So guys, shortly after I published my last post “10 years as a Web Developer”, a Solution Architect position came up, so I went for it and got it. Was I ready hell no! Would I ever have been ready… maybe. But I went for it because it would propel my career. So for the last two years… Read More »
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 »
Open up Powershell Go into a container: docker exec -it <mycontainer> bash opening files in a container: show file list: ls show file list: change dir: cd {directory} Show file content: cat {filename}
That is, what does a developer who has been working with .NET for the last few years need to know in order to get past an interview. (Recently I have been on the hiring side in interviews) Basic skills If in an interview you rate yourself a 7 out of 10 in your knowledge of c#. I would… Read More »
After hearing the term “microservices” back in mid 2016 and reading up about the design pattern I thought, yes I want to develop microservices. Then in early 2017, I was given a chance to work on a new greenfield project. The project itself needed to be broken down into two different processes, but both processes would need a… Read More »
A logging category is a bundle of message codes which describe a function of a process, a method, a flow, or a use case. Each category has: Name – A descriptive name Type – Audit, Accounting, or Diagnostics Attribute list – A list of attributes that might be logged with messages associated with a category (if applicable) The… Read More »
Today one of the nodes in my RabbitMQ cluster was down. So I logged onto the server and opened up the cmd at the rabbitmq bin folder and tried running the following command ‘rabbitmq-service start’, however it threw an error ‘erlsrv: the service Rabbitmq is not an erlsrv controlled service’. Just run the following to resolve this error… Read More »
Setting up RabbitMQ clustring on windows is very simple, however the documentation is not great. Installing. Get the latest version from erlang.org and rabbitmq.com. Run the installers as administrator. Install erlang first. After installing enable the management web interface. Navagate to ?the rabbitMq server sbin,?C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.6.2\sbin Open cmd at the location as admin and run the following:?… Read More »
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.
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 »