Kendo DataSource: Grouping then Sorting

It seems that Kendo DataSource (and, thus, the Kendo Grid) cannot do both Grouping and…

C# Windows IoT Core Serial Communications with an ESP8266

MVC Areas with ASP.NET Core

Areas in MVC allow you to separate your web application into segments, each with their own set of Controllers…

One-Time Passwords (OTP)

Years ago, I worked for a customer who provided me with a RSA SecurID device to access their VPN. This was a…

Test Sending Email Without an SMTP Server

When working on a project, I had the need to locally test the sending and formatting of…

Enable iOS 10 Speech Recognition in NativeScript Apps

Is an 80 Character Code Line Length Still Relevant?

If you’ve spent any time reading about coding standards on the internet, you’ve probably come across the suggestion to limit lines of code to 80 characters and wondered if it’s still relevant today. The advise to limit lines to 80…

Awesome, Text-Based Diagrams with Mermaid

A picture is worth a thousand words. Plain text can convey high levels of detail, but…

Rewriting URLs to Lowercase in Sitefinity

Enforcing Lowercase on URLs to Normalize URLs