I needed to get a history of completed pull requests from Azure DevOps and the simplest way to do this was to call the Azure DevOps REST API from a PowerShell script. The examples below assume you have already created a Personal Access Token, which you can get from the User Settings menu in Azure […]
This post started as a scratch pad as I was looking at helping a colleague implement WEBP images with a JPG fallback for older browsers. They had an issue in modern browsers because the fallback image was being loaded in all cases. Here’s a code example and demo: <picture> <source height=”500″ width=”500″ src=”webp.webp” type=”image/webp”> <source […]
We have a multi-tenant website that allows a single app to be deployed to a web farm to manage requests for ~1,000 different websites. Content and themes are looked up based on the host name. Traditionally, we used a component list to customise the HTML served for each theme, where you could set specific components […]
When you want to limit text on your web page, you really want to show an ellipsis to let people know you’ve truncated the display. This is especially true in cases where the cut-off decided by the browser might cause confusion, alarm, or blushing. Consider the text “Get offers on shoes”, which could be displayed […]
The short version on the difference between AddDefaultIdentity and AddIdentity is the default part adds in all the built-in controllers and views for logging in, recovering accounts, and password resets but doesn’t add roles. You can, though, add roles to AddDefaultIdentity to get all the things. AddDefaultIdentity This examples shows how to add the default […]
If you are dealing with Windows Task Scheduler, you will almost certainly benefit from being able to automate tasks using PowerShell. Here are some useful tricks to get you started. We’ll use a scenario where we want to re-create a Task Schedule automatically, which will involve: Stopping the task if it exists Removing the task […]
Either this is new, or it has been a long time since I last had to write a date out. Either way, I wanted to share the improvements I found had been made to Visual Studio when you decide to .ToString a date/time in your code. It’s a pretty common occurrence to write a message […]
Pipelines are an interesting way to implement your code to prevent complex inter-relationships between components. Having used pipelines on some simple synchronous code, I wanted to see what happens when you try it with async code. Using a real app is a useful way to explore this, but I warn you now; there are some […]
There is a long-standing brute-force issue with the WordPress /xmlrpc.php file. You can (and probably should) switch this off in your website using an .htaccess rule. This stops the requests, but uses up your server resources to check and reject them. If you have Cloudflare, you can stop them at the firewall, which means your […]
Justin Etzine had a thought about Engineer’s Lunch Law, which he described in the following terms. I have a theory. Call it: Engineer’s Lunch Law. If you get lunch at 11 instead of noon, you can enjoy an hour of uninterrupted productivity from 12-1. – Justin Etzine via Twitter Etzine’s Law There is something about […]