Git
GitHub has a lot of neat features but this has to be my new favourite one. If you're looking at a pull request, example at https://github.com/simon-reynolds/url-magic/pull/1 you can quickly view the diff by going to https://github.com/simon-reynolds/url-magic/pull/1.
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C#
There have always been a few different ways of dealing with strings of text in C#, depending on what we need we might use any of the following; string normalString = "This is a string, to include a line break we need to escape it like this \n so it
JavaScript
Browsers have varying support for different features in javascript, some support more functions, others support less. I'm not going to be so crass as to name names here but if we wanted to use Array.prototype.find we'd have problems on a certain browser from Redmond[
SQL
Wanting to search for database records within a timeframe is relatively common, particularly if we want to examine error logs. How we search can make a large difference. The two queries below search for the same set of records in the same table but the first query has the potential
jQuery
Having previously blogged about checking if a form has been modified I needed something slightly different I came across dirrty, a jQuery plugin by Ruben Torres that I personally found to have a cleaner implementation than the dirtyFields I previously wrote about. For instance, to check if a form has
C#
The .NET Framework has been updated to 4.6.2 (full announcement here) and it has one feature that is definitely worth shouting from the rooftops about. In this release, we extended the CLR debugging APIs to enable the debugger to request more information and perform additional analysis when a
C#
Update: C#7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 both now support async Main methods! Async code is awesome, that's just science. But when you introduce it to a codebase it tends to bubble all the way back up to your entry point If you're calling
.NET Core
Following on from my post on how to upgrade an ASP.NET 5 application to .NET Core, here's how to configure it. By default a .NET Core web application will listen on port 5000 and will run it as a production environment. We may want to run two
.NET Core
ASP.NET 5 is dead. Long live .NET Core! ASP.NET 5 has been through more than a name change. dnvm, dnu and dnx are gone, all replaced with a single dotnet command. There are a number of new ideas, one of the most immediate being that all .NET Core
C#
In .NET an enum is a type used to denote a complete set of simple constants. A simple example being the System.DayOfWeek enumeration. Enums can be decorated with the Flagsattribute which means that they can be combined. For instance, we may have an enumeration listing different pets that a
.NET Core
Coding in ASP.NET 5 just became a lot quicker. A change in a view will be reflected as soon as you hit F5, now you can have the same magic with controllers or any other compiled code in your project as soon as you save your changes. Once you