.NET Development

Reading very large gzipped json files in c#

This is a little code snippet that I often find quite handy. It's a piece of c# code that opens a gzipped json file and iterates through the items in it. Since it takes it piece by piece (as opposed to loading everything in memory) it's can pretty much handle files of any size.

.NET Development C#

May 31 2020

Free online course - C# and .NET Core introduction

The best way to learn coding - and in particular c# and .NET Core - is to code. CodeArt is proud to make all the teaching materials to a newly created course online and freely available for self-study.

.NET Development C#Life as a Coder Tech Talk

March 20 2020

Packages restored, but your project is still missing references?

Here is a classic error that happens to me a lot. It's extremely simple, yet sometimes I find myself spending too much time trying to remember what it is that goes wrong.

.NET Development Addon Development C#

March 9 2020

Annotate The Web - Collaborate with comments about websites

As a little experiment I just launched a basic annotation service, that let's you put comments on screenshots of a web page in order to collaborate during creation.

CMS Vision Demos & Prototypes .NET Development

February 26 2019

FB2PDF - How Abandonware Gets Distributed

A long time ago I did a small weekend project to fix a problem my wife was having with her e-reader. I shared it on my blog and then forgot all about it. Until now, that is.

.NET Development

October 27 2018

Admin Mode Plugin to Manage Content Type Suggestions

If you have a site with a lot of different content types, it can be a good idea to help Episervers Automatic Content Type suggestion feature along. Here is a basic Admin mode tool - in good old webforms (yes, I washed my hands after I made it) that will let administrators / and super-editors configure exactly which content types to suggest when.

Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)CMS Addon Development .NET Development

October 12 2018

Auto Tagging Using Search

You don't always have to go the full AI route to get AI like results. In this blog post I'll describe an approach I've used several times (and for multiple purposes) with pretty decent results. Instead of classification algorithms, deep learning or neural networks I'll just simply query my favorite search engine.

CMS Vision Demos & Prototypes Tips and Tricks Information Retrieval ElasticSearch AI .NET Development

October 7 2018

Storage Performance Aftermath - ElasticSearch Joins the Fight

In 3 previous blog posts I compared various azure storage technologies with regards to performance and scalability in typical web usage scenarios. I was actually done with the series, but with all that interesting data, I decided to throw my current favorite search/storage/no-sql technology into the mix to get an idea about how it all compares. So - ElasticSearch enters the competition!

Azure C#ElasticSearch .NET Development

October 2 2018

Azure Storage Performance Showdown (Post 3)

This is the 3rd post in my Azure Storage Performance comparison. So far we've examined the typical scenario of storing/retrieving data that most dynamic websites of today deal with. In this post, we'll take a closer look at Update and Delete - and finally review the financial aspects.