Live coding 4th session – Implementing backend with WebApi2 and EF Code First
Implemented the backend as a RESTful service using WebApi2 and persistent storage to a SQL database with Entity Framework Code First. In the next session I’ll implement support for multiple users and authentication with facebook. Live demo @ http://meetometer.azurewebsites.net/ Source code @ https://github.com/ajtowf/meetometer/ POST SCREENCAST EDIT Forgot to setup automatic upgrading on application startup since I […]
Entity Framework 6 Code First unreported breaking change/bug when migrating from version 5
Came a cross a nice bug in my golf score app on my season premiere round yesterday. I suddenly had a couple more strokes than I should with my HCP, although it seemed fair since it was the first round and all it didn’t make sense. I hadn’t made any (programmatic) changes to the code […]
Integrate blog engine into existing site
So I got BlogEngine.NET running on my personal tech blog (this site) and I want to add a simple news feed to my corporate site to announce various happenings and job openings. Wouldn’t it be great if I could just create a dedicated news blog here and then just display the posts on my company […]
Become your own Root Certificate Authority and Create Self-Signed SSL Certificates
Why do we want to do this? Sometimes having to pay for commercial SSL certificates isn’t an option. By creating your own Root Certificate you can sign your own certificates to allow you to quickly and cheaply secure internal websites or applications that use SSL. In this post we will Setup Cygwin and OpenSSL Generate […]
Updated blog engine and design
Took the time to migrate to blogengine 2.9 a couple of days ago, about time since the last theme didn’t even have responsive design. I really liked the default theme so I stuck with it, just made some simple tweaks to the layout. I also made some changes to the YoutubeViewer extension to make it responsive […]
Live coding session 3rd sitting – Storing meetings
Added some functionality to store meetings, everything still lives in the browser and local storage but now we have something meaningful to store and sync with the server that we’ll implement in the next session. Live demo @ http://meetometer.azurewebsites.net/ Source code @ https://github.com/ajtowf/meetometer/ Until next time, have a nice day! Keywords : VS2013, Azure, HTML5, JavaScript, […]
