Introduction This project actually started on a workshop with a client where we talked about how to make a network share – containing documents like Word, Excel and PDF – searchable for employees and at the same time keep track of the file access control (ACL) while searching. I´m one of those who still has a NAS at home, backing up all of these thousands of images we’ve been producing over the years. There are...
Läs merSharing is caring I was cleaning up among old projects today and stumble on some image manipulation stuffs. This was used in a web application to scale images in real-time on the server, storing them on disk and serve them to the web browser by calling a url. Instead of using the Windows GDI+, the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) was used to increase performance. Even if this isn’t a new thing I did some tests...
Läs merNoSQL databases gives an interesting point of view in modern application design. There are different kinds of them and one common characteristic is that they are optimized for fast data access. For masterdata a normal choice would be a relations database, but will in some cases not perform well especially when it comes to data reading. This is where NoSQL databases comes in handy as a good complement. But they need optimized (de-normalized) data structures...
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This is about securing files in the media section in Umbraco CMS (v7.5.x). There are more than one approach to accomplish this. In this article we will take advantage of the URL routing in ASP.NET MVC to route media to a custom controller. In short we will: Create a member group and a member that will be a member of this group. Extend the File and Folder media types with a Member Group Picker property. Läs mer…
Here´s a little sunday PoC I wanted to share with you: remote control a presentation using HTML5 web sockets. Ingredients: Swipe JavaScript touch slider. Microsoft.WebSockets NuGet package. Even if it´s not actively developed and only works with Windows 8 or higher. Some lines of vanilla JavaScript and C# 😉 Client-side The client (index.html) is just some vanilla JavaScript, setting up the Swipe component, wire up events, handle progress bar and setup the WebSocket. Here´s a go-thrue of Läs mer…