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.

jQuery UI Tabs without the ul and li elements

Something really annoys me about jQuery UI and how its markup is laid out, especially around tabs.

Easy (and complex) Search and Replace in Linux Command Line

I wanted to search and replace every file in a directory tree and find a URL that linked to /web-design and remove that part of the URL, and i also wanted to find the phrase “Web Design” in a link and replace it with “Affordable Web Design”.

Usually i would have to go through each individual file via SSH or FTP and then open the file, make the edits, save the file and re-upload the file. The problem with that is, i needed to do this for over 15,000 files on over 3000 web sites, and that isn’t something i wanted to do.