Internet Information Services (IIS) – Quick Start

Introduction IIS is a well known software to deliver websites on Microsoft windows platform. You can use it to delivery static contents, ASP .NET Web applications or ASP .NET Core web applications. It have many other features e.g. it can limit the exposed public surface area of the apps that it hosts. Also, it can … Read more

Local Logins using ASP .NET Core and JWT

Introduction Some line of business (LOB) applications or internal systems have predefine set of users and corresponding login information. In situations like those using a database mechanism to store user information is an overhead. Combine this overhead with Microsoft’s heavy duty implementation of Identity framework with persisting roots in entity framework, you have a recipe … Read more

Dynamic C# Introduction

Introduction C# is generally considered as a statically typed language. However it also offer very useful dynamic capabilities which comes handy in certain situations. In this post I will give you a very basic introduction of dynamic C#. Why Dynamic C# There are many reasons why you would like to use dynamic C# capabilities. Few … Read more

Key Linux (Bash) Commands Table

Command Description whoami outputs the username hostname outputs the computer name ls -l  outputs the long list of directory man ls Show manual cat /etc/issue outputs the distribution and version (ubuntu) pwd print working directory cd / To navigate into the root directory cd or cd~ To navigate to your home directory cd – Navigate … Read more

Deploying .NET Core, Angular and Postgres Web Application on Ubuntu (nginx)

Introduction In this post, I will be deploying and running a .NET Core, Angular and Postgres application on an Ubuntu VM running in azure cloud. This involves different tasks in different technologies to be done and I’ve previously written few posts about these different topics. In this post, I will combine all those learning so … Read more

Use NGINX to Serve .NET Core, Nodejs or Static contents

Introduction NGINX is a high-performance HTTP server as well as a reverse proxy. Unlike traditional servers, NGINX follows an event-driven, asynchronous architecture. As a result, the memory footprint is low and performance is high. If you’re running a Node.js-based web app, or .NET Core Web Application, you should seriously consider using NGINX as a reverse … Read more

Building Charts using C3.js

In this post, I will show you how to build charts in your web application using C3.js reusable charting library. Introduction C3.js is D3.js (D3 = Data Driven Document) based JavaScript chart library. It is simple to use, customizable and provides a nice API. It can be used to create visualizations using SVG, HTML & … Read more

Combining Linux Bash Commands

Introduction In few previous posts on Ubuntu and Linux commands, we saw few of the useful commands. In this post, we will learn few more Linux commands and also learn how to pipe these commands together to build a powerful customized tool from small simple building blocks. But before we start combining/piping commands together, lets … Read more

Ubuntu Bash and More Linux Commands

Introduction This is the 2nd article in this series. In previous article, we saw how to install ubuntu and started with some basic commands. In this post, we will continue our journey and learn few more commands to widen our knowledge. There are lot of Linux command and you may be using some more than … Read more