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A quick start on ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

📅 Feb 5, 2020 · 📝 Jun 9, 2020 · ☕ 8 min read

Here’s a quick introduction to Razor pages in ASP.NET core, and an opinionated way to quickly start building applications using Razor pages. And yes, there is a case for using Razor pages even in 2020. So.. ASP.net? Yes, indeed. I have had a love-hate relationship with ASP.NET through years. I am way less productive using ASP.

Free Excel Template for Scrum Projects

📅 Jan 29, 2020 · 📝 Mar 17, 2021 · ☕ 2 min read

Excel is the only program you need to survive in IT. So, how about a template for tracking tasks in an Agile Scrum project? Why Scrum? If you are looking for the answer on why agile / scrum - You are in the wrong site That is well beyond the scope of this post In short: Scrum is a framework to run your project using Agile methodologies.

New theme for Saber.land - Beautiful Saber

📅 Jan 26, 2020 · 📝 Apr 30, 2020 · ☕ 2 min read

I played around with Saber.land a bit in the past week and it’s been amazing to work with. Mix Vue with static content in .md files Templates that I understand and love Use .md or .html files for content Easily bring some “dynamism” to the static pages - conditional rendering, use variables and so forth I mashed together a few design elements and created a new theme called “Beautiful Saber”.

Use Packages Locally Without Publishing Them

📅 Jan 22, 2020 · 📝 Jun 15, 2020 · ☕ 2 min read

How can you use packages being developed locally in other projects - without publishing them to npm repository? NPM Packages Make Life Exciting NPM makes it really easy to create packages and reuse them across projects. I am not even talking about big, useful libraries like Vue, Loadash etc. - just the routine problems across our projects.

A story of company case studies and API testing

📅 Jan 15, 2020 · 📝 Apr 30, 2020 · ☕ 3 min read

#rant that none asked for. I came across this whitepaper on testing micro services. I clicked on this link because I am writing microservices now but I am fairly new to microservices. I did a mistake that I have repeated 1593 times in the past. The said link was a resource by one of the big IT service providers.

Automatic Dynamic Sidebars in Vuepress

📅 Jan 8, 2020 · 📝 Sep 17, 2020 · ☕ 6 min read

How can you get automatic sidebars to be generated in Vuepress depending on the page? The Situation Vuepress is simple. Being simple is rather difficult. In the case of Vuepress, the difficulty can show up in unexpected places. Starting with Vuepress is simple enough. Equally simple is enabling navigation on your site at multiple levels through a “sidebar” and/or a “navbar”.

Refer Project Folder from NPM Package

📅 Jan 1, 2020 · 📝 Apr 30, 2020 · ☕ 1 min read

You can refer to other files/folders using a simple require or using basic node libraries. But, how can you do that with npm packages? The Problem When creating a bunch of Javascript files, here’s what you can do to refer other files - 1 const awe = require("../plugins/awesome.js"); This fetches awesome.

Summary of Posts

📅 Jan 1, 2020 · 📝 Jun 9, 2020 · ☕ 1 min read

This is a summary of the site that lists categories, tags and what not alongside the number of posts. Not quite useful for anyone other than the publishers.

Fastify and its plugins are great

📅 Dec 25, 2019 · 📝 Apr 30, 2020 · ☕ 3 min read

I had been meaning to use more of Fastify for work, but only made that a reality recently. So far I have had a great experience on the server framework. What is Fastify? Fastify is a low-overhead server framework built on top of NodeJS. Fastify was started in late 2016 and jumped to v1.

npm run does nothing at Svelte startup

📅 Dec 18, 2019 · 📝 Apr 30, 2020 · ☕ 2 min read

I was getting back to Svelte for a small project and ran into a strange issue. npm run dev did not run the svelte app as expected - no output or errors. First I create a new project. 1 2 3 4 npx degit sveltejs/template awesome-project-1 cd awesome-project-1 npm i npm run dev And, I get greeted with nothing.

Enable SSL for your VPS using VestaCP

📅 Dec 11, 2019 · 📝 Apr 30, 2020 · ☕ 2 min read

VestaCP is an easy to use control panel. You just need to know where to go for what! The Problem SSLs are de-facto standards for web applications of today. How can you enable SSL for your own web app, preferably for free? The Solution I am no Unix Guru and for the life of me, cannot enable domains, mails, etc.

Using Vuepress and other stories

📅 Dec 4, 2019 · 📝 Aug 29, 2020 · ☕ 9 min read

I am a big fan of Vue and cannot breathe without static sites. So, it is only natural that I play around and implement Vue-based static sites for fun and profit. Here’s a distilled-down version of my experience with Vuepress. The Situation I create static sites that are “real” websites. Typically the following factors in a static site generator help -

Simple Site Summary in Hugo

📅 Nov 25, 2019 · 📝 Apr 30, 2020 · ☕ 3 min read

Here’s a simple way to organize your taxonomies and have a bird’s eye view of the number of posts per category/tag in Hugo. The Problem As techformist.com grew, I became more and more disorganised in maintaining taxonomies. I had some interesting situations - a “static-site” category coexist with “static sites” category confusion b/w why I chose a few terms to be tags rather than categories in their own right the recurring need to “rethink taxonomy structure” depending on the flavour of the month and time of the day This often required me to go back and change a few taxonomy terms, or to reorganize site structure in order to provide better visibility to chosen topics.