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Adding a Comment System Part 1 - Setting up the Database

Entity Framework

One of the key aspects of a blogging site like this is a comments system. So, I decided to build one. This is the first part of a series of posts on how to build a comments system. In this post, I...

Monday, 26 August 2024 11:53

6 minute read

(Simple) Unit Testing The Blog Part 1 - Services

Moq Unit Testing xUnit

In this post I'll be starting adding Unit Testing for this site. This won't be a full tutorial on Unit Testing, but rather a series of posts on how I'm adding Unit Testing to this site. In this post I...

Sunday, 25 August 2024 23:00

7 minute read

Background Translations Pt. 3

Alpine.js ASP.NET EasyNMT HTMX WebAPI

In previous articles, we have discussed the importance of translation in the context of web applications. We have also explored the use of the EasyNMT library to perform translations in an ASP.NET...

Sunday, 25 August 2024 03:20

10 minute read

Full Text Searching (Pt 3 - OpenSearch with ASP.NET Core)

ASP.NET OpenSearch

In the previous parts of this series we introduced the concept of full text searching and how it can be used to search for text within a database. In this part we will introduce how to use OpenSearch...

Saturday, 24 August 2024 06:40

8 minute read

Full Text Searching (Pt 2 - Introduction to OpenSearch)

OpenSearch

In the previous parts of this series we introduced the concept of full text searching and how it can be used to search for text within a database. In this part we will introduce OpenSearch, a powerful...

Saturday, 24 August 2024 03:00

5 minute read

Background Translations Pt. 2

ASP.NET EasyNMT

In our previous post here we discussed how we can use EasyNMT to translate our .md files into different languages. We also discussed how we can surface this functionality to the user by adding a...

Friday, 23 August 2024 19:52

8 minute read

Background Translations Pt. 1

ASP.NET EasyNMT

So for a while now I've used EasyNMT to translate my .md files into different languages here. I've wanted to 'surface' this so you can all have a play with it too. See the second part of this series...

Friday, 23 August 2024 05:38

4 minute read

Ensuring your IHostedService (or IHostedLifecycleService) is a single instance

ASP.NET

This is a dumb little article because I was a bit confused about how to ensure that my IHostedService was a single instance. I thought it was a bit more complicated than it actually was. So I thought...

Thursday, 22 August 2024 16:08

5 minute read

Adding XSRF for JavaScript

ASP.NET Javascript

When adding the search box in the prior article, we left out a critical security feature: XSRF protection. This article will cover how to add XSRF protection to the search box. What is XSRF? XSRF...

Thursday, 22 August 2024 05:30

2 minute read

Full Text Searching (Pt 1.1)

Alpine Postgres

In the last article I showed you how to set up a full text search using the built in full text search capabilities of Postgres. While I exposed a search api I didn't have a way to actually use it...

Wednesday, 21 August 2024 20:30

5 minute read

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