My group has been doing a lot of REST API consumption lately, and our favorite tool to use for that is the terrific RestSharp library. Our latest project is very large, and uses lots of different APIs, and so we needed a way to create many different client classes that could consume many different APIs but still use common features like caching and error logging. And so, I present to you, the Ultimate RestSharp Client! In this post, we'll build... Read more >
We're working on a large project which consumes a custom-build API, and one of the requirements of this project is that if the API goes down, certain sections of the website still need to be able to function. The reason for this is that our app consumes a lot of APIs and services, and occasionally a non-critical one will go down (for maintenance, bugs, whatever) and we don't want our site to crash as well, since this was a problem... Read more >
NOTE: This is the final part of a three-part series demonstrating how we might model the classic game Battleship as a C# program. Part 1 is over here. You might want to use the sample project over on GitHub to follow along with this post. Also, check out my other posts in the Modeling Practice series! With all the components and setup taken care of in the previous part of this series, it's now time to finish our system and... Read more >
NOTE: This is Part 2 of a three-part series demonstrating how we might model the classic game Battleship as a C# program. Part 1 is over here. You might want to use the sample project over on GitHub to follow along with this post. Also, check out my other posts in the Modeling Practice series! In the first part of this series we discussed how to play a game of Battleship and what kinds of components and strategies we would... Read more >
NOTE: This is Part 1 of a three-part series demonstrating how we might model the classic game Battleship as a C# program. You might want to use the sample project over on GitHub to follow along with this post. Also, check out my other posts in the Modeling Practice series! In software development, often we programmers are asked to take large, complex issues and break them down into smaller, more manageable chunks in order to solve any given problem. I... Read more >
I've long been missing an important feature in Ghost, my blog publishing platform: there's no inherent feature to create a post archive, or a list of all my posts in one place. I've gotten several requests for this feature, so I finally decided to just sit down and develop it using the Ghost Public API and a tiny bit of jQuery. What follows is how I built my post archive the first time around. I have since replaced it with... Read more >
