dotnet BitTorrent library written in C#

System.Net.Torrent is an open source bittorrent scraper and peer wire implementation written in C#

Creating Windows and Linux background services in dotnet core 3.0/3.1

There are times when you need an application to just sit there in the background and deal with the same repetitive task over and over again.

In dotnet core 3.0, a new type of template was introduced, “Worker Service”, which is a very easy way of creating Windows Services and Linux Daemons.

dotnet Core and C# Dependency Injection

This is a short introduction into Dependency Injection for those who are new to dotnet core and C#, with an attempt to explain what it is, and how it works.

dotnet core 3.0 Self Contained Single Executable (and other build optimisations)

Applications feel more optimised when their binaries, or set of binaries are small. With dotnet core 3.0 there are some features built in that help facilitate this.

Adding appsettings.json options to a dotnet core console application

Something that annoyingly does not come as standard in the dotnet core console application template, and, it is not documented anywhere with Microsoft is: appsettings.json. This comes as standard with ASP.NET Core applications, but no other applications, and the thing is, it is very simple to add to any dotnet core application.

Microservices Introduction

Everybody has heard of the term “microservice”, but not many people know what they are, how they work, or how to implement one. Many people think they are a complex system that needs a lot of complex setup and management. In fact, they are a very easy way to remove heavy lifting from your web frontend to a more appropriate place.

Who should we blame?

Something that we all know is that there is a blame culture in business. Something that not many people know is that we don’t need a blame culture in business.

The Battle for Proper Working Hours

For many developers, the normal 9 - 5 shift does not really apply. Development is a creative job, and you cannot force more creativity from more hours.

The Pain of Developing a Xamarin App for OSX and iOS

When developing applications for Windows, even Windows 10 or some flavour of Linux or BSD, you pretty much have free reign over what you want to do. When it comes to Android, iOS and Mac OSX, it is a different story.

PHP Problem with UPLOAD_ERR_PARTIAL (File upload error code 3)

I have just spent the last 3 hours trying to figure out why only ever 3rd file would upload (and then files would only randomly upload) and i continued to get UPLOAD_ERR_PARTIAL. It turns out UPLOAD_ERR_PARTIAL can be caused by the header Connection: Keep-Alive.