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I have been playing around a little with Reactive Extensions for javascript and must say that I am really impressed. RxJS a port of the .NET based version which is, as they describe it on their site, “a library to compose asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections and LINQ-style query operators.“. So what does [...]

SignalR is a library for .NET to help build real time web applications, in a way it is quite similar to Socket.IO on Node.js. It consists of three main parts: SignalR.Server – .NET code running on IIS SignalR.Js – A SignalR client in javascript SignalR.Client – A SignalR client in .NET. Useful for communicating with [...]

Occasionally i read the swedish news site e24.se. One thing that really annoys me about the site is the fixed banner they have on top of all the article pages. I decided to do something about it so i created a Google Chrome Extension that removes the banner, and as a bonus it also removes [...]

In the early days of the web, web pages were very static in content, once the page was loaded nothing on the page would change until you reloaded it. Then came Ajax and allowed us to do partial reloads of the page. During the last few years the web has evolved even more. Today you [...]

For the last decade javascript has been a language that has almost exclusively been run on the client side, in the web browser. But during the past year it seems like Javascript has found its way to the server side as well, to the joy of some developers while others wrinkle their nose and wonders [...]

First we need to install the htpasswd application, it is located in the apache2-utils package. This package has no dependencies on apache, so it is safe to install it – it will not download the full apache for you To install it on ubuntu type: sudo apt-get install apache2-utils Once installed we can use it [...]

I have been reading about this new startup that offers a service called AppHarbor. It seems very much as the same idea as Heroku for Ruby, but for .NET. The basic idea is that you deploy your code by pushing your code onto the server using Git, the server then builds, runs unit tests and [...]

Recently I decided to switch hosting provider from a shared server to a VPS. My choice of linux is Ubuntu so i installed the latest version, Ubuntu 10.10 server. Instead of using Apache as webserver, which has been my choice of webserver for years, I decided to go for Nginx. Nginx is known for its [...]

Two weeks ago I went to the EPiServer Meetup where Bartek Tatkowski talked about EPiServer and CI. This got me inspired to write about how we do CI and deployment in my current project. The site we are building is an EPiServer 6 CMS Enterprise site based on .NET 4.0 and ASP.NET MVC 2.0 (I [...]

Microsoft WebDeploy (MSDeploy) is a very useful tool, not only for deploying web sites. In this post I will show you how MSDeploy can be used as a tool for synchronizing local and remote folders and executing commands on a remote server.