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…]
Password Security The other day my dad was telling me a story about a friend of his whose email address had been compromised, sending out spam emails. He asked me how this would happen and what you could do to prevent it, and I thought it was worth writing down so I could refer other … [Read more…]
Ludum Dare is an over-the-weekend video game creation competition that happens three times per year in April, August, and December. Ludum Dare is latin for “To give a game.” There is no prize for winning – you simply get bragging rights. The competition is to foster creativity and encourage people to make a game. Potential … [Read more…]
As far as backend technologies are concerned, I really like ASP.NET and Web API. It is really easy to set up, and basically anything can talk HTTP. For front end development, I have grown to really really enjoy AngularJS. As far as an IDE is concerned, I really like Visual Studio. The problem that I’ve … [Read more…]
This is part of a somewhat broader topic of unit testing that I will probably cover more in depth later. Unit Testing Authentication on a Web API Controller At work I made a Web API Controller that has a POST method on it to allow someone to forcibly suspend another user’s session. This kind of … [Read more…]
In part one I described how to get a list of removable storage devices (memory cards, USB sticks, etc). In this part, we’re going to be able to pick a memory card and transfer the contents into a catch-all “vault.” Picking out good pictures will come in a later post; for now, we’re just going … [Read more…]
This is Part #1 of a multi-part series on a picture importer I am working on. Picture Importer I’m a (very) amateur photographer. I bought a simple DSLR camera (a Canon EOS REBEL T4i) a few years ago, and since then I’ve been the family photographer at various events. I find that I take a … [Read more…]
If you ever want to pull a version number out of a file’s name (like a NuGet package, for example), it is pretty easy with regex. Of course, I suck at regex. I always need to look up the syntax and even then I probably won’t get it right. So, anyway, here is the code … [Read more…]
moment.js is a library for manipulating dates and times in JavaScript. Since programming basically anything to do with dates and times is a pain (due to time zones, localization information, etc), using a well-established library like moment.js is essential. As with any framework, it is important to read the documentation. In this case, it is … [Read more…]
I am a SignalR junkie. Having an application provide real time updates opens up a ton of opportunities. I would even go as far as to say it is the way things are supposed to be — its a much more natural experience for the user to have pertinent information show up automatically. I usually … [Read more…]