Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents. Created by John Gruber in 2004, Markdown is now one of the world’s most popular markup languages. On this site I use a super simple approach to…
In this article, I'll show you how to make your ASP.NET Core website a PWA (Progressive Web App). Prerequisites It's really pretty simple see https://github.com/madskristensen/WebEssentials.AspNetCore.ServiceWorker/tree/master ASP.NET Bits Install the Nuget…
Using HTMX with ASP.NET Core is a great way to build dynamic web applications with minimal JavaScript. HTMX allows you to update parts of your page without a full page reload, making your application feel more responsive and interactive. It's what I used to…
ImageSharp is a great library for working with images in .NET. It's fast, easy to use, and has a lot of features. In this post, I'll show you how to use ImageSharp with Docker to create a simple image processing service. What is ImageSharp? ImageSharp enables…
Cloud free systems for startups. First I am NOT saying that the cloud is somehow evil or unnecessary just that for many startups it can be unnecessary / expensice for either your main or dev / test systems. Why use cloud based services? Admin...this is my…
This is a simple example of how to use GitHub Actions to build and push a docker image to a container registry. Prerequisites A docker file exists for the project you want to build and push. A GitHub repository exists for the project. A container registry…
Dev models for Web Applications In my LONG (30 year) history of building web applications there have been many ways to build a web app. Pure HTML 1990-> - the very first (if you ignore BBS / text based systems) mechanism for building web apps was Plain Old…
Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. With Compose, you use a YAML file to configure your application's services. Then, with a single command, you create and start all the services from your configuration. At…
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs. It is a highly customizable, low-level CSS framework that gives you all of the building blocks you need to build bespoke designs without any annoying opinionated styles you have…
Found through a comment on Jon Galloway's blog (no relation), this site has a whole bunch of nice little client side controls including a particularly nice calendar control. Anyway, thought I'd post the link for future reference :-) - oh and here's Matt…