Create Net Core Docker App
In this post, we will look at building .NET Core Docker App. We will first examine how to do this without Visual Studio and then with Visual Studio Tools for...
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ClickOnce
Create Mandatory Updates For Clickonce Application
In this post, we will look at creating mandatory updates for ClickOnce Application.
ads
Testing Overlay Ads In Adsense
This post documents how to test certain ads from AdSense on mobile devices.
Monetization For Blog
This post documents the different monetization framework investigated to display ads on a blog.
agile
The Definition Of Done
Code Logging Profile Test Review
alert
Alert System Overview
Synopsis
analysis
android
Installing Android Nougat On A Samsung S5
In this post, we will install Android 7.0 Nougat on a Samsung Galaxy S5 using a Windows machine.
Xamarin Forms Exit Code 1 Error After Adding Libraries
In this post, we will examine a build error that be initially be baffling. In essence, after adding a library to your Xamarin Forms Android project, we end u...
Xamarin Forms Opening App Store
In this short post, we will examine how to open the native App Store on Android and Windows towards a specific app. This is useful when you want to advertise...
Xamarin Forms Android App Signing Consideration
In this post, we will examine a minor but important difference in the app signing process between Android and Windows apps.
Xamarin Missing Libmonodroid Error
Today, I ran into a small issue when working on my Xamarin Forms Android application. In essence, my application would run fine in debug mode but it would co...
app
Porting Native To Pwa Service Workers Https
Using service worker you can hijack connections, fabricate, and filter responses. Powerful stuff. While you would use these powers for good, a man-in-the-...
Porting Native To Pwa Same Origin Policy
This post examine a potential issue when porting a native app to PWA.
Porting Cordova To Pwa Onsen Ui
This post examines porting a Cordova app built with Onsen UI to PWA.
apps
Progressive Web Apps On Ios
In this post, we will examine the reason why Apple might be relunctant to support Progressive Web Apps (PWA) on iOS devices.
architecture
Principles And Best Practices For Cloud Applications
In this blog post, we will highlight the principles and best practices when developing cloud applications. The nature of cloud applications, being a software...
Continuous Integration And Delivery In Microservices
CI/CD is a key element of microservices application. Without it, we will not achieve the agility that microservices promises since there are so many moving p...
Logging And Monitoring In Microservices
A microservices application can be composed of dozens or hundreds of services. Not only that, a single user operation can span multiple of services. Therefor...
Ingestion And Workflow In Microservices
In microservices, a transaction can span multiple services. The workflow must be reliable since it cannot leave them uncompleted. Similarly, we need to contr...
Api Design In Microservices
In a microservices architecture, there could be a significant amount of data exchange between services in order to fulfill a request. Consequently, APIs must...
Communications In Microservices
Unlike a monolith architecture, a microservice architecture involves a great number of small services interacting with each other’s in order to complete a si...
Data Considerations In Microservices
An underlying principle of microservices is that each service is responsible for its own data. What this means is that if Service A owns Data Store A, Servic...
Defining Microservices Boundaries
One of the most popular definition we see of microservices these days is that a microservices does one thing and one thing well. This is probably the most da...
Introduction To Microservices
Microservices is a huge buzzword nowadays. Everyone wants to use microservices, everyone thinks they are using microservices. But microservices is much more ...
architectures
Minimal Impact Maintenance Load Balancer Solution
DISCLAIMER The strategy of removing a node from the IP Table in order to perform the deployment causes connection lost. Therefore, there are no advanta...
asp.net
Fluent Validation In Asp.net Core
This tutorial demontrates how to setup Fluent Validation in ASP.NET Core.
Delay Load Non Essential Scripts
Everyone wants their page to be popular on social networks, but social network scripts tend to be large and can cause sluggish response for the user. Waiting...
Poor Client Implementation Results With Unexpected Bursts In Backend
In this short post, we will examine a small error in our client library implementation that lead to unexpected bursts of calls to our backend service.
Debugging Asp Net Applications With Glimpse And Glimpse Hud
Glimpse is like the FireBug client side debugger, except it’s implemented in JavaScript on the client side with hooks in to ASP.NET on the Server Side.
Use Caching As Last Resort
Caching is not synonymous with performance. Your code should already be efficient. Caching should only be used as a last resort, after you’ve made all possib...
Caching Infrequently Updated Data
For small sets of data that are infrequently updated, consider making a method for caching them in the memory of your application server rather than constant...
Avoid Large Viewstate When Possible
In this post, we will look at why we should avoid large view state when possible.
Examine Performance On Both Client And Server Side
Traditionally, many performance problems have been rooted in the backend; either the database or application server. However, with the proliferation of advan...
Avoid Using Session State
Where possible, you should try and avoid using session state, especially in process session state. While using one web server, performance is usually not a p...
Avoid Running Sites In Debug Mode
This may sound simple but it is so easy to forget. Do not publish your ASP.NET application in debug mode. We can do as much optimizations in our code as we w...
Choose The Appropriate Cluster Index
You get exactly one clustered index on a table. Ensure you have it in the right place. First choice is the most frequently accessed column, which may or may ...
Consider Creating Web Garden For Stateless Applications
By default each Application Pool runs with a Single Worker Process (W3Wp.exe). We can assign multiple Worker Processes With a Single Application Pool. An App...
Bypass The Limit Of 2 Tcp Ip Connections
Make sure you are not limited by 2 tcp ip connections when you don’t need to The default setting for the maximum amount of connection is two per connection g...
asp.net core
Create Asp Net Core Docker App
In this post, we will look at building ASP.NET Core Docker App. We will first examine how to do this without Visual Studio and then with Visual Studio Tools ...
asset
Asset Transfer System
Use Case
automation
Test Automation
Definition
best practices
Code Review Checklist
The following is a simple checklist for code review.
Database Continuous Integration
Context
Delay Load Non Essential Scripts
Everyone wants their page to be popular on social networks, but social network scripts tend to be large and can cause sluggish response for the user. Waiting...
Add Https To Web Sites
Transforming a http website to a https website requires the use of a digital certificate. These certificates are typically issued by a trusting authoring suc...
Debug Wcf Service With Message Logging
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides the capability to log incoming and outgoing messages for offline consumption. Message logging enables you to ...
Maximize Wcf Performance
Service Definition For the given service definition below,
Make Use Of Outputcache
Make use of the OutputCache annotation on MVC controllers. If the server can serve from memory, rather than going to disk or database, that’s a good win.
Use Caching As Last Resort
Caching is not synonymous with performance. Your code should already be efficient. Caching should only be used as a last resort, after you’ve made all possib...
Do Not Assume Problems Arises Only From Business Logic
When beginning to diagnose performance problems, we often assume the problem is in our business logic. Don’t forget that the areas of our code that provide i...
