a developer's notebook
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…
In this post, we will showcase the necessary steps to follow in order to de-associate your azure account from any subscription you have joined in the past and you no longer use. Till recently, in order to do so, you had to ask the admin of the subscription to perform this task, however, now, you can do it all by…
HTTP/2 is a major revision of the HTTP network protocol used by the World Wide Web and comes with a promise to make our applications faster, simpler, and more robust by allowing us to undo many of the HTTP/1.1 workarounds previously done within our applications and address these concerns within the transport layer itself. In this post, we will showcase how simple it is to…
In this tutorial we will use Computer Vision service to analyze an image and determine the accent and dominant color and whether the image is black & white or colored. Step 1. Create Computer Vision Service Let’s start by creating the Computer Vision API service. To do so, head over to Azure portal, click on Create Resource link, select AI + Machine…
Something new in Azure App Service’s overview blade, is the addition of a new tool for diagnosing and solving problems. It makes it easier to distinguish issues between your code and platform related problems, and provides some quick solutions, tailored to the problems you might experience. You get a view of the health of your application and platform, as well…
Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. It stores snippets of code and instantly searches offline documentation sets for 200+ APIs, 100+ cheat sheets and more. It helps you keep all the APIs, from the different languages you are using, in a central location. The only problem is that it only runs on Mac OS. However, there is a solution to that,…
If you have an ASP.NET Core web application that already has JWT authorization, this guide will help you add JWT (JSON Web Token) support to the Swagger UI. What is Swagger UI? Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, Javascript and CSS assets that dynamically generates beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API. You can learn more in https://swagger.io/ and in the project’s…
Time Machine is the built-in backup feature for Mac and, to use it, you need an external storage solution that could be an external hard disk or part of a NAS system. One thing to keep in mind is that when your time machine backup disk is not available, local snapshots are created to help Time Machine restore data (more…
