tech - Grant Winney

Jun 14, 2019

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Minification vs Obfuscation

Mozilla announced they'll no longer accept extensions with obfuscated code. It's good news for users, maybe not so much for developers. Obfuscated code is (intentionally) nearly impossible to understand, and could easily be malicious. Let's unpack and break down a few concepts....

Jun 05, 2019

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CodeFactor, Uploading Images via REST, and the Ghost Admin API v2.0

I finally wrapped up (for now) a little side project of mine, a C# wrapper around v2.0 of the Ghost RESTful API. I call it GhostSharp, and it's available on GitHub and NuGet. It covers the entire Content API as well as the 4 stable endpoints of the Admin API....

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May 21, 2019

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Keeping your GitHub code secure

GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket just released a joint statement on a widespread ransomware attack that resulted in compromised accounts. That got me thinking, what can a person do to protect his or her code on GitHub? As it turns out, a lot......

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May 16, 2019

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How to modify a config file in Erlang

I was tasked this week with writing an escript to modify an Erlang config file. All I needed was to read it in, make a couple updates, and write it back out. Should be easy, right? Please make it easy Erlang. No? Of course not... this is Erlang after all....

May 04, 2019

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Running Windows XP in VirtualBox

Just got an MSDN account, which always comes with some old treasures (hey, beauty's in the eye of the beholder). Take a trip back with me, to the days of Windows XP, the beginning of the .NET Framework, and even further... ;)...

Apr 15, 2019

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How to use an application config file with a .NET Standard app and NUnit 3

Porting .NET Framework code to .NET Standard has been a learning experience, with some challenges too. This time I had a .NET Standard library that expected an application config file, but loading one from an NUnit test suite proved to be more difficult than it sounded at first....

Apr 10, 2019

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8 Tools Every Developer Should Know and Use

You learn a lot doing a decade of anything... techniques, approaches, tools. If someone asked you what the top 10 tools were in your field, what would you tell them? Here's my top 10 list for software development....

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7 Results tagged on "tech":

Minification vs Obfuscation

CodeFactor, Uploading Images via REST, and the Ghost Admin API v2.0

Keeping your GitHub code secure

How to modify a config file in Erlang

Running Windows XP in VirtualBox

How to use an application config file with a .NET Standard app and NUnit 3

8 Tools Every Developer Should Know and Use