Writing a DocFx markdown plugin

What is DocFx? It’s a static site generator mainly used for creating API documentation for your code. But it can be used for any static sites. We use this for the Lucene.Net project’s website and…

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Finding success in OSS

I’ve been working in open source for quite some time and wanted to share some of my experiences in regards to managing OSS projects and communities. I’ve been employed by Umbraco, an open source .Net…

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Configuring Azure Active Directory login with Umbraco Members

This post is about configuring Azure Active Directory with Umbraco Members (not Users), meaning this is for your front-end website, not the Umbraco back office. I did write up a post about Azure AD…

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Deploying to Azure from VSTS using publish profiles and msdeploy

In almost all of the examples online about how to deploy various services to Azure, they always list the super easy way to do it and that is to authenticate your current account to your Azure…

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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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Smidge + Nuglify bundling, minification and source maps

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Introducing ‘Smidge’ – an ASP.NET 5 runtime JS/CSS pre-processor

During the past month I decided to dive deep into learning ASP.NET 5, and what better way to learn than to start a new OSS project :) I chose to make a new new simple and extensible Javascript/CSS runtime pre-processor for ASP.NET 5. It does file minification, combination and compression, has a nice file caching layer and it’s all done in async operations. I ported over a few ideas and code snippets from CDF (client dependency framework) but with a more modern approach. I’ve called it ‘Smidge’ = something really small.…

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Using AspNet5 OptionsModel

If you’ve used AspNet5 then you’ve probably been using some MVC in which case you’ve probably seen something like this in your Startup class:// Add MVC services to the services containerservices.AddMv…

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PetaPoco may cause high memory usage with certain queries

If you are using PetaPoco, or NPoco (which seams to be the most up-to-date fork of the project), the title of this post might be a bit scary… but hopefully you won’t have to worry. This really depends…

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A problem using sIFR for menus that link to databound forms in IE7

This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.This is quite possibly the most interesting/ann…

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