Do Not Underestimate The Value Of The Ui When Tackling Performance Problems
Simple UI tricks, such as progress bars, redirecting users’ attention using animation, or placing slower loading sections at the bottom of a page or offscree...
Caching Infrequently Updated Data
For small sets of data that are infrequently updated, consider making a method for caching them in the memory of your application server rather than constant...
Always Perform Server Side Validation
This isn’t exactly a performance tip but rather a security tip for when people think that they could improve performance by cutting out server-side validatio...
Avoid Large Viewstate When Possible
In this post, we will look at why we should avoid large view state when possible.
Examine Performance On Both Client And Server Side
Traditionally, many performance problems have been rooted in the backend; either the database or application server. However, with the proliferation of advan...
Avoid Using Session State
Where possible, you should try and avoid using session state, especially in process session state. While using one web server, performance is usually not a p...
Avoid Running Sites In Debug Mode
This may sound simple but it is so easy to forget. Do not publish your ASP.NET application in debug mode. We can do as much optimizations in our code as we w...
Choose The Appropriate Cluster Index
You get exactly one clustered index on a table. Ensure you have it in the right place. First choice is the most frequently accessed column, which may or may ...
Do Not Blindly Generate Crud Queries
Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) queries can all be generated from the ORM tool without the need for intervention. But, the Read queries generated are...
Use Feature Detection Over Browser User Agent
The userAgent string is a poor indicator of whether a particular feature (or bug) is present. To compound the problem, much of the code that interprets userA...
Deployment Plan
The following is a general guideline on the different steps involved in deploying an application. Each application will have its own deployment procedure.
Documentation
Summary
Product Versioning
This post details the versioning strategy we are using for our products. We are talking about products and not libraries, web services or APIs.
Product Naming
Summary
Take advantage of .net 4.5 async constructs
With the arrival of .NET 4.5, writing async code correctly is easier than ever. Like any tool, it should be only applied where it makes most sense – in web u...
Maximize expiration for static content
Always set the CacheControlMaxAge attribute in web.config to a high number (a year is good). You don’t want people pulling down the same static content they ...
Know your loops
For is the fastest way of iterating over a collection, foreach is a little slower, and LINQ queries are slowest.
Always Use A Standards Based Doctype To Avoid Quirks Mode
Start with <!DOCTYPE html>. The modern web has no place for Quirks Mode, which was designed so that mid-1990s web pages would be usable in turn-of-the...
Populate Controls Before Viewstate Is Being Tracked
If you do need ViewState, understand the page lifecycle and bind your data appropriately. A control loads its ViewState after Page_Init and before Page_Load,...
Turn Off Viewstate When Not Needed On Single Value Controls
Unless you’re tracking a Text_Changed event, you don’t need ViewState enabled on TextBoxes and similar controls. Classic ASP.NET automatically repopulates Te...
Turn Off Viewstate By Default And Turn On When Needed
Make it your habit to turn off ViewState on every control by default, and only turn it on when you need it. If a page doesn’t need ViewState anywhere, turn i...
Turn Off Viewstate When Not Needed On List Controls And Use Caching
The same goes for most implementations of Repeaters, ListViews, and so on. These are usually the biggest culprits and they can be ugly. The advantage of View...
Dropdownlist And Viewstate
You may think it’s impossible to turn off ViewState on a DropDownList, even if you re-bind it on every postback. But with a tiny bit of elbow grease you can ...
Turn Off Viewstate When You Are Rebinding The Data
If you’re re-binding data anyway, or just toggling one property on postback (asp:Panel anyone?), turn off that ViewState! Please!
For A Snappy User Experience, Always Validate On The Client
To avoid unnecessary round trips to the server, validate form entries on the client using JavaScript before posting them. This provides quick feedback and ma...
Use Miniprofiler During Development
Get MiniProfiler and configure it to always run when you hit your site (just don’t enable it for the general public). You’ll get detailed execution times and...
Elmah (error Logging Modules And Handlers) With Sql Server Compact
ELMAH supports many formats for storing errors, but I think that SQL Server Compact is a great choice for small to medium size applications.
Stringbuilder Is Not The Answer For All String Concatenation Scenarios String.join Could Be
Yes, if you are in a loop and adding to a string, then a StringBuilder could be most appropriate. However, the overhead of spinning up a StringBuilder instan...
Review What Client Scripts You Are Using
Out of the box, many ASP.NET projects include client script libraries which you may or may not be using. It’s always a good idea to check what you are using,...
Remove Unused Http Modules
Make sure you’ve removed HTTP modules that aren’t being used (Windows authentication, for example), and that you’ve disabled services such as FTP and SMTP, i...
Remove Unused View Engines
If you’re an ASP.NET MVC developer, you might not know that ASP.NET still loads the View Engines for both Razor and Web Forms by default. This can cause perf...
Reduce Memory Leaks Dramatically With The “using” Statement
If a type implements IDisposable, wrap the use of it in a “using” statement, so that it automatically disposes of objects properly when the block exits.
When In Production, Carefully Consider What You Need To Log
Many people deploy to production without checking how logging is currently configured. It is always advisable to check whether your policy is to have logging...
Use Microsoft’s Pdbs To Debug Or Profile External Assemblies Or Libraries
To accurately debug or profile an external assembly or library (i.e. one you’re not directly compiling), you need the PDB files that accompany each of the DL...
Use The Startmode Attribute To Reduce The Load Time For Your Asp.net Site
Every time you update your site, IIS must recompile it during the first request, so the initial request takes significantly longer than subsequent ones. An e...
Throw Hardware At The Problem, Not Developers
As developers, we often want to fix problems with code, but don’t be afraid to ‘put the compiler down’ and throw some hardware at the problem. Performance pr...
Before Tackling Any Website Performance Issue, First Verify The Problem Isn’t On The Client
Traditionally, many performance problems have been rooted in either the database or application server. However, with the proliferation of advanced JavaScrip...
Static Collections
If a collection is static, make sure it only contains the objects you need. If the collection is iterated over often, then the performance can be slow if you...
Use A Content Delivery Network
Use a content delivery network (CDN) for hosting images and scripts. They may be cached and it will reduce load on your server.
Pre Fetch Components With Ajax
Use AJAX to retrieve components asynchronously that may not be needed immediately, such as the content of a collapsed panel, content behind a tab, and so on.
Script References Should Be At The Bottom Of The Page
Add script references at the bottom of the page, because asynchronous downloads halt when a script reference is reached. Style sheets and images can be downl...
Reduce The Data Sent Across The Network
Reducing the amount of data sent across the network can improve application performance significantly. Compressing CSS and JavaScript is possible using bundl...
