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PowerShell Quickstart – How to get up and running fast!
If you’re seeking to get up and running quickly with PowerShell and you aren’t sure where to start, you’ve come to the right place! PowerShell is an invaluable scripting tool for both system administrators and developers alike. Getting up to speed with it will make for a very useful addition to your toolkit. In this…
Stepping up the security of ASP.NET Core web apps with security headers
Now, more than ever before, employing security best practices from the start is an absolute must when developing modern web applications. The threat landscape has evolved continuously over the last number of years, however, so have the protection mechanisms which we as software developers can avail of to guard our applications against attackers. In this…
Automate repetitive tasks with your new friend AutoIt
Automation is becoming increasingly prevalent in each of our lives and it is the key to increasing both business profitability and personal productivity. As a software developer, it is important to seek out ways to improve efficiency when dealing with repetitive day-to-day tasks or when a potentially time-consuming manual process comes across our path. In…
Diving into curl as an API developer
If you’ve been a developer for some time now, chances are you’ve heard of ‘curl’. Maybe you’ve stumbled across a reference to it on an API documentation page, then copied and pasted a command and thought nothing more of it. Many times I find that tools like curl have a lot of hidden powers that…
How to run programs remotely using PsExec
Have you ever wanted to run a program remotely across a network without needing to install or configure anything on the remote machine you wish to access? If the answer is yes then you’ll be pleased to know there is a way to accomplish this in a Windows environment using a very clever little command-line…
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Getting up to speed with Azure Cache for Redis
If you’re looking for a caching solution to help speed up a web application and Azure is your cloud platform of choice, it makes sense to use Azure Cache for Redis. Azure Cache for Redis is a secure, scalable, and reliable cloud-hosted caching solution. It is based on the very popular open-source Redis database cache…
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Recording custom telemetry with Azure Application Insights
Azure Application Insights is a powerful monitoring feature within the Azure cloud platform which can provide you with some pretty amazing insights into your web applications. By default, Application Insights captures a plethora of highly useful data points regarding both performance and user behaviour. The analysis of these metrics can assist you with speeding up…
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Why your ASP.NET Core views are not updating at runtime
If you have experience with ASP.NET but have only recently started building web applications with ASP.NET Core, you may have noticed that some of the features you are used to having during development, appear to be missing. One of the first things you are likely to notice when you start off with a new ASP.NET…
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