Category Archives: Development

Navigating the Roles of Development and Product Management

During my time in the tech industry, I’ve observed misalignments between development teams and product managers leading to inefficiencies. This piece explores strategies for aligning the What and Why responsibilities of product teams with the How focus of developers, ensuring both can effectively collaborate towards innovative, sustainable products.

10 years as a developer

Looking back over the last ten years Today I have officially spent ten years working as a .net developer Getting into the game When I left secondary school, I originally wanted to go into the hotel industry, and I spent two years studying leadership and management in hospitality in college. However midway through my course, I decided that… Read More »

Encrypting an ASP.NET web application connection strings by directory

To encrypt an ASP.NET application’s connection strings?by the path of the application, navigate to the .NET framework folder ?%windows%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\versionNumber Open the command prompt as administrator and point to the .Net directory and run the command ASPNET_REGIIS -pef “connectionStrings” “C:\Inetpub\<Application Folder>” (Point to the directory not the web.config file) If successful the following should be displayed.    

ASP.NET Web API – Returning javascript friendly (camelcase) json in two lines of code

Naming conventions of properties defer slightly in .NET and JavaScript. .NET uses?pascal-case and JavaScript uses camel-case. When developing a .NET API all the public properties should use the naming convention pascal-case. However if the service is consumed as an API with a JavaScript client then the json returned should be camel-case. Now you could go and add the… Read More »