Turn On Http Compression
Make sure HTTP compression is turned on for any uncompressed content. HTML in particular compresses significantly, and in this era of mobile friendliness and...
Use Image Sprites When Appropriate
Use image sprites to retrieve smaller images in one download.
Include Height And Width Of Image
Including height and width in tags will allow your page to render more quickly, because space can be allocated for the image before it is downloaded.
Know And Use The Css Cascade Rules
Simple id and class selectors are useful, but using them exclusively means the markup gets messier and less reusable with unnecessary ids and classes. Using ...
Fully Prefix Vendor Specific Css Properties To Future Proof Them
As new draft standards progress, browser vendors sometimes get a jump on the standard by adding support via prefixed properties. To ensure that the CSS conti...
Solve Compatibility Problems With Valid Css Rules, Not Css Parser Hacks
CSS parser hacks are unreliable because browsers can be updated causing these hacks to fail. Instead try adding version-specific classes to the html or body ...
Run As Little Script As Possible When The Document Is Ready
Techniques such as jQuery’s $(document).ready() make it easy to run script as soon as the HTML on the page is loaded, which is usually the earliest possible ...
Start Ajax Requests As Early As Possible If They’re Critical For User Interaction With The Page
Start AJAX requests as early as possible if they’re critical for user interaction with the page
Avoid Inline Javascript Tags In Html Markup
As with external script references, an inline script requires the browser to stop parsing HTML and can also prevent parallel downloading of other resources o...
Put Css File References At The Top Of The Html File
Putting CSS files in the body can result in the browser showing a blank page until the CSS has loaded. CSS files should go into the head of the HTML document...
Understand The Backward Compatibility Limits Of Html5 Tags
New HTML5 tags like <section>, <header>, and <footer> improve the semantics of markup, but require a special “shiv” script to run in Intern...
Sites Don’t Need To Render The Same Across All Browsers
A common concern among developers is ensuring that their sites render the same across all browsers, including non-modern ones. That’s not always necessary. A...
Use Polyfills And Shims Sparingly
If you absolutely need to provide the same experience across all browsers, polyfills and shims offer code and markup that can help mimic standards-based APIs...
Use A Build Process With Tools To Check For Errors And Minify Files
A good set of build tools such as HTML validators, CSS validators, Uglify, and JSHint, or GruntJS can find latent problems, enforce project code standards, a...
Start With A Solid Template To Simplify Development
Many of these tips are already built into a project template like HTML5 Boilerplate to save you some time. Those rules work equally well for projects targete...
Use Ie Compat Inspector To Help Migrate Your Site To Standards Based Code
Standards are a core part of Internet Explorer 10 and helping developers migrate their code to take advantage of this is incredibly important to the IE engin...
Focus On Stable Standards
It’s easy to get excited every time a new and cool feature comes out but some of these may still be experimental with the specification still under developme...
Test In Multiple Browsers While Developing
Although modern browsers are much closer to a single standard than ever before, differences still exist. An occasional multi-browser sanity checkpoint during...
Variables, Parameters And Columns Data Types
Ensure your variables and parameters are the same data types as the columns. An implicit or explicit conversion can lead to table scans and slow performance.
Move Only The Data You Require
SELECT * is not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s a good idea to only move the data you really need to move and only when you really need it, in order to avo...
Sql String Data Types Which One
When creating a field which will contains text, it is important to choose the right string type in order to save space and increase performance.
Only Load What’s Needed
Implement different database queries in different contexts. In the API and on a webpage, you’ll inevitably require different entity properties, so don’t load...
Profile Your Orm Database Hits
Always profile your ORM database hits with SQL Profiler during development. ORMs get away from you very quickly. Before you know it, you’ve run a query 2000 ...
Enabled ‘optimized For Ad Hoc’ When Using Orm Code Generation
Since the code generated from the ORM can frequently be ad hoc, ensure that the SQL Server instance has ‘Optimize for Ad Hoc’ enabled. This will store a plan...
Lazy Load Vs A Single Database Hit
Watch out for lazy loading in ORMs. You shouldn’t lazy load any entities that could be retrieved with a single database hit.
Make Sure Paging Is Conducted At The Database Layer
When using grid UI controls (framework based, or 3rd party owned), you should carefully consider how paging is implemented. Many controls implement paging in...
Verify Parameter Size Versus Data Type Within The Table
Be sure your code is generating a parameter size equivalent to the data type defined within table in the database. Some ORM tools size the parameter to the s...
Orm Doesn’t Mean You Have To Abandon The Relational Storage Design
Avoid following the ‘Hello World’ examples provided with your ORM tool that turns it into an Object to Object Mapping. Database storage is not the same as ob...
Use Parameterized Queries Or Store Procedures
Parameterized queries are exactly the same as stored procedures in terms of performance and memory management. Since most ORM tools can use either stored pro...
Index On Specific Columns
Performance is enhanced when indexes are placed on columns used in WHERE, JOIN, ORDER BY, GROUP, and TOP. Always test to ensure that the index does help perf...
Consider Creating Web Garden For Stateless Applications
By default each Application Pool runs with a Single Worker Process (W3Wp.exe). We can assign multiple Worker Processes With a Single Application Pool. An App...
Avoid Inline Javascript
Similarly to external JavaScript, inline script requires the browser to stop parsing the HTML and can also prevent the parallel downloading of other resource...
Bypass The Limit Of 2 Tcp Ip Connections
Make sure you are not limited by 2 tcp ip connections when you don’t need to The default setting for the maximum amount of connection is two per connection g...
Careful With Inline Javascript
An example would be
blog
Testing Overlay Ads In Adsense
This post documents how to test certain ads from AdSense on mobile devices.
Monetization For Blog
This post documents the different monetization framework investigated to display ads on a blog.
brainstorm
build
Xamarin Forms Exit Code 1 Error After Adding Libraries
In this post, we will examine a build error that be initially be baffling. In essence, after adding a library to your Xamarin Forms Android project, we end u...
Xamarin Missing Libmonodroid Error
Today, I ran into a small issue when working on my Xamarin Forms Android application. In essence, my application would run fine in debug mode but it would co...
ci
Database Continuous Integration
Context
code review
Code Review Checklist
The following is a simple checklist for code review.
container
Scaling Dedicated Game Servers With Kubernetes
Scaling Dedicated Game Servers with Kubernetes
Kubernetes Best Practices
Kubernetes Best Practices
Kubernetes Basics
Kubernetes Basics
What Is Container Technology
The following articles provides a basic introduction to containers technologies. It would allow the reader to gain an understanding of what are containers an...
contests
On The Spot App Innovation Contest Entry
This is a re-post of an article that I wrote for the App Innovation Contest run by Code Project.
cordova
Cross Platform Mobile Development Revisited
This post documents the different technologies investigated for cross-platform mobile development.
