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Azure App Service - Pros and Cons Advantages and drawbacks of MS Azure App Service, a fully managed HTTP-based PaaS for hosting Web Applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends

March 16, 2022March 29, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

if you've stumbled upon this post you most likely already know MS Azure App Service: a fully managed HTTP-based platform for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding

EMail Address Validation in C# and ASP.NET Core A lightweight and customizable helper class to validate any e-mail address using the HTML living standards RegEx and/or ASP.NET Core built-in validators in C#

March 10, 2022March 11, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Validating an email address is a classic requirement of almost any web application. Most of the modern client-side and server-side web frameworks provide native methods to fulfill this need: however, …

Hardware / Linux / Operating Systems / Tools & Utilities

Linux - Resize-Extend a disk partition with unallocated space (CentOS, Ubuntu, VM) How to resize/extend a disk partition, logical volume and filesystem of a CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian Linux VM using built-in tools and without the need of a reboot

March 1, 2022March 1, 2022 - by Ryan - 3 Comments.

Expanding disk partitions to use all the available (unallocated) disk space is a common issue among Linux Administrators, expecially when working in a VMware-based Cloud environment. This often happens when …

Exporting & Importing App Pools and Websites configuration between multiple IIS instances

Coding / Tools & Utilities

IIS - IP Address and Domain Restriction Export How to export the IIS IP Address and Domain Restriction settings in a human-readable txt file with PowerShell

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you're a web administrator and you often work with Internet Information Services (IIS), you most likely already know about the IP Address and Domain Restrictions, a great built-in feature …

Coding / DevOps

GitHub Error GH001: Large files detected - FIX How to fix a common GH001 GitHub error that doesn't allow the user to push because of files being too big

December 17, 2021December 17, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you've stumbled upon this post, there's a high chance that you are dealing with a nasty GitHub bug that can happen when you try to push a commit that …

Cloud / Cyber Security / Data Security / Privacy & Compliance / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities / Web

Office 365 Backup: do we really need it? Office 365 is (mostly) a cloud-based service, but it doesn't mean that your data is automatically safe

December 17, 2021 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

By reading this line, you might be tempted to ask for the following question: "Why should I back up these data? Isn't Microsoft already doing this for me?" As a …

ASP.NET / Coding / Servers & Services / Web

HTTP Error 500.30 - ASP.NET Core app failed to start - Solution How to fix the HTTP Error 500.30 - ASP.NET Core app failed to start when publishing an ASP.NET Core Web Application to IIS

November 30, 2021November 30, 2021 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

If you've stumbled upon this post, it most likely means that you've just published a new ASP.NET Core Web Application on a Windows web server using Internet Information Services (IIS) …

The Missing Link: A Beginner's Guide to Building Quality Links

Business innovation / Business processes / Cloud / Coding / Cyber Security / Data Security / Privacy & Compliance / Process management / Servers & Services / Web

Smart Working and IT Security: how to have both A list of tasks to perform to provide Smart Working capabilities to a typical organization while keeping a good security posture

November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If there is anything that the COVID-19 pandemic has taught the world, it is the fact that smart working is the future of companies and organizations working in services. A …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding

C#: Should we still use #region blocks? My two cents about StyleCop's SA1124 "DoNotUseRegions" rule and why I still (rarely) use #region blocks

November 18, 2021September 3, 2022 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

In this post we'll talk about #region blocks, the C# preprocessor directives that let the developer specify a block of code that can be expanded or collapsed when using the …

Android / Applications / Coding / iOS / Linux / macOS / Tools & Utilities / UI, UX & Layout / Windows

.NET MAUI Multi-Platform Framework explained A brief introduction of .NET MAUI, the new Microsoft cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you're an active mobile app developer you might have already heard of MAUI, the new multi-platform framework announced by Microsoft during the 2020 edition of Build. In this post …