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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more