Cross Platform Mobile Development
This post documents the different technologies investigated for cross-platform mobile development.
data
Data Virtualization
Overview
database
Database Creation Recovery Model
There are 3 recovery models we can choose from when creating a database: Simple, Full and Bulk Logged
Do Not Blindly Generate Crud Queries
Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) queries can all be generated from the ORM tool without the need for intervention. But, the Read queries generated are...
deployment
Poc Dns Load Balancing
The purpose of this proof of concept is to investigate and determine a strategy to load balance web server geographically via DNS entries. In essence, given ...
design
Data Virtualization
Overview
Microservices Sizing
NTP Service
Owmm Design Workflow
The following provides a description of the workflow use during the design of the OWMM service. It focuses mainly on the design docs that will be the foundat...
Principles And Best Practices For Cloud Applications
In this blog post, we will highlight the principles and best practices when developing cloud applications. The nature of cloud applications, being a software...
Continuous Integration And Delivery In Microservices
CI/CD is a key element of microservices application. Without it, we will not achieve the agility that microservices promises since there are so many moving p...
Open World Position Based Matchmaking Algorithm (wip)
This is a very early draft without any structure or the like. I did it mostly for storage purposes.
Logging And Monitoring In Microservices
A microservices application can be composed of dozens or hundreds of services. Not only that, a single user operation can span multiple of services. Therefor...
Ingestion And Workflow In Microservices
In microservices, a transaction can span multiple services. The workflow must be reliable since it cannot leave them uncompleted. Similarly, we need to contr...
Api Design In Microservices
In a microservices architecture, there could be a significant amount of data exchange between services in order to fulfill a request. Consequently, APIs must...
Communications In Microservices
Unlike a monolith architecture, a microservice architecture involves a great number of small services interacting with each other’s in order to complete a si...
Data Considerations In Microservices
An underlying principle of microservices is that each service is responsible for its own data. What this means is that if Service A owns Data Store A, Servic...
Defining Microservices Boundaries
One of the most popular definition we see of microservices these days is that a microservices does one thing and one thing well. This is probably the most da...
Introduction To Microservices
Microservices is a huge buzzword nowadays. Everyone wants to use microservices, everyone thinks they are using microservices. But microservices is much more ...
Asset Transfer System
Use Case
docker
Visual Glossary Of Container Technology
This post is simply about maintaining a visual glossary of container technology.
Create Asp Net Core Docker App
In this post, we will look at building ASP.NET Core Docker App. We will first examine how to do this without Visual Studio and then with Visual Studio Tools ...
Create Net Core Docker App
In this post, we will look at building .NET Core Docker App. We will first examine how to do this without Visual Studio and then with Visual Studio Tools for...
What Is Container Technology
The following articles provides a basic introduction to containers technologies. It would allow the reader to gain an understanding of what are containers an...
documentation
Displaying Sample Code In Blog Posts
This post examines the different strategies at including sample code in a blog post.
Add Missing Visio Stencils
In this post, we will add stencils for software and database diagrams to Visio 2010 Standard.
error
Xamarin Forms Exit Code 1 Error After Adding Libraries
In this post, we will examine a build error that be initially be baffling. In essence, after adding a library to your Xamarin Forms Android project, we end u...
Xamarin Missing Libmonodroid Error
Today, I ran into a small issue when working on my Xamarin Forms Android application. In essence, my application would run fine in debug mode but it would co...
forms
Xamarin Forms Opening App Store
In this short post, we will examine how to open the native App Store on Android and Windows towards a specific app. This is useful when you want to advertise...
glossary
Visual Glossary Of Container Technology
This post is simply about maintaining a visual glossary of container technology.
image
Xamarin Forms Missing Images In Release
The images in my app were initially embedded in the assembly of my PCL. They would be retrieved as follow:
ios
Progressive Web Apps On Ios
In this post, we will examine the reason why Apple might be relunctant to support Progressive Web Apps (PWA) on iOS devices.
kubernetes
Visual Glossary Of Container Technology
This post is simply about maintaining a visual glossary of container technology.
Scaling Dedicated Game Servers With Kubernetes
Scaling Dedicated Game Servers with Kubernetes
Kubernetes Best Practices
Kubernetes Best Practices
Kubernetes Basics
Kubernetes Basics
languages
loot
Loot System Analysis With Game Server
Introduction
Loot System With Guard Items
Introduction
microservices
Microservices Sizing
NTP Service
Principles And Best Practices For Cloud Applications
In this blog post, we will highlight the principles and best practices when developing cloud applications. The nature of cloud applications, being a software...
Continuous Integration And Delivery In Microservices
CI/CD is a key element of microservices application. Without it, we will not achieve the agility that microservices promises since there are so many moving p...
Logging And Monitoring In Microservices
A microservices application can be composed of dozens or hundreds of services. Not only that, a single user operation can span multiple of services. Therefor...
Ingestion And Workflow In Microservices
In microservices, a transaction can span multiple services. The workflow must be reliable since it cannot leave them uncompleted. Similarly, we need to contr...
Api Design In Microservices
In a microservices architecture, there could be a significant amount of data exchange between services in order to fulfill a request. Consequently, APIs must...
Communications In Microservices
Unlike a monolith architecture, a microservice architecture involves a great number of small services interacting with each other’s in order to complete a si...
Data Considerations In Microservices
An underlying principle of microservices is that each service is responsible for its own data. What this means is that if Service A owns Data Store A, Servic...
Defining Microservices Boundaries
One of the most popular definition we see of microservices these days is that a microservices does one thing and one thing well. This is probably the most da...
Introduction To Microservices
Microservices is a huge buzzword nowadays. Everyone wants to use microservices, everyone thinks they are using microservices. But microservices is much more ...
mobile
Porting Native To Pwa Service Workers Https
Using service worker you can hijack connections, fabricate, and filter responses. Powerful stuff. While you would use these powers for good, a man-in-the-...
Porting Native To Pwa Same Origin Policy
This post examine a potential issue when porting a native app to PWA.
Porting Cordova To Pwa Onsen Ui
This post examines porting a Cordova app built with Onsen UI to PWA.
monetization
Testing Overlay Ads In Adsense
This post documents how to test certain ads from AdSense on mobile devices.
