEO-type stuff for web development, as a lot of my work has been for intranet applications with no outside face, but today at work I was tasked with fixing some errors that had come up on my client’s Google Search Console. They didn’t know what the errors were, exactly, … [Read more…]