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Anti-XSS .NET libraries in 2013
One of the more important parts in Roadkill Wiki is removing malicious HTML from the markup that’s entered, even when the markup (Creole and Markdown) is controlled. The markup you enter is converted...
View ArticleUsing the this keyword with Typescript and a jQuery function
When you write Typescript, you’re forced by the compiler to use the “this” keyword when you want to access member variables or methods. If they’re static, you’re forced to use the name of the class (as...
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Roadkill reaches the magical 1000 unit test mark
Warning: this post contains large amounts of pro-automated-testing propaganda. Roadkill is now up to over 1000 tests (around 1150) as it gets near the version 2 release coming in 2014. Around three...
View ArticleAdding NETWORKSERVICE as a dbo user in SQL Server
If you want to enable integrated security in your SQL Server connection string, and don’t want to have to update your App Pool with a username across different machines you can simply add ‘NT...
View ArticleA C# UK bank holiday calculator
In the UK we’re fortunate enough to get 5 free holidays a year, under the guise of “Bank Holidays”. These are mostly on Mondays and come in January, March/April, May, August and December. Below is a...
View ArticleUsing Appveyor as Roadkill’s CI to run acceptance tests
A while ago Roadkill’s CI solution was hosted on Appharbor, which was a great solution (and free for a single project), but the configuration hacking and I problems with the hosted environment with the...
View Article.NET logging libraries compared
This is a short presentation I created for the company I work for, and gives my thoughts on the state of .NET logging libraries in 2014. My knowledge comes from day-to-day use of MSEntLib and log4net...
View ArticleStarting and stopping all IIS sites in Powershell
This is just a boring Powershell 4 snippet for starting and stopping IIS websites: Import-Module WebAdministration Get-ChildItem -Path IIS:\Sites | foreach { Stop-WebSite $_.Name; } Get-ChildItem -Path...
View ArticleConfiguring WCF in code
One of the main issues I have with WCF, compared to say a WebApi or a NancyFX based API, are the ridiculously large configuration options you have available. The ABC approach it uses (addresses,...
View ArticleWhat does a principal developer do?
Or to word it another way, What is a Principal Developer? I recently got asked this question at an internal (non-technology-based) event with about 50 people in the room. With a mixture of stage fright...
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