How to lazily set the multi-term rewrite method on queries in Lucene

For wildcard queries in Lucene that you would like to have the results ordered by Score, there’s a trick that you need to do otherwise all of your scores will come back the same. The reason for this…

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Articulate 3.0.0 has finally arrived

It’s taken me forever to get this release out, mostly due to lack of time, but it’s finally here! Huge thanks to many community members who helped with this release, here’s some shout outs – THANKS!…

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Using IExceptionLogger with per-controller IControllerConfiguration in WebApi

There’s plenty of examples online about implementing a custom IExceptionLogger globally in WebApi and I’m sure they all work as expected but what if you don’t want to register it globally? In that…

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Umbraco passwords and ASP.NET Machine Keys

This blog post is the result of a thread on Twitter which starts here: https://twitter.com/crumpled_jeavon/status/880522105795870720 and works its way into confusion. Suffice to say I can’t answer…

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Smidge + Nuglify bundling, minification and source maps

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OWIN Cookie Authentication with variable cookie paths

By default OWIN Cookie Authentication let’s you specify a single configurable cookie path that does not change for the lifetime of the application, for exampleapp.UseCookieAuthentication(new…

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Umbraco CLI running on ASP.NET Core

Over the past couple of years I’ve slowly been working on getting Umbraco to run on ASP.NET Core. Unlike many other ASP.NET frameworks and products that have rewritten their apps in ASP.NET Core, I’ve…

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FCN (File Change Notification) Viewer for ASP.NET

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Smidge 2.0 alpha is out

Over the past few months I’ve been working on some enhancements to Smidge and have found a bit of time to get an alpha released. There’s loads of great new features in Smidge 2.0! New Features…

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ClientDependency 1.8 released

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