When doing development work on a Mac sometimes the process won’t close down correctly and will end up locking a port which will provide an error when you try and start it up again. In order to kill a process on a specific port you first need to get its Read more
As part of the current project I’m working on we’ve got a service which offloads some email send tasks to a background worker running in Hangfire. Creating the BackgroundJobClient directly in our service was throwing errors and didn’t allow us to test that it had actually been called so we Read more
When we were refurbishing the house a year ago we added a couple of ANNKE C800 cameras as well as an ANKKE NVR to record and manage them. However it turns out that the NVR is a piece of crap with the web UI only being accessable via Internet Explorer. Read more
I got the below error when trying to start a newly scaffolded web app. The target process exited without raising a CoreCLR started event. Ensure that the target process is configured to use .NET Core. This may be expected if the target process did not run on .NET Core. This Read more
Adding healthchecks to your APIs is generally a good idea as it can provide some useful information about the status of your services. There’s a lot of good guides about how to do this including the offical Microsoft documentation but there’s fewer guides on how to set up your own Read more
There’s a few APIs available which allow you to provide an IP address and to retrieve details back about it including it’s aproximate location. I was previously using ipstack for this but their free tier is pretty poor as it only provides 100 calls a month so I moved over Read more
RestSharp has recently released a major new version with a lot of breaking changes. One of the things to change was custom authenticators which now seem to be less obvious to use. The documentation suggests creating a custom authenticator by inheriting from IAuthenticator but this doesn’t seem to work and Read more
I’ve started to learning about Docker and as part of that process I’ve initially been trying to just deploy a simple test API to a locally running Docker container. In order to get a basic proof-of-concept site up and running I first created a new ASP .NET Core Web API Read more
I’ve just changed roles and it turns out I now need to learn some Scala for a project migrating an internal app from a Scala backend to a .NET Core backend. This project currently builds on a Mac but I figured I’d try to get a grip on how to Read more
I was previously hosting this site on a WebApp instance in Azure but partly due to cost reasons I decided to migrate it over to AWS. There’s a variety of guides available to help with parts of this but nothing that covers the full process so I figured I’d try Read more