Jenya Y.

Web UI widget

This is sort of the second part of the post I wrote [https://blog.jenyay.com/building-javascript-widget/] a while ago about building JavaScript widget. To my surprise, I received a lot of valuable feedback and some questions on how to deal with some specific

Serverless

Practical rules for serverless functions

Gartner predicted [https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/top-trends-in-the-gartner-hype-cycle-for-emerging-technologies-2017/] a few years ago that by now Serverless PaaS will reach its plateau of productivity. If you try to search which cloud providers have Serverless offering, you instantly get a feeling that we are there -

JavaScript

Building JavaScript widget

Widget is a sort of SDK or client of your service that other site owners embed on their websites. At the minimum they consist of JavaScript code and, if there is a UI part, HTML with CSS. Different widgets do different things, but the

IoT

Detecting mood of coworkers in an office using Cognitive Services

With a recent developments in image and video processing it became a trivial task to add a relatively intelligent features to an application. Almost all cloud providers offer today easy to use Machine Learning APIs which allows to perform visual recognition without Computer Science

.NET Core

Swagger security trimming of end points in ASP.NET Core application

TLTR; If you need to hide endpoints in Swagger UI based on authorization token, here is the repository [https://github.com/jenyayel/SwaggerSecurityTrimming] with demo for .NET Core app. The relevant parts are passing HTTP header [https://github.com/jenyayel/SwaggerSecurityTrimming/blob/master/src/

.NET Core

Running ASP.NET Core in Heroku

After running relatively critical application in multiple environments (staging and production) for a few months and building another one, I'm confident with saying it is possible and reasonable to run .NET Core app in Heroku. The Why While probably the most natural

IoT

Install "Home Assistant" as Windows service

Home Assistant [https://home-assistant.io/] is automation platform for home written on Python. It allows to connect a whole bunch of devices and create rules to perform automated tasks. For Mac OS and Linux there are instruction [https://home-assistant.io/getting-started/] on how to

IoT

Detecting available toilets using Raspberry Pi and Azure services

My first "real" IoT project I've been experimenting with Arduino and RaspberryPi for a while. I got a pretty decent collection of sensors, LEDs, basicly everything that can be plugged to GPIO. But I didn't have a chance

for me

Per environment configuration in Aurelia

The objective is to have environment specific configurations embedded into application during build phase. Those usually endpoint for API, logging level, etc. > This is not specific to Aurelia [http://aurelia.io/], but can be applied to any JS client applications with gulp tasks

for me

Using Nuget, npm, bower and github behind corporate proxy

This was surprisingly time consuming to have all those function properly behind the proxy. Two important tricks that makes things works were: 1. Drop SSL/TLS from registries endpoints (I assume you're aware of consequences when doing such thing) 2. Do not

SignalR

SignalR GlobalHost and DependencyResolver

TL;DR When you register dependency resolver with SignalR server, avoid using GlobalHost to retrieve instances of hubs. Tracing SignalR server What helped me actually to figure it out was tracing information. Like explained here [http://www.asp.net/signalr/overview/testing-and-debugging/enabling-signalr-tracing] , to

Sharepoint

Enumerate fields names in SharePoint's list

I'm often hitting this issue - get as fast as possible all field names within specific list. There are a lot a ways to perform such task - SP Manager, SP Designer, Object Model and so on. But they all are not

Deployment

SharePoint 2010 deployment within Visual Studio

SharePoint 2010 comes with a great set of tools for development. The development process in previous versions of SharePoint was totally abandoned. Now we have project templates, project items, menu items and deployment configurations. Moreover, MSDN has a really nice series of articles [http:

Sharepoint

Unpublishing SPListItem

In Document Library you can easily take the most current approved or major version offline by calling to method . This is because each of Document Library has a property , a reference to SPFile, which represents the document itself. So no problem here, you have

Sharepoint

EditorPart inside modal window

I never liked a default behavior of EditorPart (toolpane) of Sharepoint - it moves all page content aside and pushes EditorPart on right side of the screen. It looks like this: It gives a very small amount of space for EditorPart itself. If you

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