Monetization For Blog
This post documents the different monetization framework investigated to display ads on a blog.
nuget
Private Nuget Repository
In this post, we will examine our endeavor in the creation of a private NuGet repository.
objective
Minimal Impact Maintenance Load Balancer Solution
DISCLAIMER The strategy of removing a node from the IP Table in order to perform the deployment causes connection lost. Therefore, there are no advanta...
objectives
Team Technical Objectives
Overview
online
operation
Minimal Impact Maintenance Load Balancer Solution
DISCLAIMER The strategy of removing a node from the IP Table in order to perform the deployment causes connection lost. Therefore, there are no advanta...
ops
Poc Dns Load Balancing
The purpose of this proof of concept is to investigate and determine a strategy to load balance web server geographically via DNS entries. In essence, given ...
orchestration
overview
Loot System Analysis With Game Server
Introduction
Alert System Overview
Synopsis
Loot System With Guard Items
Introduction
owmm
Owmm Backend Code Development Workflow
The following provides a description of the workflow use during the development of the OWMM service. We are assuming that the development is divided into epi...
Owmm Design Workflow
The following provides a description of the workflow use during the design of the OWMM service. It focuses mainly on the design docs that will be the foundat...
Open World Position Based Matchmaking Algorithm (wip)
This is a very early draft without any structure or the like. I did it mostly for storage purposes.
owms
package
Private Nuget Repository
In this post, we will examine our endeavor in the creation of a private NuGet repository.
perforce
Owmm Backend Code Development Workflow
The following provides a description of the workflow use during the development of the OWMM service. We are assuming that the development is divided into epi...
performance
Delay Load Non Essential Scripts
Everyone wants their page to be popular on social networks, but social network scripts tend to be large and can cause sluggish response for the user. Waiting...
Poor Client Implementation Results With Unexpected Bursts In Backend
In this short post, we will examine a small error in our client library implementation that lead to unexpected bursts of calls to our backend service.
Add Https To Web Sites
Transforming a http website to a https website requires the use of a digital certificate. These certificates are typically issued by a trusting authoring suc...
Debugging Asp Net Applications With Glimpse And Glimpse Hud
Glimpse is like the FireBug client side debugger, except it’s implemented in JavaScript on the client side with hooks in to ASP.NET on the Server Side.
Maximize Wcf Performance
Service Definition For the given service definition below,
Make Use Of Outputcache
Make use of the OutputCache annotation on MVC controllers. If the server can serve from memory, rather than going to disk or database, that’s a good win.
Use Caching As Last Resort
Caching is not synonymous with performance. Your code should already be efficient. Caching should only be used as a last resort, after you’ve made all possib...
Do Not Assume Problems Arises Only From Business Logic
When beginning to diagnose performance problems, we often assume the problem is in our business logic. Don’t forget that the areas of our code that provide i...
Do Not Underestimate The Value Of The Ui When Tackling Performance Problems
Simple UI tricks, such as progress bars, redirecting users’ attention using animation, or placing slower loading sections at the bottom of a page or offscree...
Caching Infrequently Updated Data
For small sets of data that are infrequently updated, consider making a method for caching them in the memory of your application server rather than constant...
Avoid Large Viewstate When Possible
In this post, we will look at why we should avoid large view state when possible.
Examine Performance On Both Client And Server Side
Traditionally, many performance problems have been rooted in the backend; either the database or application server. However, with the proliferation of advan...
Avoid Using Session State
Where possible, you should try and avoid using session state, especially in process session state. While using one web server, performance is usually not a p...
Avoid Running Sites In Debug Mode
This may sound simple but it is so easy to forget. Do not publish your ASP.NET application in debug mode. We can do as much optimizations in our code as we w...
Choose The Appropriate Cluster Index
You get exactly one clustered index on a table. Ensure you have it in the right place. First choice is the most frequently accessed column, which may or may ...
Do Not Blindly Generate Crud Queries
Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) queries can all be generated from the ORM tool without the need for intervention. But, the Read queries generated are...
Know And Use The Css Cascade Rules
Simple id and class selectors are useful, but using them exclusively means the markup gets messier and less reusable with unnecessary ids and classes. Using ...
Fully Prefix Vendor Specific Css Properties To Future Proof Them
As new draft standards progress, browser vendors sometimes get a jump on the standard by adding support via prefixed properties. To ensure that the CSS conti...
Solve Compatibility Problems With Valid Css Rules, Not Css Parser Hacks
CSS parser hacks are unreliable because browsers can be updated causing these hacks to fail. Instead try adding version-specific classes to the html or body ...
Run As Little Script As Possible When The Document Is Ready
Techniques such as jQuery’s $(document).ready() make it easy to run script as soon as the HTML on the page is loaded, which is usually the earliest possible ...
Avoid Inline Javascript Tags In Html Markup
As with external script references, an inline script requires the browser to stop parsing HTML and can also prevent parallel downloading of other resources o...
Variables, Parameters And Columns Data Types
Ensure your variables and parameters are the same data types as the columns. An implicit or explicit conversion can lead to table scans and slow performance.
Move Only The Data You Require
SELECT * is not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s a good idea to only move the data you really need to move and only when you really need it, in order to avo...
Sql String Data Types Which One
When creating a field which will contains text, it is important to choose the right string type in order to save space and increase performance.
Only Load What’s Needed
Implement different database queries in different contexts. In the API and on a webpage, you’ll inevitably require different entity properties, so don’t load...
Profile Your Orm Database Hits
Always profile your ORM database hits with SQL Profiler during development. ORMs get away from you very quickly. Before you know it, you’ve run a query 2000 ...
Enabled ‘optimized For Ad Hoc’ When Using Orm Code Generation
Since the code generated from the ORM can frequently be ad hoc, ensure that the SQL Server instance has ‘Optimize for Ad Hoc’ enabled. This will store a plan...
Lazy Load Vs A Single Database Hit
Watch out for lazy loading in ORMs. You shouldn’t lazy load any entities that could be retrieved with a single database hit.
Make Sure Paging Is Conducted At The Database Layer
When using grid UI controls (framework based, or 3rd party owned), you should carefully consider how paging is implemented. Many controls implement paging in...
Verify Parameter Size Versus Data Type Within The Table
Be sure your code is generating a parameter size equivalent to the data type defined within table in the database. Some ORM tools size the parameter to the s...
Orm Doesn’t Mean You Have To Abandon The Relational Storage Design
Avoid following the ‘Hello World’ examples provided with your ORM tool that turns it into an Object to Object Mapping. Database storage is not the same as ob...
Use Parameterized Queries Or Store Procedures
Parameterized queries are exactly the same as stored procedures in terms of performance and memory management. Since most ORM tools can use either stored pro...
Index On Specific Columns
Performance is enhanced when indexes are placed on columns used in WHERE, JOIN, ORDER BY, GROUP, and TOP. Always test to ensure that the index does help perf...
Consider Creating Web Garden For Stateless Applications
By default each Application Pool runs with a Single Worker Process (W3Wp.exe). We can assign multiple Worker Processes With a Single Application Pool. An App...
