Code Archives - Rich Stokoe

Announcing: Better .NET Templates

Posted on December 30, 2023December 30, 2023 by rich

The default .NET templates have become advertisements for new .NET features and are no longer fit for teams to use to build well-architected, maintainable solutions with good design patterns.

So I’ve started to build my own.

Deconstructing the New Inner Loop for Single Page Applications (SPAs) in .NET 6

Posted on February 7, 2022July 11, 2023 by rich

Microsoft’s two major development platforms, .NET Framework and .NET Core, have converged in .NET 6, with major changes to .NET SPA web application development. You can hit F5 and be confident that everything just works, however, I couldn’t help spending some time digging into what’s going on under the hood… Forewarning: I’m going to ignore […]

A Shortcut to Continuous Delivery

Posted on September 27, 2020July 15, 2022 by rich

“Continuous Delivery” is a concept in software development where updates to IT products are promoted to production on a rapid cadence. Each organisation and industry is different, but delivering changes at least once a day is a commonly accepted definition. While there are obvious risks to releasing code at such a frequency, continuous delivery enables […]

Can you make a Raspberry Pi Security Camera?

Posted on December 30, 2017July 15, 2022 by rich

This weekend’s geeky challenge: Making a Raspberry Pi Security Camera. TL;DR – Here’s a basic, practically-ready-to-deploy, open-source Raspberry Pi security camera. Brief Mostly because I’m cheap (but partly to reduce the scope and therefore increase chance of success) I added a few constraints: Periodic still image capture is OK (streaming video will be tackled in […]

Running an ASP.NET Core 2.0 app on Raspbian Stretch Linux on a Raspberry Pi with HTTPS

Posted on December 10, 2017July 15, 2022 by rich

Today’s challenge: Serve a public API over HTTPS from a Raspberry Pi. I’ll follow up with an article about containerising the app and running it from docker on the Pi. This article is a fast-paced guide to getting started without stopping to dwell on the details. Some details will be mopped up in the last […]

aspnetcore.dll failed to load. The data is the error

Posted on July 8, 2016July 8, 2016 by rich

This morning, while trying to debug our big ol’ web project in Visual Studio 2015 I encountered a problem – it held me up for a while so I wanted to quickly blog about the solution in case it hits you too. When hitting F5 to start debugging, Chrome launched but then immediately Visual Studio […]

Things I learned at my last job

Posted on March 11, 2016March 11, 2016 by rich

Today I closed a chapter in my life. After nearly 4 years tenure at a company I wanted to reflect on the things I learned over that time. I have been very lucky to have a few excellent – world-class even – mentors here who have taught me things that will stay with me for the […]

Introducing QuickModules for ASP.NET MVC

Posted on August 11, 2013August 13, 2013 by rich

Like you I often spend my weekends writing REST APIs for fun. And like you I am often frustrated by the amount of server-side code I need to write just to expose some data to JavaScript. Boilerplate, boilerplate, boilerplate. Ugh! So this weekend, in between bouts of erratic and unsatisfying jetlag-sleep, I decided to try […]