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Hugo Archetypes to the Rescue!

Steliana Vassileva

Using our Hugo-based documentation site, we typically publish release notes once per week. My usual process includes the following: M...

Documentation Hugo Archetypes

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CSS Only Dropdown Menu

Ted Krueger

As someone who basically gets by when it comes to writing Javascript, I tend to look at things from a “I bet I could do this with CSS” st...

CSS SCSS Mobile UX UI/UX frontend

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Welcome New Hire: Getting started in Frontend at ...

Kevin Hougasian

This is an updated post of the original here. Whether you’re new to the frontend at RIMdev or looking for more about our Frontend team...

Team RIMdev Frontend

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Tab Colors in Azure Data Studio

Steliana Vassileva

If you’ve ever worked in Azure Data Studio, you may find tab colors very useful. They allow you to visually separate different connectio...

Documentation Azure Data Studio

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Platform UI background image and gradient utilities

Kevin Hougasian

Ted Krueger

If you’re not familiar with Platform UI, it’s a utility rich CSS framework we created. As we look to migrate all of our apps and static ...

UI UX CSS Sass

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Vue 3 is official

Seth Kline

Get ready to celebrate because, as of Friday, September 18, 2020, Evan You, creator of Vue.js, announced Vue 3 is officially released. He...

vue3 frontend development

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Defaulting ASP.NET Core 3.1 To Require Authentica...

Ken Dale

Typically with ASP.NET Core 3.1 when no specific authorization requirements are set all endpoints are publicly accessible. When you’re wo...

asp.net core

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Customizing VueJS components with scoped slots

Chidozie Oragwu

If you have used slots in Vue, you know that it provides a clean way to vary content that is displayed in child components. For example, ...

VueJS Slots Scoped Slots JavaScript

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Swagger Grouping With Controller Name Fallback Us...

Ken Dale

We’ve been using Swagger via Swashbuckle for some time with our ASP.NET Full Framework applications. As we’re moving toward ASP.NET Core ...

asp.net core

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ASP.NET Core 3.1: Newtonsoft.Json Issues With Enu...

Ken Dale

We’ve spotted some strange behavior before with ASP.NET Core and JSON serialization/deserialization, and I eventually made it back to try...

asp.net core

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ASP.NET Core 3.1: Default System.Text.Json Settin...

Ken Dale

We’ve spotted some strange behavior before with ASP.NET Core and JSON serialization/deserialization, and I eventually made it back to try...

asp.net core

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CSS Only Tooltip for All Screen Sizes

Ted Krueger

As we create CSS components in our internal framework, we typically try to use little if no JS. Our tooltips should be no different. We...

UI/UX frontend CSS Responsive Design

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Elasticsearch With NEST Using C# nameof Not Working

Ken Dale

Imagine you’re using Elasticsearch with your strongly typed C# models and nameof(MyProperty) and wondering why it doesn’t work. Turns out...

.NET

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How to avoid NullReferenceException in C#

Cheng Yang

I have been working as a software developer for almost three years, the most common exception or bug I made is NullReferenceException -Sy...

.NET C#

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Getting Started Testing Vue Components

Andrew Rady

Testing is an important step we can take as developers to reduce bugs in our code, but testing seems to be one of the best practices that...

Vue.js Jest Testing

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How ConveyUX Can Convey Good Ideas

Natasha Kurus

Last week I attended the annual user experience conference Convey UX in Seattle, where 50 UX leaders from all over the world shared their...

UI/UX frontend conference conveyux2020 conveyux

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Running Database Migrations On Web Application St...

Ken Dale

We run a number of web applications at Ritter Insurance Marketing. Our primary datastore for these applications is MSSQL / SQL Azure. Our...

SQL

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Building ASP.NET Core 3.1 Apps To Organizational ...

Ken Dale

We’ve been working through upgrading our core applications from ASP.NET full framework to ASP.NET Core. Over the years we’ve assembled an...

.NET

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What Works and What Doesn't With ConfigurationMan...

Ken Dale

ConfigurationManager has long been used by .NET Framework developers prior to .NET Core to access things like app settings and connection...

.NET

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Regex Performance With and Without RegexOptions.C...

Ken Dale

We’ve had some internal discussion around the usage of RegexOptions.Compiled in .NET – how it works and when it’s appropriate to use it. ...

.NET

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Andrew Rady

Getting Started Testing Vue Components

Andrew Rady

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Testing is an important step we can take as developers to reduce bugs in our code, but testing seems to be one of the best practices that is skipped the most. When it comes to development I have no...

Vue.js Jest Testing

Using forEach for IE 11

Andrew Rady

3

Supporting IE comes with challenges if you are using es6, and while babel helps greatly there is a few gotcheas. One of the main one is using forEach on DOM elements. In modern browsers it’s pretty...

JavaScript IE 11

Polyfills to support IE 11 and non ES6 browsers

Andrew Rady

2

Standard Polyfills for Front End Getting your JavaScript applications working across all browsers is challenging. If you are writing your JavaScript using ES6 or ES5, then you are probably using s...

JavaScript Webpack Polyfills

Vue Group Transitions

Andrew Rady

4

Simple transitions Vue.js has an extremely helpful was to handle animations in web apps. In a simple example if we want to display something in a fade animation all we would need to do is wrap tha...

Vue.js JavaScript Animations

Vue CLI Environment Variables

Andrew Rady

4

In development it is common to not want to share everything in our code. Things like usernames, password, links to an api, and more should not be stored directly. Storing them in environment variab...

Vue.js JavaScript Webpack

Computed Side Effects in Vue.js

Andrew Rady

3

In Vue computed properties are a life saver when it comes to being able to add logic to data that we need to use in the UI. We want to keep the logic in the template to a minimal if possible and we...

Vue.js JavaScript

JavaScript Array Cloning: Objects vs Primitives

Andrew Rady

5

In JavaScript, we are always working with different data types to send to the API or display on the UI. Cloning and altering that clone is a very common thing we do every day. Sometimes we only wan...

JavaScript

Vue Import Paths

Andrew Rady

3

In today’s front-end ecosystem we are breaking down code into separate files and importing them. This helps us separate out code and reuse it more effectively. Vue does this in components similar t...

Web Vue JavaScript Webpack