Avoid Inline Javascript
Similarly to external JavaScript, inline script requires the browser to stop parsing the HTML and can also prevent the parallel downloading of other resource...
Bypass The Limit Of 2 Tcp Ip Connections
Make sure you are not limited by 2 tcp ip connections when you don’t need to The default setting for the maximum amount of connection is two per connection g...
Careful With Inline Javascript
An example would be
poc
Project Codename Fedex
The following represents the very high level design of the next generation file transfer system codenamed Fedex.
Asset Transfer System
Use Case
Private Nuget Repository
In this post, we will examine our endeavor in the creation of a private NuGet repository.
Poc Dns Load Balancing
The purpose of this proof of concept is to investigate and determine a strategy to load balance web server geographically via DNS entries. In essence, given ...
prototype
Open World Position Based Matchmaking Algorithm (wip)
This is a very early draft without any structure or the like. I did it mostly for storage purposes.
publish
Xamarin Forms Android App Signing Consideration
In this post, we will examine a minor but important difference in the app signing process between Android and Windows apps.
pwa
Porting Native To Pwa Service Workers Https
Using service worker you can hijack connections, fabricate, and filter responses. Powerful stuff. While you would use these powers for good, a man-in-the-...
Porting Native To Pwa Same Origin Policy
This post examine a potential issue when porting a native app to PWA.
Porting Cordova To Pwa Onsen Ui
This post examines porting a Cordova app built with Onsen UI to PWA.
Cross Platform Mobile Development Revisited
This post documents the different technologies investigated for cross-platform mobile development.
Progressive Web Apps On Ios
In this post, we will examine the reason why Apple might be relunctant to support Progressive Web Apps (PWA) on iOS devices.
renderer
Xamarin Forms Rendering Differences
This post examines one nagging issue with respect to how Xamarin Forms render native controls.
runtime
Xamarin Forms Missing Images In Release
The images in my app were initially embedded in the assembly of my PCL. They would be retrieved as follow:
security
Always Perform Server Side Validation
This isn’t exactly a performance tip but rather a security tip for when people think that they could improve performance by cutting out server-side validatio...
services
size
Microservices Sizing
NTP Service
system
Loot System Analysis With Game Server
Introduction
Alert System Overview
Synopsis
Loot System With Guard Items
Introduction
tdd
Test Automation
Definition
team
Team Technical Objectives
Overview
Ups Vision Meeting Notes
The final goal of this set of meetings is to establish a clear vision of our solutions in order to present a homogeneous image of our direction towards ourse...
test
Test Automation
Definition
tips
Setup Readme For Visual Studio Welcome Page
This post documents how to use a README.md appear as the welcome page when loading a solution in Visual Studio.
Code Review Checklist
The following is a simple checklist for code review.
Database Continuous Integration
Context
Delay Load Non Essential Scripts
Everyone wants their page to be popular on social networks, but social network scripts tend to be large and can cause sluggish response for the user. Waiting...
Add Https To Web Sites
Transforming a http website to a https website requires the use of a digital certificate. These certificates are typically issued by a trusting authoring suc...
Debug Wcf Service With Message Logging
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides the capability to log incoming and outgoing messages for offline consumption. Message logging enables you to ...
Maximize Wcf Performance
Service Definition For the given service definition below,
Make Use Of Outputcache
Make use of the OutputCache annotation on MVC controllers. If the server can serve from memory, rather than going to disk or database, that’s a good win.
Use Caching As Last Resort
Caching is not synonymous with performance. Your code should already be efficient. Caching should only be used as a last resort, after you’ve made all possib...
Do Not Assume Problems Arises Only From Business Logic
When beginning to diagnose performance problems, we often assume the problem is in our business logic. Don’t forget that the areas of our code that provide i...
Do Not Underestimate The Value Of The Ui When Tackling Performance Problems
Simple UI tricks, such as progress bars, redirecting users’ attention using animation, or placing slower loading sections at the bottom of a page or offscree...
Caching Infrequently Updated Data
For small sets of data that are infrequently updated, consider making a method for caching them in the memory of your application server rather than constant...
Always Perform Server Side Validation
This isn’t exactly a performance tip but rather a security tip for when people think that they could improve performance by cutting out server-side validatio...
Avoid Large Viewstate When Possible
In this post, we will look at why we should avoid large view state when possible.
Examine Performance On Both Client And Server Side
Traditionally, many performance problems have been rooted in the backend; either the database or application server. However, with the proliferation of advan...
Avoid Using Session State
Where possible, you should try and avoid using session state, especially in process session state. While using one web server, performance is usually not a p...
Avoid Running Sites In Debug Mode
This may sound simple but it is so easy to forget. Do not publish your ASP.NET application in debug mode. We can do as much optimizations in our code as we w...
Choose The Appropriate Cluster Index
You get exactly one clustered index on a table. Ensure you have it in the right place. First choice is the most frequently accessed column, which may or may ...
Do Not Blindly Generate Crud Queries
Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) queries can all be generated from the ORM tool without the need for intervention. But, the Read queries generated are...
Use Feature Detection Over Browser User Agent
The userAgent string is a poor indicator of whether a particular feature (or bug) is present. To compound the problem, much of the code that interprets userA...
Take advantage of .net 4.5 async constructs
With the arrival of .NET 4.5, writing async code correctly is easier than ever. Like any tool, it should be only applied where it makes most sense – in web u...
Maximize expiration for static content
Always set the CacheControlMaxAge attribute in web.config to a high number (a year is good). You don’t want people pulling down the same static content they ...
Know your loops
For is the fastest way of iterating over a collection, foreach is a little slower, and LINQ queries are slowest.
Always Use A Standards Based Doctype To Avoid Quirks Mode
Start with <!DOCTYPE html>. The modern web has no place for Quirks Mode, which was designed so that mid-1990s web pages would be usable in turn-of-the...
Populate Controls Before Viewstate Is Being Tracked
If you do need ViewState, understand the page lifecycle and bind your data appropriately. A control loads its ViewState after Page_Init and before Page_Load,...
Turn Off Viewstate When Not Needed On Single Value Controls
Unless you’re tracking a Text_Changed event, you don’t need ViewState enabled on TextBoxes and similar controls. Classic ASP.NET automatically repopulates Te...
Turn Off Viewstate By Default And Turn On When Needed
Make it your habit to turn off ViewState on every control by default, and only turn it on when you need it. If a page doesn’t need ViewState anywhere, turn i...
Turn Off Viewstate When Not Needed On List Controls And Use Caching
The same goes for most implementations of Repeaters, ListViews, and so on. These are usually the biggest culprits and they can be ugly. The advantage of View...
