Articles

• Github Pages offers HTTPS for one custom domain. However you can point more than one domain to your pages (with caveats).

  Apr 30, 2020

  Back in 2018 Github began to offer free dedicated certificates on Github Pages. This was achieved by teaming up with Let’s Encrypt, a certificate authority that provides free SSL/TLS certificates. Before that, if you wanted to serve your site through HTTPS you had to use a service like Cloudflare, point your domain to its name servers and enable HTTPS through its interface. 

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• Jekyll blog posts in their own sub URL

  Apr 9, 2018
  When rolling out a new blog, you can put all blog posts under their own sub URL.

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• Parallel.Foreach with ordered output using arrays

  Aug 1, 2014
  One of the problems I've recently had was to process a collection of data and return the outcome of each processing in another collection. To utilise the multiple and/or hyper threaded cores of the machine that executes the processing, I've used the Task Parallel Library.

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• Umbraco 6 and ASP.NET Web API

  Nov 28, 2013

  Umbraco 6.1.0 has introduced support for the ASP .NET Web API. We’ll see what kind of support is currently offered, its shortcomings and how we can improve it.

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• NUnit Test method code snippet

  Nov 28, 2013

  This is if you don’t use Resharper. Suffices to say Resharper’s Live templates are much easier to create and update but Visual Studio code snippets are an alternative option.

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