I am still coming to grips with the power of SignalR. In this demo (from PluralSight.com “ASP.NET MVC 5 Fundamentals ” by Scott Allen), performance monitoring data is streamed to a browser client. SignalR is used in ASP.Net with MVC5. In this case windows authentication was used to authenticate the user on the client (understandably so). http://smoothiecharts.org/ javascript was used to display the graphs. All very nice.
Been reading the wonderful tips and tricks in C# by Jason Roberts , bought to you by LeanPub . Also created a web project using signalR and Akka.net following the Jason Roberts course in Pluralsight. SignalR takes care of the communications between the (browser) client and (web) server, while Akka.net takes care of the (heavy) message processing. All very fascinating and works well under load.
For testing APIs, I use a tool called Postman. Its free and available on the Chrome Webstore. Install and launch the app. To test an api call which requires authentication, turn on the Interceptor in Postman This will prompt for a plugin to be installed in Chrome. Once you do that, login to your application in Chrome. The login credentials will be passed on to Postman and you can proceed with the API call testing.
From http to https. Today I went from here (http): to (https:) Thanks to Troy Hunt in providing the instructions. That post was written in Sep 2013. I had to conduct a few trial and errors to get https working for my site. Background: My blog ( richardborges.net ) is hosted on Azure site (richardborgesblog.azurewebsites.net). I have pointed richardborgesblog.azurewebsites.net to richardborges.net. Visit the excellent PluralSight course by Troy Hunt on how to do this. ...
Troy Hunt very informative article on how to load a free SSL certificate onto your Azure website. Thank you Troy. Written in 2013, but still relevant.
Get Stuff Done ! Got a whole lot of “to-dos” on my plate, covering : personal development, career growth, fulfilling some long outstanding dreams. amongst others. How exciting. Its going to be fun.
With all the different frameworks to be found for Web development, I came across this top-must-know-frameworks-for-net-web-developers (Ugo Lattanzi), by Ugo Lattanzi, which offers a good summary. The ASP.MVC link therein links on to free PluralSight courses. Good learning. BTW I have re-newed with Pluralsight. Great value for money IMHO.
Reading about Roy Osherove’’s views on Development Team Leadership. Quite interesting.
Inspired by ASP.Net MVC, Silicon Beach Sydney, Udemy and Guitar Online! Microsoft 30 days learn Also this speech by Tim Minchin UWA Address (2013) - YouTube