This blog post serves as an abridged summary of the below getting started guides for TypeScript and VS Code and is presented in the shortest possible form: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/la...
OWIN - Mapping Attribute Routes (Web API 2)
So last night I was playing around with OWIN and a small self-hosted application that made use of WebAPI 2. Everything was working fine until I tried to make use of the [RoutePrefix("")] and [Route...
Getting started with SQLite and Entity Framework
I am starting development on a ROM File management project that requires me to break my ties with SQL Server and IIS (I will cover the IIS portion in a later post) to make the application more acce...
*.NDS Rom Info Scraping (C#)
I am starting a small ROM management project to help me keep my various ROM backups in order and make searching for a specific backup easier. I decided it would be a good idea to programmatically e...
Pong - Update 2
Following on from my last post I have made some minor tweaks to my pong game, and have addressed some of the issues that I picked up during the first phase of development, namely: Made use of t...
SQLite and Dapper in C#
In this article I am going to cover the basics of running SQLite and Dapper in a C# console application. There is a lot of code below which may be highly opinionated (so please bear that in mind wh...
Pong (or my first attempt at JS game development)
Ever since I was a little boy, I have always been fascinated with computer games and the way they work. How someone could wield a bunch of 0s and 1s into some of the games that shaped my childhood....
Singleton Pattern in TypeScript
Below is an awesome singleton pattern implementation I found deep in the bowels of StackOverflow using TypeScript (adapted from my favourite C# implementation). This works well if you are wanting ...
Adding Castle Windsor to your WebAPI project
This post is meant to serve as a simple guide to get you up and running with Castle Windsor in your next WebAPI project. First you will need to install Castle Windsor - open up the package manager...
Simplest way to access POST data after model binding (Web API)
I am currently in the process of writing a C# wrapper for Kik and needed a way to dump the raw POST body when their service made a callback to one of my WebAPI controllers (after model binding had ...