Dropdownlist And Viewstate
You may think it’s impossible to turn off ViewState on a DropDownList, even if you re-bind it on every postback. But with a tiny bit of elbow grease you can ...
Turn Off Viewstate When You Are Rebinding The Data
If you’re re-binding data anyway, or just toggling one property on postback (asp:Panel anyone?), turn off that ViewState! Please!
For A Snappy User Experience, Always Validate On The Client
To avoid unnecessary round trips to the server, validate form entries on the client using JavaScript before posting them. This provides quick feedback and ma...
Use Miniprofiler During Development
Get MiniProfiler and configure it to always run when you hit your site (just don’t enable it for the general public). You’ll get detailed execution times and...
Elmah (error Logging Modules And Handlers) With Sql Server Compact
ELMAH supports many formats for storing errors, but I think that SQL Server Compact is a great choice for small to medium size applications.
Stringbuilder Is Not The Answer For All String Concatenation Scenarios String.join Could Be
Yes, if you are in a loop and adding to a string, then a StringBuilder could be most appropriate. However, the overhead of spinning up a StringBuilder instan...
Review What Client Scripts You Are Using
Out of the box, many ASP.NET projects include client script libraries which you may or may not be using. It’s always a good idea to check what you are using,...
Remove Unused Http Modules
Make sure you’ve removed HTTP modules that aren’t being used (Windows authentication, for example), and that you’ve disabled services such as FTP and SMTP, i...
Remove Unused View Engines
If you’re an ASP.NET MVC developer, you might not know that ASP.NET still loads the View Engines for both Razor and Web Forms by default. This can cause perf...
Reduce Memory Leaks Dramatically With The “using” Statement
If a type implements IDisposable, wrap the use of it in a “using” statement, so that it automatically disposes of objects properly when the block exits.
When In Production, Carefully Consider What You Need To Log
Many people deploy to production without checking how logging is currently configured. It is always advisable to check whether your policy is to have logging...
Use Microsoft’s Pdbs To Debug Or Profile External Assemblies Or Libraries
To accurately debug or profile an external assembly or library (i.e. one you’re not directly compiling), you need the PDB files that accompany each of the DL...
Use The Startmode Attribute To Reduce The Load Time For Your Asp.net Site
Every time you update your site, IIS must recompile it during the first request, so the initial request takes significantly longer than subsequent ones. An e...
Throw Hardware At The Problem, Not Developers
As developers, we often want to fix problems with code, but don’t be afraid to ‘put the compiler down’ and throw some hardware at the problem. Performance pr...
Before Tackling Any Website Performance Issue, First Verify The Problem Isn’t On The Client
Traditionally, many performance problems have been rooted in either the database or application server. However, with the proliferation of advanced JavaScrip...
Static Collections
If a collection is static, make sure it only contains the objects you need. If the collection is iterated over often, then the performance can be slow if you...
Use A Content Delivery Network
Use a content delivery network (CDN) for hosting images and scripts. They may be cached and it will reduce load on your server.
Pre Fetch Components With Ajax
Use AJAX to retrieve components asynchronously that may not be needed immediately, such as the content of a collapsed panel, content behind a tab, and so on.
Script References Should Be At The Bottom Of The Page
Add script references at the bottom of the page, because asynchronous downloads halt when a script reference is reached. Style sheets and images can be downl...
Reduce The Data Sent Across The Network
Reducing the amount of data sent across the network can improve application performance significantly. Compressing CSS and JavaScript is possible using bundl...
Turn On Http Compression
Make sure HTTP compression is turned on for any uncompressed content. HTML in particular compresses significantly, and in this era of mobile friendliness and...
Use Image Sprites When Appropriate
Use image sprites to retrieve smaller images in one download.
Include Height And Width Of Image
Including height and width in tags will allow your page to render more quickly, because space can be allocated for the image before it is downloaded.
Know And Use The Css Cascade Rules
Simple id and class selectors are useful, but using them exclusively means the markup gets messier and less reusable with unnecessary ids and classes. Using ...
Fully Prefix Vendor Specific Css Properties To Future Proof Them
As new draft standards progress, browser vendors sometimes get a jump on the standard by adding support via prefixed properties. To ensure that the CSS conti...
Solve Compatibility Problems With Valid Css Rules, Not Css Parser Hacks
CSS parser hacks are unreliable because browsers can be updated causing these hacks to fail. Instead try adding version-specific classes to the html or body ...
Run As Little Script As Possible When The Document Is Ready
Techniques such as jQuery’s $(document).ready() make it easy to run script as soon as the HTML on the page is loaded, which is usually the earliest possible ...
Avoid Inline Javascript Tags In Html Markup
As with external script references, an inline script requires the browser to stop parsing HTML and can also prevent parallel downloading of other resources o...
Put Css File References At The Top Of The Html File
Putting CSS files in the body can result in the browser showing a blank page until the CSS has loaded. CSS files should go into the head of the HTML document...
Understand The Backward Compatibility Limits Of Html5 Tags
New HTML5 tags like <section>, <header>, and <footer> improve the semantics of markup, but require a special “shiv” script to run in Intern...
Sites Don’t Need To Render The Same Across All Browsers
A common concern among developers is ensuring that their sites render the same across all browsers, including non-modern ones. That’s not always necessary. A...
Use Polyfills And Shims Sparingly
If you absolutely need to provide the same experience across all browsers, polyfills and shims offer code and markup that can help mimic standards-based APIs...
Use A Build Process With Tools To Check For Errors And Minify Files
A good set of build tools such as HTML validators, CSS validators, Uglify, and JSHint, or GruntJS can find latent problems, enforce project code standards, a...
Start With A Solid Template To Simplify Development
Many of these tips are already built into a project template like HTML5 Boilerplate to save you some time. Those rules work equally well for projects targete...
Use Ie Compat Inspector To Help Migrate Your Site To Standards Based Code
Standards are a core part of Internet Explorer 10 and helping developers migrate their code to take advantage of this is incredibly important to the IE engin...
Focus On Stable Standards
It’s easy to get excited every time a new and cool feature comes out but some of these may still be experimental with the specification still under developme...
Test In Multiple Browsers While Developing
Although modern browsers are much closer to a single standard than ever before, differences still exist. An occasional multi-browser sanity checkpoint during...
Variables, Parameters And Columns Data Types
Ensure your variables and parameters are the same data types as the columns. An implicit or explicit conversion can lead to table scans and slow performance.
Move Only The Data You Require
SELECT * is not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s a good idea to only move the data you really need to move and only when you really need it, in order to avo...
Sql String Data Types Which One
When creating a field which will contains text, it is important to choose the right string type in order to save space and increase performance.
