Category: Software Development Tips & Tricks
SAS Style Secure Links: Now with more Bit Shifting!
SAS stands for Shared Access Signature. A SAS style link is a URL that contains parameters needed by the API call as well as a signature that verifies the parameters in the link are correct and haven’t been tampered with. These links can be made to expire, and the key used to create the signature…
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Coding with AI: How to Get the Results You Actually Want
You can’t talk about software right now without talking about AI or, more accurately, LLMs. These are helping us write software faster. But can they help us be much faster? The common way they help us is by autocompleting code for us. I start writing a method called upsertUser, and then the AI will automatically…
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Getting Started with Monorepo
In my previous post, I covered my quest to build a shareable component library, using Vue 3. In this post, I will cover taking the current library and turning it into a Monorepo that can handle multiple libraries with Lerna. Prep the Repo To this: Note: You have a package.json file in the root folder…
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My First NPM Package
What follows is my quest to build a sharable component library using Vue 3. A project came along that required a way to share components between two Vue projects, but that was also supposed to lay the foundation for using some of the same components across more projects in the future. As this is a…
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The Struggle with Vue and ASP.NET Core
There is a wonderful template in Visual Studio to create a FullStack application that serves Vue 3 as the frontend and .NET core as the backend. Microsoft even provides a tutorial on it. But as usual, once you want to customize, things get complicated. I’ve spent hours trying to understand why I could not change…
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Mocking Email Addresses for Testing
Many people I’ve talked to know how to find a dummy credit card number for testing. And if you don’t, here’s a link: https://docs.stripe.com/testing Fewer people that I’ve talked to know where to find dummy email addresses, and this info was more difficult for me to find online. If you’re working in a legacy codebase…
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LINQ Functions in C# with an SQLite Database
While writing a query to filter some data from a database using LINQ, I ran into an issue. My query ran correctly, and all my data was populating correctly in the browser. However, when I went to write tests, even the simplest test gave me this error. The error is pretty simple: SQLite does not…
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Using an Access Control List to Block IP Addresses from Cognito
AWS Cognito is a very solid authentication service. We often use Cognito as an identity provider (IdP) for the applications we build. We redirect to Cognito, and then Cognito redirects back to us. Cognito gives us a code that we can use to get a JSON Web Token (JWT) to access our services. It’s a…
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How to Send GCM Messages Using C#
In my previous blog post, I mentioned how to send APNS messages using C#. In this post, I will do the same using GCM. Sending a GCM message is very similar, but in this case we will use a different NuGet package. You will need to install the FirebaseAdmin NuGet package. The first step of…
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Sending APNS Push Notifications Using C#
Over the years, we have built many mobile applications across numerous industries. One of the most common features of these mobile applications is sending push notifications. Most applications we have built have used third-party services to send these notifications. But how hard is it to send APNS notifications? It’s really not that hard. But why…
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