I'm starting to think that Swashbuckle and Swagger UI should be mandatory on all Web API applications going forward. I love this framework so much right now, so I wanted to make a very brief blog post about it. It's saved me so much time and throw away code. Recently I was working on a small [...]
I recently had a client transfer their DNSSEC enabled domain to another registrar. Everything appeared to transfer as expected, but they noticed several global users having DNS resolution issues. This was strange because: The domain appeared to resolve fine for 90% of the world, using DNS propagation utilities to determine how DNS was propagating globally. DNSSEC [...]
Currently the Nuget Package Visualizer is not available in VS2015. (https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/1264) We like to use this tool to get a good overview of our Nuget package dependencies. It can also be helpful when troubleshooting build issues, specifically with retrieving packages. Using Pascal's code as a good base to start from (thanks!), I created a Nuget Package [...]
Log4Net is a very powerful, easy to use logging tool, so it's no surprise that so many .NET developers use it in their applications. One under documented (at least in my opinion) feature of it, is the use of filters to be more specific about what you want your appenders to filter out. Recently, in an application [...]
I needed a way to escape special regex characters in a string. These characters include the following: ".", "$", "^", "{", "[", "(", "|", ")", "*", "+", "?", "\\" . This list was obtained from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4edbef7e(v=vs.110).aspx Here is a small string extension method that will accomplish this: Edit*- 1/24/13 - I didn't realize there was a built in [...]
I wanted to be able to select sequential elements from a list based on a specified predicate. I needed to be able to include or exclude the begin and end elements as well. Here is how I made use of Linqs skipWhile and takeWhile extensions to do this: Selecting matching elements, including the start and end [...]
I use VisualSVN at work and I love it! It saves clicks and times when developing with Visual Studio and SVN. Recently my SVN context menu seemingly went missing from Visual Studio, causing me a bunch of confusion. (Menu pictured below was not appearing when right clicking a file in my solution) Fix: To see [...]
If you find yourself in a situation where you need to move all your client's IMAP folders and messages over to a new server, it might prove to be trickier than you think. At least for me it was. I must of been Googling the wrong thing, but I was not seeing many straight forward solutions [...]
I shouldn't have to tell you that backups for your data is crucial, especially your mySql databases. They can power anything from your eCommerce store to your WordPress installation. There are numerous ways to automate this process, but I recently came across one that I really like. Introducing MySqlDumper, a free, web-based mySql backup utility written [...]
Quick post here for a utility I find myself using quite a bit: When doing web design you will inevitably come to a situation where you want to take a look at several different shades of a base hexadecimal color code. Say, for example, you're working on a client's site, and their company color is a [...]
