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"Show me some stats!!" Recently I was trying to get some quick-and-dirty analysis of an API-based website done. The site was written in PHP and running under nginx on multiple Linux boxes (load-balanced). I wanted to be able to answer questions like this: How many hits per day is the API getting hit? What is …
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"But I don’t want a scrollbar!!" Read The Docs is a great platform for creating documentation that lets you focus on content rather than complex markup syntax or making it searchable. One of the elements you might want to put in your documentation is a table. There are different ways to create a table, and …
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First Forays into ASP.NET Core (2.0) I recently have been taking my first forays into ASP.NET Core and am liking what I’m seeing so far. The journey hasn’t been without curveballs, though, and I’ll be posting a few findings here. New Project using Kendo UI Core and TypeScript A project I recently set up using VS 2017 …
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Introduction Creating great front-end web user experiences can be very intimidating – from good visual design, good user-friendly form components and elements (like date-pickers, combo boxes, etc), responsive design, and AJAX interactions. By leveraging the technology within TypeScript, Bootstrap, and Kendo UI for …
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Introduction This article dives off in another direction from standard .Net stuff and moves into the realm of Makers. I’ve been participating in my son’s school Thursday afternoon Makers Club with them with a Raspberry Pi 2 (note: the new Raspberry Pi 3 would likely also work just fine for this stuff) and a Pi Sense …
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This article continues the process started in [part 1(https://knowyourtoolset.com/2015/08/secure-web-apis-with-swagger-swashbuckle-and-oauth2-part-1/)] which concluded with us having an API that has both anonymous and secure methods that can be called, and a Swagger interface provided by Swashbuckle. For this post, I …
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This article continues the process started in part 1 which concluded with us having an API that has both anonymous and secure methods that can be called, and a Swagger interface provided by Swashbuckle. What remains now is the real meat of what I was trying to accomplish: Making sure we can use the Swagger interface …
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I wanted to go down the path of creating a shiny new custom enterprise-grade API framework that includes the following features: Easy to navigate documentation and testability via a Swagger interface that can be tested/tried right on the site hosting the API Authenticated access for customers and clients using an …
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