Creating the awesomeness
What is it? Given the following situation, I have a website and want to get some analytics. One could choose to use Google Analytics, but this means giving all your data to a company. One of many options is to use Matomo, Matomo is a powerful privacy-first web analytics platform that gives you 100% data … Read more
For a while I was looking for a way to track my car’s whereabouts (nice word!) In order to do so, I started by looking how to have a server environment ready to capture and display this information, as it was clear I didn’t want to create a serverside solution by myself for this. Searching … Read more
What is it? I wanted to check a website if a change was made. Why?Renting a simple space is hard in the Netherlands, as there are many sites that offer appartments / houses / garages, I wanted one.After a while I found a company responsible for renting out storage spaces and garages. They told me … Read more
What is it? Structured logging is the practice of implementing a consistent, predetermined message format for application logs that allows them to be treated as data sets rather than text. (https://www.sumologic.com/glossary/structured-logging/) I wanted to have a good, like really good, but free, system to move my logs to. Over the years, I have used PM2, … Read more
What is it? For a while I am using MediatR to handle messages in my ASP.Net Core applications. (New to the Mediator design pattern, refactoring.guru has an exelent article about it)These messages (i.e. of type IRequest) need to be validated before the Handler processes them.In order to have this done, Fluent Validation is used and … Read more
What is it? Code coverage, it is this magical number that will never hit 100% for a larger project, but near 100% should be doable right? One of my projects is setup using the Clean Architecture and has a separate front end and back end test project. For this article I will focus on the … Read more
What is it? Working on an one-man projects is easy, you build it on your own machine and deploy it manually to your server environment. This is a method I used to use for quite some time, but I now have noticed that setting up an CICD pipeline benefits also the one-man projects. Microsofts Azure … Read more
What is it? Running a SPA (Single Page Application) on APS.NET Core is easy, it even comes out of the box. But I wanted to run two Angular SPA’s next to each other without having to setup a complete new ASP.NET Core project. Currently APS.NET Core does not support hosting multiple SPA’s on the same … Read more
What is it? Hosting some aspnet core webpages, it made me realize that I never documented any of the actions needed to set it up. My servers run Debian with DirectAdmin, configured with apache and nginx. This post will show how my TimelapseMP4Webpage is published to https://vwp.timdows.com/timelapse. Configuring DirectAdmin as a user Upload the aspnet core webpage … Read more
What is it? For a long time I wanted to run my own Docker server. My first attempt was running it on a virtual box setup on my Windows machine. Next try I wanted to run this on a server environment. I tried Windows server 2016 with the container service, but I didn’t feel like … Read more
What is it? Having some spare monitor’s laying around (from the dumpster), I did already make some nice projects with them. In the Dual photo webpage with Angular project I added some nice tvservice magic. I thought it was worth having its own place. This project is nothing more than a webpage (not even a page, … Read more
What is it? Having some spare monitor’s laying around (from the dumpster), I decided to make a dual wall screen project. The idea came from the magic mirror project, and was accompanied by a simple image webpage project. The hardware 2 x 19″ monitor with DVI connection 1 x Raspberry Pi 3 1 x Raspberry … Read more
What is it? This project, called IdealistaManager, is a private project, used to search houses in Spain. The backend is a simple mysql database is accessible via a .NET Core WebAPI project. It is being served by Apache via a PHP proxy, I described that in another blogpost I made. The frontend is a Google … Read more
What is it? For a couple of year I got some virtual servers for my own company. On one of those I run Debian 8 (hosted via kvm) with DirectAdmin. In this article I’ll write how I managed to get a sample .NET Core WebAPI running on this environment. Update 2017-03-27: Used Apache as proxy Steps … Read more
At the end of 2015 I’ve tried to install ASP.NET vNext (later renamed to core) on a Raspberry Pi, but recently .NET Core 2.0.0-beta version came out and some people already had a play with this on an ARM32 environment. Arranging myself a Raspberry Pi 3 and trying this out was next! The environment Prepare the Raspberry … Read more
What is it? A follow up on my old project https://timdows.com/projects/timelapse-camera/, this project is going to capture the construction across my apartment. You can see this as rev3 of this project. In this project I’ve upgraded the Raspberry Pi 1 to a 3, eliminating the wireless issues that I had, and gaining more overall processor power. Starting … Read more
What is it? My objective consists of two parts, load the Angular2 template while it is being served by Razor and also apply lazy loading of the template itself. I followed the post from Victor Savkin on https://vsavkin.com/angular-router-declarative-lazy-loading-7071d1f203ee Lazy loading speeds up our application load time by splitting it into multiple bundles, and loading them … Read more
What is it? Everybody has some existing project that would be suitable for an ASP.NET Core application. For my work I had a project that uses Linq to SQL with some weird database access layer (don’t get me started about that). After two minutes I had around 60 models and a fully stuffed DataContext. Wow … Read more
What is it? The guys from https://ngrok.com have done some great work. Their slogan: I want to expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet. Don’t constantly redeploy your in-progress work to get feedback from clients. ngrok creates a secure public URL (https://yourapp.ngrok.io) to a local webserver on your machine. So … Read more
Errors while doing a json request They suck! You are waiting on your webpage for a XHR request to complete, but without knowing it failed. Angular has some functionality that you can catch any result code outside 200 – 299, but than you’ll give a general error to the user. What if you could really … Read more
What and why? In one of the projects I’m currently working on, I wanted to protect data that is stored in a database. In this case it is a password, required to access an external API, that I would not want to save as plain text in the database. As this password is user specific, … Read more
What is Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF or XSRF) There are numerous reasons why you should implement an Anti Forgery Token. With ASP.NET Core and Angular this is almost possible out of the box. As I did not find any basic examples, most where creating a full webpage application, I have decided to write a … Read more
Table of contents What is it? C# and javascript code How does it work the players perspective How does it work the quizmasters perspective How does it work the Dennis and Sandra’s perspective What could be better What is it? This webpage is a simple question game based on the MJAGame. All normal players can … Read more
Table of contents What is it? Setting up the Arduino NRF24Sniffer Running the ASP.NET Core 1.0 website Install .NET runtime if you are not on Windows Download and run the application Configuring the settings Explanation of the data on the NRF24Sniffer page Explanation of the data on the MysensorListener page Understanding the raw package information … Read more
What is it? An easy webpage that shows the messages send and received by the Mysensor gateway connected to my Vera3 in a human readable way. The gateway acts as the glue between your controller and radio network. It translates radio messages to a protocol which can be understood by a controller. This protocol used … Read more
Table of contents What is it? How does it work from the players perspective How does it work from Martens perspective C# and javascript code Small hacks to get it working Database What could be better What is it? This webpage is a simple question game. All the players, except for Marten, can answer a … Read more
ASP.NET vNext on a Raspberry PI Try number 1: raspbian with mono Try number 2: Windows 10 IoT Core on a Raspberry PI 2 with ASP.NET 5, Kestrel and DNX All done and time for the first test console application Lets create a Kestrel MVC application with DNX Publish the MVC application to my Raspberry … Read more
What is it? This small webpage is used by some of my domotica projects. For now, it contains a small database that holds information for my 7Segment power meter. Created in Symfony2, it also holds a command that is executed every 5 minutes to refresh several caches. By doing this there is no need to … Read more