×

days ago.

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#

Read now

days ago.

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

Read now

days ago.

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

Read now

days ago.

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

Read now

days ago.

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

Read now

days ago.

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

Read now

days ago.

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

Read now

days ago.

z-index Is Confusing, but It Doesn't Have to Be

Ted Krueger

CSS

Read now

days ago.

Logging ASP.NET Web API 2 Failed Request Body to ...

Ken Dale

Debugging web applications can be difficult sometimes. When debugging a failed HTTP GET request in Application Insights you have all of t...

.NET

Read now

days ago.

Using forEach for IE 11

Andrew Rady

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 u...

JavaScript IE 11

Read now

days ago.

Understanding Dart Sass modules and namespaced va...

Kevin Hougasian

For a long time, we were dependent on the CSS frameworks of others – and we were quite happy. 😀 As our needs grew, we needed a framework...

Sass Dart Sass

Read now

days ago.

Autofac: Eager vs Lazy Construction During Regist...

Ken Dale

Autofac is an inversion of control container for .NET. It allows developers to register items and then later use those registrations to i...

.NET

Read now

days ago.

Writing a Browser Compatible Date Input

Jaime Jones

Working with dates can seem a little daunting sometimes. We need specific formatting, and hopefully we don’t have to deal with timezones ...

JavaScript Vue HTML

Read now

days ago.

Non Pro/Premier SendGrid Accounts May Have Issues...

Ken Dale

We recently started using SendGrid to send emails in production. As part of that, we noticed that emails to outlook.com, hotmail.com, msn...

SendGrid

Read now

days ago.

Vue 3 Composition API

Seth Kline

Have you found yourself getting lost in large Vue components that have multiple features? The Composition API is a new optional syntax in...

vue3 composition frontend development

Read now

days ago.

Upcoming Google Chrome SameSite Change Breaks Our...

Ken Dale

According to https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5088147346030592 at the time of this blog post Chrome 80 is targeted to default cookies...

.NET

Read now

days ago.

A Case Of Newtonsoft.Json, TypeNameHandling.All, ...

Ken Dale

Our RimDev.FeatureFlags library uses Newtonsoft.Json as part of roundtripping the on/off state in SQL. With that we use TypeNameHandling....

.NET

Read now

days ago.

Ordering of static fields in C# matters

Bill Boga

I never thought ordering of relational static fields and properties in C# mattered. And, then, I started getting NREs on a property I kno...

C#

Read now

days ago.

Avoiding a LINQ FirstOrDefault mishap

Bill Boga

.NET’s LINQ library has extension-methods that will return a default-value if not found in a collection. These are a great time-saver if ...

.NET LINQ

Read now

days ago.

Artifact Conference 2019

Seth Kline

How are we building our websites? Are they truly for everyone or if we ask ourselves honestly are they just for us? The way we currently ...

care performance UI/UX frontend development

Read now

Andrew Rady

Getting Started Testing Vue Components

Andrew Rady

7

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