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Monitoring SQL Server: setting up ELK+G

In 9 cases out of 10 our clients have some sort of database that they want to interface with. And 8 out of those 9 cases the database is going […]

Posted bytimur13/09/201911/03/2020Posted inDev TipsTags: howto, monitoring1 Comment on Monitoring SQL Server: setting up ELK+G

Custom Routing in .NET WebAPI

We all need to do weird things sometimes. One assignment we’ve got was to implement an API that would totally obfuscate all parameters in a Base64 encoded string. This will […]

Posted bytimur06/06/201904/03/2020Posted inDev TipsTags: c#, howto, httpcontext, webapi

Programmatically submitting Google Forms with AngularJs

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Google Forms is a viable way to do business. We’ve seen a few successful compaines that rely on it for day-to-day operations. The flow would normally involve users entering data […]

Posted bytimur22/04/201922/02/2020Posted inDev TipsTags: angularjs, google-forms, howto, js

Making Swagger to get the authorization token from URL query string

Swagger is extremely useful when developing and debugging Web APIs. Some dev environments however got a bit of security added on top which can get a bit too painful to […]

Posted bytimur20/02/201917/02/2020Posted inDev TipsTags: c#, howto, swagger

Integration testing aide for MVC core routing

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Sometimes unit tests just don’t cut it. This is where integration tests come in. This however brings a whole new set of issues with finding the beast way to isolate […]

Posted bytimur16/12/201816/02/2020Posted inDev TipsTags: c#, howto

Moq-ing around existing instance

We love unit testing! Seriously, it makes sense if you consider how many times a simple test had saved us from having to revisit that long forgotten project we’ve already […]

Posted bytimur14/11/201817/02/2020Posted inDev TipsTags: c#, howto, moq

.NET Membership audit

In previous article we’ve got through the setup and prepared a hash list for us to work on. And it’s perfectly valid for running through a smaller list of words […]

Posted bytimur19/10/201823/02/2020Posted inDev TipsTags: howto, infosec

Hacking custom Start Action in Visual Studio 2017

As part of our technical debt collection commitment we do deal with weird situations where simply running a solution in Visual Studio might not be enough. A recent example to […]

Posted bytimur15/09/201804/03/2020Posted inDev TipsTags: c#, howto, visual studio

Landing pages made easy

Do more with less Every now and then customers would like us to build them a landing page with as little development and running overhead as possible.First thing that pops […]

Posted bytimur08/09/201804/03/2020Posted inDev TipsTags: howto

Oops I did it again: git disaster recovery

Houston, we have a problem So, you’ve accidentally pushed your commit before realising it breaks everything? Or maybe the merge you’ve been working on for the last 2 hours has […]

Posted bytimur23/08/201804/03/2020Posted inDev TipsTags: git, howto

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