Only Load What’s Needed
Implement different database queries in different contexts. In the API and on a webpage, you’ll inevitably require different entity properties, so don’t load...
Profile Your Orm Database Hits
Always profile your ORM database hits with SQL Profiler during development. ORMs get away from you very quickly. Before you know it, you’ve run a query 2000 ...
Enabled ‘optimized For Ad Hoc’ When Using Orm Code Generation
Since the code generated from the ORM can frequently be ad hoc, ensure that the SQL Server instance has ‘Optimize for Ad Hoc’ enabled. This will store a plan...
Lazy Load Vs A Single Database Hit
Watch out for lazy loading in ORMs. You shouldn’t lazy load any entities that could be retrieved with a single database hit.
Make Sure Paging Is Conducted At The Database Layer
When using grid UI controls (framework based, or 3rd party owned), you should carefully consider how paging is implemented. Many controls implement paging in...
Verify Parameter Size Versus Data Type Within The Table
Be sure your code is generating a parameter size equivalent to the data type defined within table in the database. Some ORM tools size the parameter to the s...
Orm Doesn’t Mean You Have To Abandon The Relational Storage Design
Avoid following the ‘Hello World’ examples provided with your ORM tool that turns it into an Object to Object Mapping. Database storage is not the same as ob...
Use Parameterized Queries Or Store Procedures
Parameterized queries are exactly the same as stored procedures in terms of performance and memory management. Since most ORM tools can use either stored pro...
Index On Specific Columns
Performance is enhanced when indexes are placed on columns used in WHERE, JOIN, ORDER BY, GROUP, and TOP. Always test to ensure that the index does help perf...
Consider Creating Web Garden For Stateless Applications
By default each Application Pool runs with a Single Worker Process (W3Wp.exe). We can assign multiple Worker Processes With a Single Application Pool. An App...
Avoid Inline Javascript
Similarly to external JavaScript, inline script requires the browser to stop parsing the HTML and can also prevent the parallel downloading of other resource...
Bypass The Limit Of 2 Tcp Ip Connections
Make sure you are not limited by 2 tcp ip connections when you don’t need to The default setting for the maximum amount of connection is two per connection g...
Careful With Inline Javascript
An example would be
transfer
Asset Transfer System
Use Case
tutorial
Scaling Dedicated Game Servers With Kubernetes
Scaling Dedicated Game Servers with Kubernetes
Kubernetes Best Practices
Kubernetes Best Practices
Kubernetes Basics
Kubernetes Basics
Create Asp Net Core Docker App
In this post, we will look at building ASP.NET Core Docker App. We will first examine how to do this without Visual Studio and then with Visual Studio Tools ...
Create Net Core Docker App
In this post, we will look at building .NET Core Docker App. We will first examine how to do this without Visual Studio and then with Visual Studio Tools for...
What Is Container Technology
The following articles provides a basic introduction to containers technologies. It would allow the reader to gain an understanding of what are containers an...
uwp
Xamarin Forms Opening App Store
In this short post, we will examine how to open the native App Store on Android and Windows towards a specific app. This is useful when you want to advertise...
virtualization
Data Virtualization
Overview
vision
Ups Vision Meeting Notes
The final goal of this set of meetings is to establish a clear vision of our solutions in order to present a homogeneous image of our direction towards ourse...
visual studio
Setup Readme For Visual Studio Welcome Page
This post documents how to use a README.md appear as the welcome page when loading a solution in Visual Studio.
wcf
Debug Wcf Service With Message Logging
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides the capability to log incoming and outgoing messages for offline consumption. Message logging enables you to ...
Maximize Wcf Performance
Service Definition For the given service definition below,
web
Debugging Asp Net Applications With Glimpse And Glimpse Hud
Glimpse is like the FireBug client side debugger, except it’s implemented in JavaScript on the client side with hooks in to ASP.NET on the Server Side.
Use Feature Detection Over Browser User Agent
The userAgent string is a poor indicator of whether a particular feature (or bug) is present. To compound the problem, much of the code that interprets userA...
Take advantage of .net 4.5 async constructs
With the arrival of .NET 4.5, writing async code correctly is easier than ever. Like any tool, it should be only applied where it makes most sense – in web u...
Maximize expiration for static content
Always set the CacheControlMaxAge attribute in web.config to a high number (a year is good). You don’t want people pulling down the same static content they ...
Always Use A Standards Based Doctype To Avoid Quirks Mode
Start with <!DOCTYPE html>. The modern web has no place for Quirks Mode, which was designed so that mid-1990s web pages would be usable in turn-of-the...
web service
Poor Client Implementation Results With Unexpected Bursts In Backend
In this short post, we will examine a small error in our client library implementation that lead to unexpected bursts of calls to our backend service.
wip
Project Codename Fedex
The following represents the very high level design of the next generation file transfer system codenamed Fedex.
Code Review Checklist
The following is a simple checklist for code review.
Database Continuous Integration
Context
The Definition Of Done
Code Logging Profile Test Review
workflow
Owmm Backend Code Development Workflow
The following provides a description of the workflow use during the development of the OWMM service. We are assuming that the development is divided into epi...
Owmm Design Workflow
The following provides a description of the workflow use during the design of the OWMM service. It focuses mainly on the design docs that will be the foundat...
xamarin
Cross Platform Mobile Development Revisited
This post documents the different technologies investigated for cross-platform mobile development.
Xamarin Webview Issues Binding To Html Source
In this post, we will look at an issue regarding Xamarin WebView and its ability to bind directly to HTML source.
Xamarin Forms Missing Images In Release
The images in my app were initially embedded in the assembly of my PCL. They would be retrieved as follow:
Xamarin Forms Exit Code 1 Error After Adding Libraries
In this post, we will examine a build error that be initially be baffling. In essence, after adding a library to your Xamarin Forms Android project, we end u...
Xamarin Forms Opening App Store
In this short post, we will examine how to open the native App Store on Android and Windows towards a specific app. This is useful when you want to advertise...
Xamarin Forms Android App Signing Consideration
In this post, we will examine a minor but important difference in the app signing process between Android and Windows apps.
Using Custom Renderers To Display Ads From Google Admob On Xamarin.forms
How to use Custom Renders to display ads from Google AdMob on Xamarin.Forms. This tutorial outlines the necessary steps for Android and Windows Phone but can...
Xamarin Missing Libmonodroid Error
Today, I ran into a small issue when working on my Xamarin Forms Android application. In essence, my application would run fine in debug mode but it would co...
Xamarin Forms Rendering Differences
This post examines one nagging issue with respect to how Xamarin Forms render native controls.
Cross Platform Mobile Development
This post documents the different technologies investigated for cross-platform mobile development.