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18 January / / Dev working
If you want to get better at something you need to know what areas to improve on. Most developers will have a list in mind of the new technologies or techniques they want to spend more time on to improve on, but what about the day to day things you work on. The first is to measure, to get stats on some of the areas you work on. It’s similar to an athlete.
17 January / / .Net Core / Web

An Azure WebJob allows you to run a background job in the same context as you App Service. The job can either run continuously or triggered (manually triggered or on a schedule).

08 January / / .Net Core / Web
13 August / / SQL / Azure

I was recently converting a website to have a responsive design using Bootstrap. The content is served from an Azure SQL database and I needed to make a copy of the database so I could update the content in a test environment first.

12 August / / .Net Core / Web

Localizing content in MVC is straight forward with the use of .resx files to either annotate your data models or referencing the resources directly. But accessing the localized resource from within JavaScript code can be a little bit fiddlier.