a developer's notebook
A thing that really bothers me in Windows, and I believe many would agree, is the lack of UI consistency in Windows applications and components. Although applications implemented with the new Fluid Design System in mind have some very minimal scrollbars that don’t use much of valuable space, there are still a lot of apps, especially the ones built with…
Chrome Dev Tools is undoubtedly a very powerful set of web developer tools, built directly into the Chrome browser that helps you with your day-to-day work on building, debugging and optimizing web applications. To launch Chrome Dev Tools you simply right click on any web page that you are working and select Inspect or press Cmd+Alt+I on a mac or Ctrl+Alt+I…
Recently, in a project, we had to extract the values from a large collection of objects and, while the easiest way to do so was to use the native Object.values()method, which returns an array of a given object’s own enumerable property values, we noticed some performance issues. So, we started measuring the performance of this method compared to some other…
ASP.NET Core Identity uses default values for settings such as password policy, lockout, and cookie configuration. These settings can be overridden in the Startup class. By default the Password Policy has the following options: RequireDigit: (default: true) Requires a number between 0-9 in the password. RequiredLength: (default: 6) The minimum length of the password. RequireLowercase: (default: true) Requires a lowercase character…
Let’s assume you have started experimenting with Azure Functions and, for your first app, you have chosen the Azure Portal as your development environment. You have created a new Azure Function by clicking the Plus icon next to your Azure Function name, selected In-portal from the first step of the wizard, and from the second screen you picked the Webhook…
In this post we will talk about all the necessary steps to build and deploy an Angular web application to a static website hosting container in Azure Storage using Azure DevOps. Step 1. Setup a GitHub Repository & commit a sample Angular App To start with, you need to create a new repository in GitHub and push an Angular application…
JavaScript, and the tools around it, have advanced a lot during the last couple of years. So, below you will see few tips and tricks that I find useful in my day-to-day development workflow, in regards to console logging. 01. Custom Css Styling in your console log statements You can add custom styling to your log statements using the %c attribute….
Azure Storage is a cloud storage solution for data storage scenarios and one key service, among others, is Azure Blobs, a scalable object store for text and binary data. A main use is to upload files to it, either as a long term backup solution, or as a way to serve documents, images and videos directly to a browser. To do so, you…
The information you send on the Internet is passed from computer to computer to get to the destination server. The least you can do to provide privacy, critical security and data integrity for both your websites and your users’ personal information is to have your application secured under an SSL certificate. SSL providers need to set up a trusted infrastructure…
One new feature recently announced, and currently in public preview, is the ability to host your own static website on Azure Storage, a solution which is more cost-effective than the traditional Azure App Service. In this post we will see the necessary steps to follow in order to enable web site hosting functionality on Azure Storage and, as a proof…
