This is a quick article about using .NET Core Identity without the standard pages. It was almost titled “why does .NET Core Identity ignore my LoginPath that I set in options?”. Let’s start with a common chunk of code that you’ll find in your Startup.cs file if you’ve added identity to your project… services.AddIdentity<ApplicationUser, ApplicationRole>() […]
These notes will help you to easily collect an audit history on SQL Server tables. There are lots of ways to do this, including options that let you specify the exact table schema you want to use to track the history of changes, but this option is a neat way to get some robust tracking […]
For those of you still keen on using pie charts, let’s embrace those big blobs of colour and do something cool with them. We’re going to unpeel a bunch of them. So, what’s the use of unpeeling pie charts – and how do we do it? Before Unpeeling Before you unpeel a pie chart, you […]
I started to write this from a leadership perspective, but soon realised that this is a general principle that applies at all levels within an organisation. It’s a principle I’m going to call symmetrical professional behaviour. It works like this… whatever formal or informal contracts you use to interact with other people, it needs to […]
Adobe Analytics can sometimes be a bit of an enigma, so people often turn to browser extensions to help them with debugging Adobe Analytics. However, for those of us who spend most of our lives in browser tools; there’s a simple way to get x-ray vision into what Analytics is thinking. Let’s get straight down […]
A common problem with images, especially if they are user-generated, is that they don’t have the correct aspect ratio for their intended purpose. Also, as we re-flow pages for many different devices, we often want the image to work with different aspect ratios. This is where the CSS object-fit property comes in very useful. There […]
If you have been writing websites or web apps for any length of time, you will almost certainly have implemented some form of lazy-loading using JavaScript. I recently worked on a web app that implemented a search that benefitted to the tune of half-a-gig by deferring the loading of images until those images were actually […]
I was working on a search system that needed to simplify the strings for comparison. It needed to compare the text regardless of special characters (diacritic marks) or casing. The following function breaks the special characters into their component parts, before removing the “special” parts and lower-casing the whole thing. function normalise(term) { // Simplifies […]
One of the consitent truths I have found in every development team I have worked with is that there is more work that can possibly be done. A great deal more. For the forseeable future, this will always be the case. I can come up with an innovative new idea by chance one Sunday afternoon. […]
We’re going to use a simple restaurant set-menu example to explore TypeScript types. By the end of this thought-process, we’re going to be able to require one out of two members that are present on a type. Here’s the scenario. You have a set three-course menu. It looks like this: type SetMenu = { starter: […]