29 Jul 2018
I love bootstrap (and other css frameworks). For a developer like me who often works on web projects without any design input it is a real lifesaver. The problem is since bootstrap is a kitchen sink type framework (although you...
01 Jul 2018
It has been a long time since I posted about or contributed to FluentEmail, the open source .net email package I created way back in 2010. During that time (largely thanks to the awesome work by Ben Cull) fluent email...
18 Apr 2018
Caching is a great way to get improve the performance of your application - either enabling high load scenarios or papering over some bad code to make life bearable. I have always favoured a simple “GetOrCreate” style caching API so...
14 Apr 2018
I have been working on a ASP.NET Core project that requires me to build and publish sass stylesheets, css and javascript. I wanted to streamline the process so I put together this simple webpack setup to automate what had been...
09 Apr 2018
It has been a couple of years (kids will do that) in the wilderness but I am back working on my blog and on an exciting new project. Austechjobs is a job board focusing on technology jobs in Australia. This...
24 Jan 2013
Recently I’ve been hacking together a little online poll creator - pollfu. For the app I needed to have the option to embed the poll on an external website. One of the best examples of this is the checkout widget...
15 Nov 2012
Billminder, my first windows 8 app has finally hit the store. This is how I describe it in my wanky store description: Billminder is a minimalist and elegant solution for controlling your expenses. With innovative infographic style display you can...
09 Jul 2012
I have been doing some Windows 8 development recently and decided to work with html, css and javascript rather than c# and xaml. I am mainly a .net guy and was a little worried about how javascript would work for...
10 Jun 2012
See an updated (2018) example of sending in .NET core email using FluentEmail. Fluent Email is a simple wrapper for System.Net.Mail that provides a fluent interface for constructing and sending emails in .Net. It also provides a Razor based template...
28 May 2012
A project I have been working on recently stores amounts of money along with the currency they are in. I was getting sick of the old amount + currency_code style of display and decided to see if I could hack...