Ryadel

Configure HTTP Basic Authentication on NGINX How to implement HTTP Basic Authentication in a NGINX web server to restrict access for your website users with a simple username/password challenge

November 16, 2020February 15, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In this guide we'll see how we can implement a password-based authentication mechanism on our NGINX web servers using HTTP Basic Authentication: a simple auth method that allows webmasters to …

Ecco perché NON dovresti comprare un SSD Sabrent Rocket

Hardware / RAM, HDD & SSD

Here's why you should NOT buy a Sabrent Rocket SSD A list of good reasons to stay away from the Sabrent Rocket line of SSD drives, especially the Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280

November 11, 2020December 14, 2020 - by Ryan - 38 Comments.

DISCLAIMER: all the opinions expressed in this article represent the personal belief of the author and are in no way oriented by commercial relations of any kind with Sabrent or …

Business innovation / Customer Services / SEO & Marketing / Servers & Services / Web

My (bad) customer experience with SEMrush The top rated SEO platform for managing online visibility doesn't seem to have a customer & sales support good enough to match its reputation

November 6, 2020November 6, 2020 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you are a bit passionate about SEO and online marketing, you have probably already heard of SEMrush, an extremely sophisticated platform that offers solutions to manage all aspects of …

Cloud / JavaScript / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities / Web

REPflare: a Cloudflare Worker to replace text and inject content A lightweight Cloudflare Worker that can be used to replace text and inject styles and scripts in any web page

November 2, 2020April 18, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In this post we'll talk about REPflare, a lightweight Cloudflare Worker that can be used to perform text replacement tasks as well as inject any kind of content (styles, scripts …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / JavaScript / Web

ASP.NET Core - Validate Antiforgery token in Ajax POST How to issue a proper Ajax POST request using jQuery or other JavaScript frameworks in an ASP.NET Core application with the Antiforgery Middleware and AntiForgeryToken enabled

October 30, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

If you've stumbled upon this article it most likely means that you're looking for a way to validate your ASP.NET Core Antiforgery Token when issuing an Ajax POST using jQuery …

ASP.NET / C#

System.Linq.Dynamic.Core - Case insensitive Contains() How to use the Contains() method in a case-insensitive way using Entity Framework Core and System.Linq.Dynamic.Core

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

A few days ago we published a small post explaining how to perform a case insensitive Contains query using Entity Framework Core, since the Contains() method changed its behaviour from …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding

ASP.NET Core Server.MapPath equivalent How to access the absolute path to the application content files in ASP.NET Core Application just like we did with Server.MapPath using IWebHostEnvironment

October 19, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - 6 Comments.

If you've stumbled upon this post there's a high chance that you're a seasoned ASP or ASP.NET Web Developer who is trying to find an alternative to the good old …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Web

ASP.NET Core C# - Send email messages with SendGrid API How to send transactional e-mail messages from a ASP.NET Core C# web application using Twilio SendGrid API

October 18, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

A few days ago we've published a guide explaining how to send email messages via SMTP with MailKit implementing a custom MailKitEmailSender class based upon the ASP.NET Core built-in IEmailSender …

Coding

Entity Framework Core: case-insensitive Contains() In Entity Framework, the Contains() method used to be case-insensitive: however, such behavior has been changed in EF Core. Here's how to revert it back and perform case-insensitive searches

October 15, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Today I was working with EF Core and I was implementing some IQueryable filters using this guide. When I was performing my unit tests to see if I did everything properly …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / SQL / Web

ASP.NET Core SQL Server and MySQL database logging with Serilog How to use the ASP.NET Core's built-in ILogger logging API to write application logs to SQL Server, MySQL and/or MariaDB using Serilog logging provider

October 15, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In this article we'll see how to take advantage of Serilog, a neat open-source diagnostic logging library for .NET applications, to log our ASP.NET Core web application’s data to a …