Adventures in Migrating WordPress to Ghost Blog I recently decided to migrate my blog from WordPress to Ghost Blog and I discovered a few nuggets of wisdom along the way. There are many reasons why I decided to move from WordPress to Ghost Blog, and there are many opinions about this subject on the web, so I
AngularJS Featured AngularJS CRUD Application with ASP.NET Core Web API I have been delving more into ASP.NET Core lately and I wanted to see how different things were from the .NET 4.6 version, so I decided to see what it would be like to code a very simple Web API using ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework 7.
AngularJS Featured AngularJS Single Page App with Azure AD and TypeScript In a previous example I showed how to secure an HTML5 application with Azure [https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/] AD using JavaScript as the target programming language. However, the imminent release of AngularJS 2 also means that TypeScript [http://www.typescriptlang.org/] is going to become more mainstream IMO. So
Visual Studio Code Exercising On The Promise of Cross Platform Development The release of Visual Studio Code [https://code.visualstudio.com/] as a new Microsoft product has been a welcoming change for me, mainly because now I have a means to develop on both: Mac & PC. I am finding that I am often developing the same code on my MacBook Pro
AngularJS Securing an AngularJS application with Azure AD So far we have seen a few samples of single page applications that are secured by Azure AD [https://github.com/Azure-Samples/active-directory-angularjs-singlepageapp], however, those samples are usually setup to run in Visual Studio and IIS which when you are building a JavaScript front end application may not be always
Azure AD Azure AD and ASP.NET Core Now that the imminent release of ASP.NET Core [http://www.asp.net/core]is here [https://github.com/aspnet/Home/wiki/Roadmap] I felt that it was time for me to check out once again how everything has been integrated specially with regards to Azure AD [https://azure.microsoft.
Featured Rolling Your Own Cloud As engineers we get a thrill out of building new and exciting things. However, the search for exciting and new uncharted territories, at least uncharted as far as we know, can lead us down a path of rediscovery as we find out that we are not the first ones to
ASP.NET Web API 2 Featured Uploading a file with Web API and Cloud Storage By now this is nothing new, but then again this topic of file uploads does seem to continue coming up once in a while. In this post I would simply like to share a few tips for handling file uploads using ASP.NET Web API2 and Azure Blob Storage. There
AngularJS How to call an ASP.NET Web API secured by Azure AD from an AngularJS Single Page App Data breaches, they are an unfortunate and sadly too common occurrence these days. Seems like not a few weeks or days go by before we hear of yet another data breach. Take for instance this article outlining some of the companies that lost your data in 2015: http://www.zdnet.
Git From TFVC to Git on VSTS In the previous post we talked about strategies for migrating your TFVC source code hosted in an on-premise TFS server and into a VSTS account hosted by Microsoft. So before you consider moving on with TFVC you might want to consider having a look at Git. Granted that you have
Blogging Why I Decided To Start My Own Blog... I had been reading other people’s technical blogs for quite a while before I decided to start my own blog. I always felt that I needed to start a blog but I didn’t necessarily knew how or what I would write about. In fact, even though my mind
Spring into the Cloud The Cloud, if there was ever a term that carried so many connotations with it in the technology world during the last few years, The Cloud would be #1. Nevertheless, the fact remains that The Cloud is here to stay and its grip on everyday technological decisions only gets stronger.
Visual Studio 2015 Debugging Features Highlights Visual Studio 2015 has been released and it comes packed with fun new features ( https://www.visualstudio.com/features/ ) that are bound to make your development experience better than ever. The first features that immediately grabbed my attention are the new Debugging Tools in Visual Studio 2015. They remove a
Developing Against Friction I am sure at some point and time in your life you have felt the effects of friction. Whether you first learned of this concept as a kid in science class, or you first felt it on your skin as you fell off your bike and scrape your knee on
