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An Alpine.js and HTMX 'Clear Query String Parameter(s)' tag helper for ASP.NET Core

Alpine.js ASP.NET Core HTMX Javascript

Just a quick one, I had a need in a work project for the ability to 'clear' URL parameters from a URL. This is useful when you have a URL with multiple parameters, and you want to remove one or more...

Friday, 25 April 2025 23:00

7 minute read

An Auto-Update Partial Updater with Alpine.js and HTMX

Alpine.js ASP.NET Core HTMX Javascript

So in what's becoming a series, in a work project I wanted to add the ability for a partial to auto-update on a given timescale. Here's how I did it using Alpine.js and HTMX. Requirements So I wanted...

Wednesday, 23 April 2025 19:30

7 minute read

Using SweetAlert2 for HTMX Loading indicators (hx-indicator)

HTMX Javascript

On a work project I've been using and abusing HTMX to build an admin UI. As part of this I'm using the lovely SweetAlert2 Javascript library for my confirmation dialogs. It works great but I also...

Monday, 21 April 2025 20:05

13 minute read

Showing Toast and Swapping Content with HTMX (And ASP.NET Core)

ASP.NET Core HTMX

HTMX is a great library for making your web applications more dynamic and responsive. In this post, I'll show you how to use HTMX to show a toast notification and swap content on the page. One of the...

Saturday, 12 April 2025 13:33

8 minute read

A Paging View Component ASP.NET Core Tag Helper (Part 2, PageSize)

ASP.NET Core PagingTagHelper TagHelper

As part of my ongoing sage with my paging tag helper I have now separated out PageSize into its own tag helper. This is to make the tag helper more flexible and to allow for more complex paging...

Tuesday, 25 March 2025 22:12

7 minute read

An Apology about my Nuget Package

ASP.NET PagingTagHelper Random

Well I've been playing with a nuget package for doing paging stuff in ASP.NET and well I never thought there'd be 1.7k downloads. I thoght not making a 1.0 version would make it clear that it was a...

Thursday, 20 March 2025 21:30

1 minute read

A Paging View Component ASP.NET Core Tag Helper (Part 1.1, kinda sorta...A Flippy Tag Helper)

ASP.NET Core PagingTagHelper TagHelper

So while building out a project I originally built the paging tag helper for I also cam across ANOTHER need. A way to easily build sorting functionality for a table of results with HtMX...

Monday, 17 March 2025 22:12

7 minute read

A Paging View Component ASP.NET Core Tag Helper (Part 1 the Bare-Bones)

ASP.NET Core PagingTagHelper TagHelper

A work project the other day necessitated implementing paging form results. My go-to paging tag helper has always been the pagination Tag Helper by Darrel O'Neill as I wrote about here however for...

Tuesday, 11 March 2025 17:12

14 minute read

When Your Customers Don't Pay; on time or AT ALL (a contractor's life pt. 2)

Freelancing

In my previous post I spoke about the difficulties of being a contractor and how sometimes you can be left high and dry when a customer doesn't pay. This can happen for a few reasons; They CANNOT pay...

Tuesday, 12 November 2024 06:30

11 minute read

Working on Legacy Codebases (or a contractor's life)

Legacy Code

As a freelance developer one of the skill-sets you need to learn quickly is how to work on existing codebases effectively. I've been lucky to have built a bunch of from--scratch systems; this is a JOY...

Wednesday, 06 November 2024 22:30

17 minute read

On Logging in ASP.NET Applications (Part 1...probably)

ASP.NET C# Logging Serilog

Logging is OF COURSE a critical part of applications however I often see it misunderstood / misused in ASP.NET applications. This is part post and part manifesto on how to effectively log in ASP.NET...

Sunday, 27 October 2024 17:00

10 minute read

Blog Update

Blog

You may noticed my frantic frequency of posts (I was at two a day for a while month!) has slowed down of late so I thought I'd give a quick update. NOTE: Translation seems to have broken along the...

Saturday, 12 October 2024 14:40

2 minute read

Resume | Scott Galloway | .NET Developer | Remote

introduction Resume

I'm a versatile and accomplished developer and lead with an over 25 year track record building teams and platforms and revitalising startups. Proficient in C#, ASP.NET, and modern web frameworks, with...

Sunday, 29 September 2024 22:30

6 minute read

A Copy Button For Highlight.js

DaisyUI Highlight.js Javascript Tailwind

In this site I use Hightlight.js to render code snippets client side. I like this as it keeps my server side code clean and simple. However, I wanted to add a copy button to each code snippet so that...

Saturday, 28 September 2024 14:15

5 minute read

Custom Config Section Extensions

ASP.NET C#

It seems like everyone has a version of this code, I first came across this approach from Filip W and recently my old colleague Phil Haack has his version. Just for completion this is how I do...

Friday, 27 September 2024 06:20

4 minute read

A Newsletter Subscription Service Part 2 - Refactoring the Services (and a little Hangfire)

ASP.NET Email Newsletter Hangfire

In part 1 of this series I showed you how I created a new Newsletter Subscription page. In this part I'll cover how I restructured the solution to allow for sharing of Services and Models between the...

Monday, 23 September 2024 10:45

7 minute read

A Newsletter Subscription Service Pt. 1 - Requirements and Subscription Page

Alpine.js ASP.NET Email Newsletter

While perusing other people's blogs I noticed a lot of them have a subscription service which allows users to sign up to have an email sent to them weekly with the posts from that blog. I decided to...

Saturday, 21 September 2024 19:06

11 minute read

Querying Postgres Data in Grafana

Grafana Postgres Umami

In a previous post I detailed how I added Grafana to my docker-compose to provide insights into performance for this site. As I have Umami on here AND self host the database for that in this post I'l...

Thursday, 19 September 2024 19:30

2 minute read

Freelancing and disappointment

Freelancing

IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A DEVELOPER / LEADER PLEASE CONTACT ME I've been a freelance developer for more than a decade now (since I left Microsoft really). For the most part it's been perfect for me. I...

Thursday, 19 September 2024 18:30

2 minute read

Using Grafana and Prometheus to Monitor ASP.NET Core 8+ Applications

ASP.NET Docker Grafana Prometheus

Monitoring is an essential part of maintaining the health and performance of your applications. I already have this site monitoring user visits using Umami and exceptions and errors using Seq but now...

Wednesday, 18 September 2024 04:45

6 minute read